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

[HyoMinPark]

People role-playing doesn't bother me. The only place it would bother me would be in duties if it was actively hindering progression. But if people want to role-play (tastefully) in public, I don't care. I generally have /say and /shout filtered out of my usual chat log I use anyways. People can ERP too if they like, but I would prefer it remain in private and behind closed doors, just like real life intimacy. I certainly don't judge others for engaging in activities they find enjoyable in a game that they pay to play. I've done some light role-playing in the past myself, so it would be hypocritical of me to judge others for it!

[Bourne_Endeavor]

People role-playing doesn't bother me. The only place it would bother me would be in duties if it was actively hindering progression. But if people want to role-play (tastefully) in public, I don't care. I generally have /say and /shout filtered out of my usual chat log I use anyways. People can ERP too if they like, but I would prefer it remain in private and behind closed doors, just like real life intimacy. I certainly don't judge others for engaging in activities they find enjoyable in a game that they pay to play. I've done some light role-playing in the past myself, so it would be hypocritical of me to judge others for it!

I would certainly hope! Otherwise you have been leading me on all this time!

What people do with their own time doesn't concern me unless it actively harasses other players. I roleplay irregularly these days, but it's a fun little side hobby to partake in, especially during long patch droughts. Same stance on ERP. You do you, boo. Just keep it out of say and occasionally miss tell in the novice network so we can all snicker (this happens. It's amusing every time).

[Cerbolt]

I don't mind people rping, and as long as they're being respectful to others I'm not going to try to stop them. We all play to have fun right?

[Ametrine]

I USED to RP, both within FFXIV and outside, but the whole thing started to degrade into something uncomfortable and manipulative. I recall the old term was called "God-modding," essentially overpowering story threads and characters and forcing the entire thing to a certain direction without initial discussion or planning. It ain't fun, and for some reason I kept getting into sets where either I was being modded or was given way, way too much say, and I was basically writing the whole thing.

BUT. I don't really care if others RP, and I left the major RP servers since it stopped being a fun task for me. RP should be private, ERP especially, and I find it annoying, too, to see a wall of say text in a public of players RPing, but I don't think it's report worthy unless inappropriate.

[dinnertime]

I like roleplayers. I love how active the Balmung community is because of them doing events and stuff. I'm not a roleplayer myself but I write stuff about my characters and I appreciate what some people have done with theirs.

As for ERP, I don't really care as long as people keep it to themselves. Some E/RPers however take RP so personally, not separating RP from reality and that has caused countless drama.

[Johaandr]

Well i RP but im being "myself" if ya know. Like my character is my personality irl. Dunno if i should call that for rp. But i call it for RRP(real role play). Id like to think my character evan is kind of a alter ego of me irl in a virtual game like this.(if it even made more sense).

Well ive been giggling reading all of ur experience encountering rps in dungeons xd i would say they r kind of bit extreme xDd.
I only see myself as the hard hitting stone whm in dungeon without doing any emotes xD being self confident of my work and com people i think did a good job. Even in raids i joke alot. So.. uh.. mayby i dont rp but being myself? Dunno but yh

[Clethoria]

It, like a lot of things, is only a problem when it's being forced onto someone who ain't about that life.

As a cat, people tried to solicit me for that shenanigans and it was actually irritating to find out someone didn't want to be my friend for me as a person, but for their ERP sessions to which I wanted no part of.

As for RP, it's triple annoying when someone's character is made to be bratty and rude and they act like that to everyone because it's their "character."

[BillyKaplan]

Going over more of this thread, I think one of the biggest problems is that people don't know where to draw the line between OOC and IC. I've seen fc drama caused because someone couldn't keep their character's dislike to another character from affecting how they, the player, acted towards that other chara's player. People really need to keep those things in proportion.

To anyone saying city-state rp is spam - it most certainly is not, are you kidding me? It might be long messages and there're a lot of them but it's content. It's not someone spamming an emote or, some worse things I've seen, sound bits. It's content some people might not wanna see but it's really not spam o.O I'd be hella confused if rping went against the ToS in an mmorpg

[LunaFaye]

to me it doesn't matter as long as it isn't in my face. Of course if it's an RP server that I joined, I shouldn't be complaining, that's my own fault even tho it might have been not marked as such. But if it's on an server, that is not known for RP then it should be kept to tells/linkshells/company chats and not the regular zone/say chat. Same for ERP, I don't care what people do in their free time, but again keep it out of Zone/Say chat otherwise there's always the chance that some players will get reported, and GM's actually do take action in these kind of cases, especially if there's ERP on Zone chat.

[PArcher]

I don't know anyone who really cares about the people who do *real* RP (as in, know IC vs OoC times, have done research and stuff like that. Are serious about it and all), its the people who do it to annoy others (macro every GCD with text, Ice Mages, and so on) that are the issue.

And ERPers doing their thing where others can be affected. /tell /party /linkshell, lock the house you're using, something to keep it private or don't do it.