What is your view on RP or ERP and why is it so taboo within the community?

[Hestzhyen]

I personally strongly dislike RPers because I've had bad experiences with them- annoying macros, refusing to break character when they were matched into a dungeon even if it hinders everyone, generally low quality of play from them too. And if you politely ask them to stop spamming the chat with their Super Unique and Cool text, they'll either ignore you or stay IC to berate you. Like come on, I can't mute just you since the feature doesn't exist and I still want to communicate with the rest of the party. Throw me a bone here and just use /echo if you want to see your special snowflake text without spamming the party chat with it. I don't care what people do or how they play the game in pre-made parties or in the overworld, but if you get matched into a group instance, keep it to yourself.

I've overheard serious RP running around towns and such and that doesn't bother me at all. I like seeing people creating stories and rich experiences for themselves. But don't /tell me, don't solicit me, and for the love of god don't stay IC in a dungeon if it means annoying the other three people with you.

[Galaktica]

I have no problem with RP or ERP at all. Just know there's a time and a place. Using party chat in 4-man content is not the right place. Using party chat in 8-man content is not the right place. Using alliance chat in 24-man content is you just being absurd.

I'm fine with people RPing around cities, but again, there's a limit. No one wants to read your 600 line back and forth about how much you and your SO love each other or w/e. Take that somewhere else or don't be surprised if you try to contact me one day and find out that you're blocked.

[Taika]

Using /say to roleplay or just chat is not considered "spam".

Why would you use say chat for it, though? If you're roleplaying with someone, wouldn't it be better to tell or use party chat to not bother others? To me say chat is about comnunicating with other players in proximity about things that are right there (like asking questions of nearby NPCs or talking about a FATE that just happened), not for personal discussions between certain players.

[Nezerius]

Why would you use say chat for it, though? If you're roleplaying with someone, wouldn't it be better to tell or use party chat to not bother others? To me say chat is about comnunicating with other players in proximity about things that are right there (like asking questions of nearby NPCs or talking about a FATE that just happened), not for personal discussions between certain players.

You mean like the others that they RP with, that they are in proximity with, y'know, that are right there as well? If you want to ask questions, or talk about some kind of FATE (?), wouldn't you be better off using shout chat, for a better chance at getting said questions answered?

A lot of roleplayers like something called "walk up RP", which means RP that happens spontaneously. Someone walks up to your character and starts interacting with the RP that's going on, which would be annoying if everything has to go through party chat. If you're that bothered by this, just blacklist them and move on.

[ErryK]

I am pro-RP and ERP, but within reason. I don't believe it's taboo, it's just something that other people don't indulge in.

[Taika]

You mean like the others that they RP with, that they are in proximity with, y'know, that are right there as well? If you want to ask questions, or talk about some kind of FATE (?), wouldn't you be better off using shout chat, for a better chance at getting said questions answered?

A lot of roleplayers like something called "walk up RP", which means RP that happens spontaneously. Someone walks up to your character and starts interacting with the RP that's going on, which would be annoying if everything has to go through party chat. If you're that bothered by this, just blacklist them and move on.

I meant that if I start chatting with another player(s) I would do it in private chat because othetwise I would feel I'd be hogging the public channel for my personal use. But this is not something that would bother me personally, since there is no public RP on my server.

[Arutan]

Rp is not a crime. ERP is because I don't fu***ng want to see a child being **** by a Roegadyn. Thanks but no. Just like most people wouldn't want to see anyone do it in public IRL.

[Driavna]

I don't care as long they don't disturb my playtime, in the same way, I don't disturb their RP. Having people dropping a wall of text in a common area is annoying because will force me to turn off /s (or use block), similar to people spamming emotes or skills. About ERP, just keep it private.

[Alteiriaa]

RP is neat! So long as you aren't bothering anybody with it (like randos in dungeons.) then it's perfectly fine.
ERP though.... I'd rather not see it? Like if you are doing it in your own house/in party chat then obviously nobody'll know, and that's fine. If I catch you doing it in MY house or in the cities publicly and loudly though I'm reporting you to the GMs. Nobody needs to see that lol.

[Rakiria]

The whole "keep it in private" thing is just frankly not that possible sometimes... If you say keep it in party chat: you have to keep inviting / leaving parties to join in to some people meeting up at the bismark. To use a linkshell means anyone who is in that linkshell but not there still gets the messages,and you'd have to leave the whole linkshell instead of walking away a little, and don't even start having two groups rp at different places because that would be just too confusing. In fc chat you would very likely be disturbing someone much more easily than in /say as not the whole fc might rp at that time and someone doing a dungeon foe example still gets all the messages, as fc chat is used for other things than rp even in fcs that soley rp.
Now with /say, you can just walk away or ignore it. I honestly don't get why you even let /say show in your chatlog if you don't want to hear things other people talk about. It's NEVER important things. Like shout chat in limsa. And if you say you want to be able to communicate with multiple people without forming a party or linkshell, while all being in the same area, congratulations, you got it!
Then there also is one more thing about the visibility of /say. We, as RPers, WANT to be seen, and for others to know we are here, especially on non-rp servers. We want to find other people enjoying the same things as us. You can tell us to look for people having te rp status up but most people who rp just use that while actually doing rp.

Now, one more thing about erp. I don't care if people do it in the game in general, but it should really be somewhere where nobody can notice. If you do it in your own house (squints at old roomie who erp'd in my house in /say) go ahead! Using /party chat? No prob x'bob tia! Standing in the middle of the quicksand fully clothed sending each other /tells? I couldn't care less, as long as i can't know what is going on between two consenting adults! Hell, even if the only ting you do in this game is erp with catgirls, as long as you're not rude about it, just do whatever you want!