User blog comment:The Emperor Nexus/My top 30 Roleplayers of all time list/@comment-3064571-20150422234241/@comment-3064571-20150423003926

This is why you should stray away from the role-play history from prior to your era, Pearson. You make it abundantly clear that you don't understand "pre-Pearson" role-play history very well.

1.) Pirates Online was an MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game).  It was already a role-playing game in the sense that you take on the role of a pirate.  When I say that I am one of the founders of role-play, I mean the player-created role-play.  The EITC players, and the Navy players, and the British players, and Spanish players, and French players, et al.  That is what is meant by "role-play" when I speak of role-play.  I do not mean the general fact that the game was a role-playing game.  Nor am I trying to say that I had invented (the concept of) role-play, because that would be false as well.  Why do you deliberately equivocate and misinterpret my words?

2.) I assisted in the creation of the very first EITC guild, and I also created many of some of the most well-known and most popular guilds within EITC role-play, among them are:  United Trading Co., Company Guard, and Black Officers.  Not to mention that upon my return to the game in 2010, I took Diego's The Co.  Empire guild from less than 100 members to completely maxed within a month, so you, hypothetically speaking, count that one, not in the sense that I created it, but in the sense that I gave it life and made it what it was.  Also, I took Co. Black Guard from leon and it had less than ten members in it when I did.  I maxed that guild, so you could, hypothetically, count that one, too.

So, as one can plainly see, I definitely did my part in creating and popularizing guilds within role-play, a few of them quite some time before Macmorgan's day.

3.) Macmorgan did not popularize the EITC, at all.  The EITC was popularized by Pablo Swordmaster, myself, Giratina Origin Forme, Lord Davy Menace, and Nathaniel Scurvyskull.  EIYTC role-play boomed during the 2009 GM event, "The Black Guard Cometh!".  This is actually the second time I've said that, it was in my original comment.  Shows how much yoiu pay attention to the information that you're attempting to critique and deconstruct.

Once again, you've demonstrated that you don't really understand history pertaining to role-play before your time.

4.) Once again, you're equivocating the term "role-play".  I am not referring to role-play in the sense that the game is a role-playing game.  I am referring to forms of role-play created by characters that involve concepts that may not have been actually inside of PotCO, and that includes but is not limited to:  the EITC, Navy, British role-play, SPainish role-play, French, role-play.  That form of role-paly--which, mind you, is the form of role-play you're referring to--began with role-playing as the EITC is early 2008, by Swordmaster, Menace, myself, and Giratina.  Prior to that moment, there were no role-players outside of the role-play of the game itself.  If there were, they did not popularize it and were not well known, and so are nto attributed to the founding of contemporary role-play.  And remember, EITC role-play came before SvS even hit that game.  EITC role-play was the first form of role-play to arrive in PotCO, and so is accredited as the beginning point of contemporary role-play.