No character collision so its not rude, its doesn't cause any effect.

haha.

Why would anyone be offended? It's just a bunch of pixels on your screen. It's not you, it's an in-game avatar. If someone doesn't understand it, then maybe it's time to seek a professional help. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying roleplayers are insane. In fact it's the roleplayers that understand PERFECTLY what "in character" and "out of character means"... And that no action done IC does or should affect you in any way OOC. In this case to most players other avatars are pretty much transparent, unless you have or want to interact with them.

What next? Killing people in Cyrodiil is rude? Shall we flower our enemies with cherry blossoms? Also, do note, that all the bosses in trials are EXTREMELY rude, they should just have a tea and chat with us while trying to convince us to their cause and just.. move away if they fail.

I can understand things that are really annoying, like pets interfering with your interactions or people leaving trash in harvest nodes (they respawn just fine, but you run for a chest or plant and find lockpick or worms), but just riding/walking through a character? There is no interaction ever possible. Well, unless it's plain trolling, but that's a whole other thing.

TBH. I'd rather not hear rude "your mom" jokes and not see people picking on noobs and going full hostile in zone chat.

And, most of all, it's an MMO not a single player game. Most people are here to grind, kill and repeat the same boring, mind numbing stuff over and over again.

PS. Good to see most of the forum dwellers see things the way I do.

tommalmm wrote: »

I can understand things that are really annoying, like pets interfering with your interactions or people leaving trash in harvest nodes (they respawn just fine, but you run for a chest or plant and find lockpick or worms), but just riding/walking through a character? There is no interaction ever possible.

Honestly, it is all part of the same thing. Running through people, leaving stuff in resource nodes, pets in the banks that block people, teabagging in Cyrodiil. Different levels, to be certain, but all part of the same thing. Where people draw the line, and why, really tells a lot about individuals, and what people think of that tells something about the community they are part of.

A person who modifies their behavior in a social situation (that is, when others are around) to extend consideration to another player, especially when they don't have to, says something different than a person who doesn't. The cognitive understanding that the player is in a social situation, and is thus willing, or not willing, to apply social courtesies and consideration to those around them, speaks volumes about the individual.

It really doesn't matter whether you are pixels in a game or standing on the sidewalk in New York. Social is social.

Fortunately, most of the people in the game do seem to favor avoiding collisions. This is, after all, a learned response in a social setting when two people meet. We don't normally run around our local city mowing down people on the sidewalk. At least, I hope we don't have many people like that in the game or the forum. Most people have learned that by the time they are old enough to play this game.

I would be interested in finding out how many people mutter "excuse me" when they accidentally run into someone in the game, even though that person cannot hear them. This is also a learned behavior in a polite society, and one that an increasing number of people in the real world seem to have not learned.

Now, I do want to clarify, as the above could sound like running through someone is some sort of a capital crime. No. Almost everyone realizes that we can run through other players, and there are many times when we must do this. This is why we can run through other players, after all. It happens. It should be allowed to happen.

Hard choice... It's not rude to run over another player, but it looks more realistic if you don't...

It's especially fun to do to people RPing. Second only to mud balling them.

I think this is exactly what I looked like when reading this thread:

LOL

I walk around other players, but I don't have a problem with other players walking through me.

i suspect most of the players who hit the red button generally see it as a tiny effortless courtesy, and also recognize it as a "no harm, no foul" situation. i usually do the sidestep if i'm not in a hurry or otherwise distracted. if i voted blue (i'll find out once this posts) it's because i was reading strictly to the 'rudeness' part of the question. the folks who are coming in and saying it's so offensive and whatnot are probably pulling people's chains, for the most part. the internet's original definition of trolling was to pretend to sincerely adopt a non-sensible stance, which requires some subtlety to get a response, and i think that's what i'm seeing here.

the people who are flying off the handle about "OMG i can't believe people these days are such babies!" are being classically trolled, and are showcasing their own over-sensitivity (barring those who are counter-trolling, which is rare in a forum with identities). that's a shame because it makes it obvious that they intend to come across as tough and realistic but are instead coming across as gullible and soft. if your jaw dropped at a passionately red comment, that "snowflake" got your goat.

When I see people in the crown store I'll try and guess where I can stand to be right behind them and just stare. Sometimes I do random emotes. Sometimes I get on my mount and stand inside them. I know I'm rude.

Rude? What's rude is NPC's pushing you out of the way. Even when you are on your horse!

When I see a mounted player coming at me, i always instinctively move out of the way, have done that in all MMOs.

Ignoring people is always rude.
When you see someone doing quests near Bruma or Vlastarus etc you should stop and kill them. Don't let people to feel lonely.

I do it on purpose...