As soon as I see the word 'RP', I immediately clicked in and checked everything out.
I had a burst of joy when people are finally accepting RP into this wonderful community, but then... There's all that degradation of others in the OP.
Sure, clans/guilds/factions can specialize/focus on whatever they want, be it Strategus, Ninja (the style, not the faction), Knighthood, Banditry, or whatever, those still contained certain RP elements into it. Girl's Generation killed RP? I don't know, their appearances in game would have surely obliterated my immersion, but then don't trolls do that, as well? (Wow ho, hang on a second, I'm not saying the Girl's Generation Faction are Trolls!)
Allow me to rephrase that.. Trolls killed the RP for me, not factions themselves, unless it was SNSD's intention to troll with a forum thread creation page? We may never know