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

[ffchampion]

How do you even get friends in the first place with a mentality like that? Lol

Simple, i don't waste people's time when in dungeons. i talk to people when we are out of dungeons. If i'm doing a dungeon for exp/progression/weekly etc then i don't want to waste time constantly by typing. I have no problem if people would RP chat when others are loading, or after the boss is dead or when someone is watching a cutscene. but if you hold up the flow of the dungeon, that's just being a dick

[reiichi]

I have never seen people "RP" in dungeons before unless they were a full premade group for an in-character run. The common mentality I've seen the thousands of RPers I've interacted with has been "don't do IC runs when you PUG or DF or RF content. And if you plan to do an IC run coordinated on PF, put that in your description or better yet, password lock it." A significant portion of RPers are already shy or socially awkward. I'd be amazed if they even spoke in a dungeon beyond the standard "hi/hello/hey" during protect casting and "gg/bye/thank" at the end.

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

[Hestzhyen]

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

They're rare, but you never forget them when you encounter them. A friend of mine was stuck with an Ice Mage in duty (only a Guildhest thankfully, but still!), and I've asked RPers to turn off their multi-line macros of special text for abilities more than a few times. One of the worst was a SCH in World of Darkness who shouted everything to the alliance, even Eye for an Eye casts. I also met a WHM who used /emote to literally fill the chat log with "flavor text" about their imagined actions for basic skills like Presence of Mind, Divine Seal (RIP), and of course Raise... not even anything funny, just "beseeches the elementals of the Twelveswood for their blessings to hasten the granting of boons to the party blah blah blah" type stuff. It's irritating to say the least. Just keep it to yourself or in an LS/FC chat if you want to be a special person with super cool and witty text to go with your spells. Or even better... USE /echo PLEASE!

[Naunet]

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

Yeah, this is what I think every time I people use those go-to "rpers are ruining it for me!" stories. Not just because I've never encountered it myself (I haven't, ever, in all my years of MMOs), but knowing roleplay communities as long as I have... I've known people who macro stuff to their spells, but that's as "invasive" as I've ever seen.

[Jiao]

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

They're.. slightly more rare than one would believe based on the stories, but they're real. Back when Sohm Al (Hard) was current my friend and i encountered one. He didn't say a thing, no emotes, nothing. He just cast ice spells the entire run. But we're getting close to duty finder tales territory, I don't mean to derail. Just wanted to answer you. To this day, that has been the only one.

[bswpayton]

I legit don't get why ppl rate RP or ERP think its a crime. I try to understand here so I'm neutral on the matter and want your opinion about this subject.

I think most people rp to an extent, I mean Im a guy playing a female charcter think that would be rp in my book. So anyone who does that is rp as well, Erp on the other hand this is something Ive had zero experience with so I cant speak on that. But I rp just being a female warrior of light, I actually tried doing myself like some people do it just didnt feel right and I didnt enjoy it nearly as much.

[JumperX]

I think most people rp to an extent, I mean Im a guy playing a female charcter think that would be rp in my book. So anyone who does that is rp as well, Erp on the other hand this is something Ive had zero experience with so I cant speak on that. But I rp just being a female warrior of light, I actually tried doing myself like some people do it just didnt feel right and I didnt enjoy it nearly as much.

No necessarily. Some people play yhe opposite gender because theyr identify their gender identity to be that. Some people are in transition for many several reasons other people are not soing that cuz of several reason of because they consider themselves that that gender they are playing is part of their psychological imagine of themselves so not everybody do as you do. You play a female character (cuz?) and should be tagged as rp.

[bswpayton]

No necessarily. Some people play yhe opposite gender because theyr identify their gender identity to be that. Some people are in transition for many several reasons other people are not soing that cuz of several reason of because they consider themselves that that gender they are playing is part of their psychological imagine of themselves so not everybody do as you do. You play a female character (cuz?) and should be tagged as rp.

Well thats pretty obvious but a ton of heterosexual males play female characters its pretty common in mmo games. So I was very aware that some may identify as that sex but the majority just play female charterers because they like to, most characters you see in the game are mostly just straight males playing female characters. When I say this Im in no way demeaning those whom play that role because thats what they identify as.

[Avatre]

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Well thats pretty obvious but a ton of heterosexual males play female characters its pretty common in mmo games. So I was very aware that some may identify as that sex but the majority just play female charterers because they like to, most characters you see in the game are mostly just straight males playing female characters. When I say this Im in no way demeaning those whom play that role because thats what they identify as.

As bswpayton said. There are lots of heterosexual males I know(myself included) that play a female character because it's a lot easier to make them look good(at least that's what I find). And you have more options for glamour. Some of it could possibly also stem from other games where the gender you chose determined which class you could play(Ragnarok Online with Archers being able to be Bard/Dancer depending on gender for example). Though that doesn't seem like it would ever be a concern in FF.

As for the RP/ERP discussion, ERP to me is the same as full on public sex irl. It's not something that (most) people do, as they tend to keep that type of stuff in the privacy of their own homes. I know there are people that are doing it, and as long as I don't need to see/hear it, have at it(as long as you are all consenting adults). For regular RP, I see no real harm the majority of the time as long as those that are RPing know when to stop, and when others are being serious about something.

[JumperX]

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I was just adding more content to his post like saying about gender identity. Another thing I will add is that there are a lot of girls playing male characters. The only difference is that guys don't notice it cuz girls are not going out there and flirting with another person like guys tend to do when they are playing a female character. I talked to even guys and funny enough they said that they get annoyed and are tired on how many guys hit on them, but they still love playing their female character.

One thing that I noticed is that guys tend to make a good looking female character while girls tend to make a good looking male character. About the RP thing. I don't really care much till those people try to RP with me directly without taking the time to ask me if I RP (which I don't). I remember how unlucky one day I got that random two people approached me IC and started to have a ERP conversation. They just assumed I did RP and ERP because I was talking to a friend who was very active in the "RP community?". My friends don't RP with me even if they are RPers. They tell me their experience and what they work on, but I never participated so I would say people should invest a bit of time before just assuming (of course it is not all RPers doing that but the first impression impacts very strongly and stay with one the longest.)

Another bad experience with RPers. I queued for DF to do my dailies. They were all happy and greet so did I, but they were all friends and from the same server (which I didn't know till way later). They started to have a lot of text and emotes with every skills they did and even talked how they were feeling as we were going in. we didn't even get to the first boss and they killed us 5 times because the healer was very scared and was telling to their group to get out of the dungeon (roleplaying of course) and one of the DPS was "always ready" to go forward and be the brave one aka meaning going ahead of me - the tank- and pulling everything (this was my first time in the dungeon....) and the other DPS was "new" to this new job so he was "still learning his new skills" again RPing all this. I got super annoyed, and I am sorry to say that I got to type in caps and tell them how frustrating I was. My first experience in the dungeon was irritating thanks to their damn idea of making a party of three people and queue together. I told them that I would leave at least they stopped the roleplaying. I didn't sign for their amusement. After that they went quiet and stopped their little game and we finished the dungeon really fast.

As I said, I don't care much, but when they make the others game experience annoying is when they need to stop what they are doing and think on what they are doing wrong and avoid doing it because as much as they paid to play this game, I paid this game to enjoy it in a different aspect as they do.