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

[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!

[Averax]

There's literally an entire server the community has dictated to be "the RP server". People don't have a problem with it in general.

Like others have said, when people bring it into pugs when we're all just there to complete whatever duty and get out is when it gets irritating. You don't need to macro every single ability to say something edgy unless it's some sort of "i just used an important cooldown" indicator. Especially ninjas, and you know why.. You also don't need to bring your character's fears and flaws into a duty and make it more difficult for everybody.

As for ERP... pretending to have "intimate moments" in a T rated video game is weird no matter how you try to sell it. Don't do it in public.

[Clethoria]

As for ERP... pretending to have "intimate moments" in a T rated video game is weird no matter how you try to sell it. Don't do it in public.

Think of it as like actual public space. It's perfectly normal to talk, hold hands, laugh and joke. But its not a good thing and pretty illegal to have sex. Some people do it for the thrill and the taboo. Doesn't make it right.

[Naunet]

You'd be hard pressed to find a roleplayer who would disagree that ERP shouldn't be in public chat. Generally people who do that are shunned by the majority of the community, and we even report them ourselves.

But reporting someone simply for roleplaying in /say is frivolous, and SE frowns on frivolous reports.

[Aylis]

You'd be hard pressed to find a roleplayer who would disagree that ERP shouldn't be in public chat. Generally people who do that are shunned by the majority of the community, and we even report them ourselves.

But reporting someone simply for roleplaying in /say is frivolous, and SE frowns on frivolous reports.

Yeah, I mean SE created the RP flag so RP'ers could easily get together, most of the games QOL features are designed with RP in mind, its easy to see SE loves RP'ers. Despite my opinions against FFXIV I've always told people that like RP that this is the place to go. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that won't admit FFXIV is a RP'ers dream come true. SE more then likely is just gonna toss reports against RP'ers in the bin. Save for the extreme public ERP displays like you said but that's another story.

More so for the OP..

I was an rp'er back in 1.0 and my take on ERP has always been "don't ask, don't tell, keep it in private and behind closed doors". ERP can happen and be kinda fun if done right. By right and this is when it can be taken to the side of being taboo and frowned on. The question being "Is their a reason on a RP level for the ERP to even happen?" Its the difference of the characters being in a long term relationship that suddenly took a deeper meaning where ERP can be valid. To the wrong side of what amounts to a character just standing half naked in the Quicksands wearing a giant "F*** Me" sign around their necks. Or the ones who are just as bad and choose to go right to out of character for it. The "looking for cyber" players I blacklist without a second thought.

[KoroushSensei]

i just use the rp status because i think it looks cool

[Zaene]

Man, I rped in the golden age of rp which was AOL chatrooms, as such, rp has come quite a long way obviously. Admittedly, I don't do very much of it at all recently, but I had some fun in a fc that did back in 2.0. I think people should be free to do it when they want how they want to. It's a great mode of self expression, and though reading through this thread I see examples of not so great usage, i.e. "This is my original the character do not steal, he's edgy and a jerk so I'm a jerk to everyone." That's not cool, and causes unnecessary drama.

As for erp...
I'd say do it somewhere where people aren't.

[Laurawrzz]

If you wanna RP, go for it. Whatever makes you happy as long as you're not getting in other people's way. No complaining here. However, ERP should be saved for quiet areas and the tells. I don't want or need to see that.

[Zarabeth]

This whole thread makes me happy I'm on Leviathan. I've never had anyone pull the rp in dungeons crap, and if I did I'd probably just leave. I don't mind RP at all as long as it isn't interfering with getting things done. As to ERP, keep it to yourself and your partner(s). You wouldn't want to be walking along in a mall and see people having sex in the aisles.