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DISCLAIMER: These are the ramblings of a relatively new, generally inexperienced player. Please feel free to correct me on any facts that I get wrong. 
ISCLAIMER
For a long time now, the rift between PVP and RP has been growing. Notice that I say PVP and RP. Nowhere does factions fit in. Factions for a long time now, at least in my opinion, has been seen as generally synonymous with PVP and separate from RP. Here's the google definition of Faction.
fac·tion
[ˈfakSH(ə)n]
NOUN
factions (plural noun)
While this definition of factions doesn't exactly apply to minecraft factions, note "group" and note "politics." The larger group here is massivecraft, and because massivecraft is not an organized entity, discounting staff, it would be better to refer to factions as Kingdoms, and I will do so in this thread.
Factions is more than PVP. It is the simulated development of society through different mediums; talking, PVP, RP, building, trading, etc. Minecraft is MORE than a game. No game is really, "just a game." Every game forms unique connections, whether they be inside or outside of the game, related to the game, that are UNDENIABLY STRONG, AND UNALIENABLE FROM THAT GAME. Envision a scenario where PVP only happened 24/7, where small groups of pvpers bashed against each other regularly without any semblance of other activity nor organization. Sound familiar? Minigames and KitPVP are what come to mind, right? Now think about people building floating obsidian boxes and skilled redstoners building cannon large enough to blow those boxes to hell. Think about the trade networks alone, even in this more mindless version of factions. Now think about a themed game, where in addition to skilled redstoners and complex trade networks, we have RPers, who are really just normal people who cover themselves in another set of emotion, and PVPers, because cannon isn't needed, who are just normal people who deprive themselves of much of their natural emotion.
I ask you to remember that MASSIVECRAFT IS THE FACTIONS RPG. That both RP and PVP are essentially intertwined into massivecraft, that factions involves organized groups, politics, trade. Factions is both RP and PVP at once. There's a reason why games like WoW are still called RPGS. You play as a character in a simulated world. *cough cough* minecraft *cough cough.* By simply playing minecraft, you play an RPG and are an RPer. The idea that RP and PVP are mutually exclusive groups is preposterous. Both RP and PVP are part of FACTIONS.
Remember another thing: There's a person there, behind that screen. Each name is a person who has their own feelings. Passions. Emotions. Drives. Challenges. Each person has come here to talk and be with other people. And so you have to treat them like it. Like it or not, everyone has emotions. We are people, here at this web of false xenophobia we call present-day Massivecraft. Each person is more than a name. We are all here in Massivecraft. If everything is deleted, we are still Massivecraft players.
I will ask you a question:
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FACTIONS?
This is a question that the people of Massivecraft have come to regard as PVP. But if you look around the internet, watch videos, play different kinds of factions for yourself, I think that you'll come to find that the purpose of factions is TO BE THE VERY BEST FACTION, whether through PVP or RP. They are only different mediums to express emotion.
People won't remember what you said, or what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel. And understanding the simple concept that Minecraft is more than a game, that Factions is more than PVP, is important to creating a feeling that people won't ever forget. The REAL Massivecraft experience.
ISCLAIMERFor a long time now, the rift between PVP and RP has been growing. Notice that I say PVP and RP. Nowhere does factions fit in. Factions for a long time now, at least in my opinion, has been seen as generally synonymous with PVP and separate from RP. Here's the google definition of Faction.
fac·tion
[ˈfakSH(ə)n]
NOUN
factions (plural noun)
- a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics:
"the left-wing faction of the party"
- a state of conflict within an organization; dissension.
synonyms: infighting · dissension · dissent · dispute · discord · strife · conflict · friction · argument · disagreement · controversy · quarreling · wrangling · bickering · squabbling · disharmony ·
disunity · schism
While this definition of factions doesn't exactly apply to minecraft factions, note "group" and note "politics." The larger group here is massivecraft, and because massivecraft is not an organized entity, discounting staff, it would be better to refer to factions as Kingdoms, and I will do so in this thread.
Factions is more than PVP. It is the simulated development of society through different mediums; talking, PVP, RP, building, trading, etc. Minecraft is MORE than a game. No game is really, "just a game." Every game forms unique connections, whether they be inside or outside of the game, related to the game, that are UNDENIABLY STRONG, AND UNALIENABLE FROM THAT GAME. Envision a scenario where PVP only happened 24/7, where small groups of pvpers bashed against each other regularly without any semblance of other activity nor organization. Sound familiar? Minigames and KitPVP are what come to mind, right? Now think about people building floating obsidian boxes and skilled redstoners building cannon large enough to blow those boxes to hell. Think about the trade networks alone, even in this more mindless version of factions. Now think about a themed game, where in addition to skilled redstoners and complex trade networks, we have RPers, who are really just normal people who cover themselves in another set of emotion, and PVPers, because cannon isn't needed, who are just normal people who deprive themselves of much of their natural emotion.
I ask you to remember that MASSIVECRAFT IS THE FACTIONS RPG. That both RP and PVP are essentially intertwined into massivecraft, that factions involves organized groups, politics, trade. Factions is both RP and PVP at once. There's a reason why games like WoW are still called RPGS. You play as a character in a simulated world. *cough cough* minecraft *cough cough.* By simply playing minecraft, you play an RPG and are an RPer. The idea that RP and PVP are mutually exclusive groups is preposterous. Both RP and PVP are part of FACTIONS.
Remember another thing: There's a person there, behind that screen. Each name is a person who has their own feelings. Passions. Emotions. Drives. Challenges. Each person has come here to talk and be with other people. And so you have to treat them like it. Like it or not, everyone has emotions. We are people, here at this web of false xenophobia we call present-day Massivecraft. Each person is more than a name. We are all here in Massivecraft. If everything is deleted, we are still Massivecraft players.
I will ask you a question:
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FACTIONS?
This is a question that the people of Massivecraft have come to regard as PVP. But if you look around the internet, watch videos, play different kinds of factions for yourself, I think that you'll come to find that the purpose of factions is TO BE THE VERY BEST FACTION, whether through PVP or RP. They are only different mediums to express emotion.
People won't remember what you said, or what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel. And understanding the simple concept that Minecraft is more than a game, that Factions is more than PVP, is important to creating a feeling that people won't ever forget. The REAL Massivecraft experience.
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