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

[Hestzhyen]

FFXIV is marked as teen... The current on going ERP on some servers would fall under the R and/or Ao category which ffxiv needs to be marked as, if we are allowing these kind of things in regular chats from now on.

It was already posted ITT but the ESRB does not rate player interactions. It's outside of their purview, and it's impossible for devs to control what people say - people always, always, always find ways to express themselves with what they have. So if you see ERP in public channels report them and hope they get moved or warned by GMs since that kind of stuff is not okay to share with the world at large, but don't be dumb and think that a few knuckleheads typing obscene things into /say or /shout is a good reason to ban everyone under 18 from playing the game. That's what an M/AO rating would do. Almost everyone ITT has said that ERP should be kept private, regardless of how they personally feel about it- we don't want anyone of any age to be subjected to whatever stupid erotic fantasies someone is acting out if they didn't agree to be part of them.

Also, you know, XIV's community is pretty mild... kids who play PvP games like LoL or CS (or even just watch others play) have probably seen and heard more than you think.

[Lyrai_Celestine]

The current on going ERP on some servers would fall under the R and/or Ao category which ffxiv needs to be marked as, if we are allowing these kind of things in regular chats from now on. Sorry.

Mhmm. For one who does get into proper ERPs in private, I think we all fear one thing: For the internet to notice FFXIV as a place full of slutty people. We do not want officials to stain FFXIV's social reputation, let innocent kids encounter a situation they should not see, and people who publicize acts of Eroticism through public chat is going to hurt everyone. Such act can potentially have a bigger impact than they might think... as such we must play our part in keeping the community clean and stable, and not be afraid to stop anyone who attempts to ERP in public.

[dinnertime]

It's weird to me how ERP is treated like cybering using avatars instead of telling a story about characters in an erotic fashion.
I see why people dislike it, especially when they make ERP so personal and how they indecently approach people for it.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

It's weird to me how ERP is treated like cybering using avatars instead of telling a story about characters in an erotic fashion.
I see why people dislike it, especially when they make ERP so personal and how they indecently approach people for it.

I see what you mean, and I agree with that, in a way... the thing is, though, you're never sure of what the other person has in mind... So yeah, I think, for some, but not all ERPers, it's p*rn, and that's what's shocking, for people, I guess... There are also people that don't see the "art" in erotism and think sex is just sex... And they're somehow comforted by the few ERPers that do it in /say and are often the most... "excited" ones.

[RichardButte]

ERP, like sex, should be done behind closed doors.

I mean, the game has private housing AND apartments so there's literally always somewhere people can go to ERP in private if they so choose.

That said, anything people want to do behind closed doors is no one else's business.

[Burmecia]

Until I meet dumbass who is 24/7 in rp mode and "lightning mage" because of that, I find fc recruiters in towns biggest nuisance in this game. Not that variation which silently spams every free sprout with invite, but the variation which spams in /shout. Real nice to walk around towns, especially in Chaos, when there is GER and FR recruiter outshouting each other every minute...</vent>

Roleplayers are cool, so is roleplayinv. I guess there still exists people who try to bully other for that but... dude, it's mmoRPG. It's videogame. Can't get much more nerdy than this and it's aweaome. Live and let live. In some circumstances I could consider myself rper too, tried to attend few user held events too when I stumbled on opportunity, but unfortunately I found those sort of things bit awkward. (But when I realised that is not my flavour of sport? I thanked them for event and left peacefully.) Most of ERP people tend to be masterful at keeping their IC so that not everyone has to read that. If that is not courteous I don't know what is.

[Reckion]

Roleplaying, per se, is fine. I absolutly have no problema with roleplayers at all. Actually, most of them, I've noticed, are kind lovely people who love the world they are playing in. Not to mention they usually have the best glamours in this game :P . Unless those RP'ers are forcing others to join it, or ruining other people's enjoyment of the game, I don't see the problema of it. There are RP servers and it is a MMORPG.

ERP, on the hand... I don't understand it. And the ERP'ers are usually the ones who force others to be part of their circle jerk in such a rude way. Maybe the ERP'ers I've found were a vocal minority, but I don't understand it still ahah.

[Cenerae]

My general experience (as an RPer mind) is that very, very few RPers make an effort to aggravate other players. If anything, it's usually the other way around, with a non RPer deciding to troll the daylights out of the RPers (which is very rare, but does happen).

I'm not saying that all RPers are sunshine and rainbows, because just like any playerbase, it has its share of unpleasant people. But most of us want to just be left alone to do our thing. I don't really see how using the chatbox could bother people, unless you make the unwise decision to RP smack in the middle of say, all the people clustered around the Limsa market boards.

As for ERP, you only really see trolls and immature people doing that in the open. Everyone else has the grace to keep that stuff private.

[NinjaTaru72]

I love RP. although I'll never do it myself, I find it highly entertaining to catch random rpers going on in random places in the world. Ive even had a few funny RP people in dungeons.

What bugs me and most people that are bugged, I believe, is having to deal with erp.
I believe that's what puts such a sour taste in peoples mouth about RP in general.

If you wanna erp that's fine, have fun. But please, do it in your guild house, or your apartment heck, set a dungeon to undersized unsynced and erp with your friends in there.

[The_NPC]

no real comment as I have rarely ran into ppl who RP (I knew 1 person but they changed servers a bit ago) the idea seams noval, like walking past a street preformer in RL, if u like it u stop & watch/join if not u move on. ERP is an acrynom I did know about till I kinda "had to" (figure out what it ment, not actually do it), personal opinion now... its can be like reading an adult book or playing a 2D game, definetly can get u'r mental gears going, thus giving u "material" for later, but would sujest it not be in open-world as u never know WHO may randomly wander apon it & maybe get offended (like letting u'r kids use u'r PC but forgeting to active the parental settings... try explaining that away later)