> > 1. During the rites, the ragers don't all bust out of the village and start killing people. They sit there and kill each other.
> 1) Neither did the orcs. I was playing an orc (I rolled him like two weeks ago before this whole thing was announced) and I got rocked twice but didn't see any mass ownage (or any kills at all for that matter) from any of the other orcs.

My point is that the rites doesn't represent a bunch of players simultaneously rolling characters friendly to one another and then, presumably, grouping together to do all the things groups normally do. Rank, get gear, PK, etc.

> > 2. The rights aren't a big excuse for people to go all "Stevers" in-game and act retarded.
> 2) All of like 2 people I saw did that, with the other orcs calling them idiots.

Based on the logs that were posted, it certainly seemed like more than two. Also, consider that multiple players are defending "Stevers" as valid orc RP, so it follows that that's how they would play their orc IC.

> > 3. OrcFest's entertainment factor is primarily extra-game. That is to say, people enjoy (on the forums, etc.) the idea of all these retarded orcs running around. The rites are coordinated (in game) using an ooc reference to time, but that's by necessity not design.
> 3) Actually the point is just to go hang out with people with a throw-away character.

Exactly. Anything that encourages "throw-away" characters is going to be discouraged.