On the IGS recently, a character made a remark about another character. That remark was inaccurate, and I knew this to be the case, because Synthia happened to be at the event at which the alleged incident occurred, as were many other players, and a CCP event actor.
So I wrote a clarification on what did actually happen, from Synthia's point of view of the events that occurred within Synthia's line of sight.
Then, to my great surprise, I received an evemail from the character about who the remark was made, who said that they had been told, by none other than CCP themselves, that the event (an event run by a player), was "non-canon", and "never happened".
Which I found somewhat surprising.
Because this was the first I've heard of it, despite being at that event, as were dozens of other players.
Where does this leave the history that many player characters have, which includes interaction with CCP event actor characters ?
Example: Synthia interacted with several event actor characters - evemailing the Khanid Navy admiral to wish King Khanid a happy birthday. If CCP event actor actions are to be considered non-canon, then what does that mean ?
As it turns out, this is not the first interaction that I have had with characters who stated that events had never occurred. There was a previous occasion where a character stated that a particular event "never happened", because they "ret-conned it". Although in that case, it appeared to be just themselves who were "ret-conning" something, and not claiming that it was CCP who were behind it.
So, to what extent is public RP, unilaterally retconnable, by a single involved person ?
To me, the whole idea of saying "this never happened", without 100% agreement from all the people who were there, is completely alien and baffling
Redacted.
*Havo wuz herre.
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Topic: Ret-Cons of CCP actor character actions, and ret cons in general (Read 3963 times)