@Faraday said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Third-Eye said in MU Peeves Thread:
I feel like games have to do more expectation management about this with players and I’m not sure what the best way to do that is. Beyond clearly stating whether real-time or async play is the norm/what’s done by GMs in staff scenes, but it takes a while to internalize that even if people read it.
I don’t really see why this is on the games or game-runners.
I feel like this can be directly influenced by the game runners. There was a game I was playing on that, at the start, had a good mix of live vs async scenes. However the vast majority of the “plot” style scenes by the staff were async. This was fine at first, but over time live players stopped logging on and the game slowly became more async focused.
I don’t think it was intentional and it looked to me like staff was trying to support both styles. It just became a case where if you wanted plot, asyncs were largely where it was at, and if you didn’t do async, it felt like you were missing out.
I do agree the majority of players on a game tend to define the style of scenes available, but I think there are ways game runners can make their intentions felt in a way that can influence where the majority ends up at.
