In your games, did you ever join a guild, or faction? Why?
I usually try to, but the social aspect is pretty important for me. That said I don't want to be in a shitty guild. Doing top level raids and competitive pvp is important too.
Did you ever do anything like a dungeon party? Or another type of group activity? Who did you do this with?
Like a LAN party? Yeah, my friend who has played pretty much every MMO with me would bring his comp over and we'd play, my neighbor would join sometimes.
Were there any types of players you disliked? Why?
Only in Lineage II, the insanely skilled... stalkers/pkers. and sometimes the really overbearing guild leader who expects too much out of you.
How did you treat players that you disliked?
In this case they mostly spoke mandarin or korean so there wasn't much i could do. in game i just stayed in town for a while, warning people about them in chat.
How did you know someone was a 'noob'?
Usually they'll ask a stupid question or really suck at playing their class. Like they'd just be missing some very obvious element of their class.
Were there words or phrases that you used in the game that you wouldn't use with a real conversation partner?
There was a time when I was an angsty teen and playing video games where I'd use all sorts of words like bitch faggot whore all of those. I mostly used those in CS and the Specialists, an HL mod... but I never really said these kinds of things in WoW. There was one time I was on an alt and I said it as a joke when I was dueling someone. They didn't know it was me and reported me, hah.
What class of character did you choose? What features of this character appealed to you?
I usually tried to choose characters that have a diverse skill set or supporting roles. Usually these character types have interesting challenges to overcome and as a player they're really fun to play competitively with especially in pvp another favorite of mine. In Star Wars Galaxies I played a Carbineer... it had good CC but relatively weak single target capabilities. In Lineage II I played an orc shaman, again strong support. In Wow I played a druid... same deal, many talents, lots of ways to play.
Do you characters have different personalities?
I don't really think so. Through my MMO's I've usually only had one main character. Since I had stuck with each mmo for a long time (more than a year for ea) I changed over the course of that time due to real life and probably in game things. So.... just growing up.
So would you talk in real life as you do in the game?
I probably wouldn't take as in depth with game vocab. I also don't really get into competitive fights in real life like I do in pvp battles... I definitely don't use as many curse words in real life.
Did you ever roleplay in these games?
I joined a pvprp server in wow, it wasn't that interesting because i felt like i couldn't make any real friends since we were all just acting. i always laughed a little when that one dude would just explode in chat and shatter some people's rp.
What do you think of roleplayers?
it's great, i used to roleplay on these message boards.
ps I would read this if you haven't already it applies pretty well:
http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htmi have a lot of other resources like that one if you want, just send me a pm.