yeah i've played on like three separate rp realms for a decent amount of time and i regularly saw people doing things like walking around orgrimmar.  the groups weren't bad if you ignored the lame rping because the people were generally pretty NICE and okay to group with but yeah, they did a lot of gay rp stuff!  ultimately, it was the lack of interest in pvp ("i just wanna quest ><") that killed it for me, though.  aside from raiding for whatever gear wowego and just seeing how much dps i could manage to do on bossfights if i REALLY TRIED, pvp was the only thing i had any interest in for like the last year and a half i played, world pvp especially.  i liked battlegrounds a lot for a while but idk after hitting exalted with all three like two times over and realizing you're just playing the same 4 or 5 types of games over and over, it's not fun anymore.

one thing i kind of miss though was the BEST type of bg match, and that was decent pug consisting of me, my priest, MAYBE a warrior friend for battle shout and just other random assistance, and then a bunch of random strangers vs a bad premade.  i looooved fighting bad premades with a healer.  it wasn't as easy as steamrolling half a fucking team people in a pug in the middle of warsong with just a priest because they lack any organization whatsoever, and then being able to camp their graveyard with two people, because that stopped being fun or challenging pretty quickly, but it wasn't as difficult as facing a legit premade.  it was JUST RIGHT.