MeinMMO Demon Cortyn likes the chosen realm in World of Warcraft. However, one detail causes discomfort and the desire to never log in again.
I like my realm in World of Warcraft. “The Aldor” is the last truly active German RP realm where one can occasionally find roleplay in the open world and where there are also some larger events. Of course, RP realms have their own special kind of “specialists” who bring a lot of drama with them, but I can overlook that by now.
But there is one aspect of my realm that I find increasingly disgusting month by month:
The excesses that “Goldhain” exemplifies.
To summarize Goldhain briefly: Basically, Goldhain is the “eRP meeting point” on all RP realms. Like-minded players meet there to live out their roleplay sexual fantasies, which usually doesn’t bother anyone much, as two people can just chat in the Whisper channel. What they do is relatively indifferent to the rest of the world. This has been the case for almost two decades, and people have gotten used to it.
From the outside, it’s mostly amusing because roleplayers, including pure “eRPlers”, create a character flag. This is usually a brief description of the character, detailing aspects like appearance or obvious quirks.
What serves most roleplayers for general clarification of the character is primarily used in Goldhain to clarify personal preferences or to outline “rules” for (erotic) roleplay.
When my guild gets fed up with “Mythic+” and the current affixes, we meet in Goldhain and read each other the particularly amusing or degenerate flags. It’s typically quite funny to see how often someone manages to use the word “markelos” or “femenin” in the description of a scantily clad elf.
Alternatively, we see how many adjectives someone can assign to a character that make them seem simply “perfect” while contradicting each other as quickly as possible. A few examples: Thin, curvy, reserved, lustful, naive, smart, and fit.
However, these “reading evenings” have become increasingly less amusing in recent months and much more often simply one thing: disgusting. As a “weeb” with clearly too much anime consumption, I can really handle a lot. But more and more frequently, one reads in Goldhain in the RP flag things like:
- “Is a young, naive girl with whom you can do whatever you want.”
- “Looking for age play, preferably minors :)”
- “Little boy to do things with”
Or more clearly: There are also people who specifically seek sexual roleplay based on childlike characters.
This is obviously problematic for several reasons.
A major problem for me is the test accounts. As important as they are for letting new players try out World of Warcraft, they are terrible for everyone who thinks they don’t have to adhere to rules anymore.
The second problem is: I actually don’t want to deal with this. I have no desire to go there more often, to “search” for such flags and then report them. I actually want nothing to do with this topic and would be happy if Blizzard just sent a game master there every day to ban strictly – but with test accounts, that’s a difficulty and probably just not practicable.
There is no good solution – or is there?
Unfortunately, I also see no good, simple solution for the problem. Test accounts will not simply vanish, as that would make World of Warcraft as a whole less attractive for newcomers. Ultimately, it is also just a “small” issue that is spread across very few realms.
Actually, I could also not care – just as I have always been indifferent to what happens in Goldhain. If people are living out their fetishes in a whisper, what do I care? But increasingly, one can read things there that I can only call “pedophilia roleplay” for lack of a better word. Sometimes, you see these characters in Stormwind at the auction house, and every time it sends shivers down my spine that I would rather log out and do something else.
It feels disgusting to share a realm with such people. The thought that 99% of roleplayers surely condemn such things strictly and that only a few, bad apples exist does not help either. Unfortunately, those few are enough to cause me discomfort and make me feel that the realm is somehow “poisoned”.
We have written about Goldhain before – as nonsense has been reported there.
