Quote Originally Posted by Mneme
I've almost bought that once or twice, I actually managed SW: Galaxies for about 2 months before I realized that getting to write the story meant - being left the bloody hell alone to explain your sad little wanderings in any way you could. Not making a story, not participating in other players stories and them in yours... but just coming up with an excuse for wandering around killing the local equivalent of rabid badgers.. and feeling great when I could move on to something as dabgerous as the local dogs. And at anytime the powers that may be in your given world will swoop down and tell you "no, this is not the story... the official story for this expansion means now"... and having to completely re-write it in my head. Not that anyone would care, since everyone's wandering around doing exactly the same thing. Making your own story should be cool... it really should. I've just yet to see it actually implemented. Your story never affects the world it's in... so it's just a justification.
Good point. You really can't effectively implement your own storyline. You can live it yourself, but none of the scenarios you set up can be played out (unless your storyline involves random slaying of pathetic monsters), and unless you are really frelling popular in the game, there's no way you'll be able to get others to play it out with you. And let's face it, people are jerks, so even if you did get a large group together to play out some awesome plot sequences, there'd be jack@$$es who came in to spoil the fun.