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

[eschaton]

Must be my mood today lol, couldn't resist....



Silly Balmung!

[JunseiKei]

The only time I have an issue with RP (and I presume this is how most sane people feel) is when they act in a manner that lets the team down. For instance, I presume that Eyriwaen is not a White Mage in-character (because white magic is specifically restricted to very specific individuals and having your character be the unique chosen one in public RP is generally frowned upon), but that doesn't mean I'm going to unequip my job stone during dungeons or refuse to use white magic spells. I just gloss over that as gameplay/story segregation.

White mage is probably the only job that is so restrictive. Otherwise, the only other thing that would limit others in RP is who is the Warrior of Light. This was pointed out in a Q&A that there is only one WoL and they bring strong adventurers with them.

[Myrhn]

Dont like my RP? I will rescue u to dead

[Jatoi]

I am a roleplayer but honestly? I think one of the things that helped ruin it is when people try to do it in a PUG. None of this ice mage or pausing for a moment to say some in-character dialogue. The people in the PUG didn't come for RP shenanigans to get in the way of progressing through content.

[Madepossible]

If people have questions or anything about RP/ERP I can try to answer what I can. Been doing RP for 15 years and ERP for half of that (no shame). I have thought of just making a tutorial video or something on youtube at some point. . .

I do wonder how you can detect someone is RPing or not, and will most ppl stop RP in dungeons if u tell them to or are most stubborn and go dick mode? Just trying to understand how and why ppl RP and how to approach them.

[s3ystic]

Honestly no one likes talking in dungeons, RP or otherwise.
For the most part talking is pretty much reserved for anything other than playing the game. (Im not saying i condone it, Im a pretty chatty player myself; when people let me.)
Unless its private, FC or party no one really says much in this game. With discord, party chat, and voice chat options ... even less. Talking in this game just seems to irritate people.
Correction, TYPING in this game just seems to irritate people.

[Jybril]

My main gripe with RP, especially on a server that is now getting flooded with it, is people doing it in public channels. RP in your own homes, RP in LS's or FC chat or parties, but don't do it in /say in public areas filled with people. Like, I don't want to have my chatlog filled with your bad fanfic dialog while I'm trying to go about my business in town. I blacklist anyone one who uses /say for RP purposes around me, because it is unbelievably rude and obnoxious, even moreso than the RMT spambots.

You wouldn't walk down a busy street shouting some random story right in the ears of everyone around you in real life, and you shouldn't do it the game either.

I absolutely adore people chatting in public. It makes the game feel very much alive and sometimes I would sit and read what people are up to if I'm just afking/tabbing.

Also your comparison actually is terrible because I don't usually hear people SHOUTING a story anywhere.
You're READING text online and you can blacklist them. Simple and easy.

[LordTiberiusRex]

Well, bakers aren't taboo.

They just play with rolls.

Roll players, they are, but taboo... they are not.

[Espritduo]

"Don't do something I don't like". People are free to chat about whatever they want to, as long as it doesn't go against the ToS, just like you're free to just blacklist them.

That's odd. I walk down plenty of streets on a daily basis, and I'll often hear people talking to each other.

I consider people spamming my chatlog with unwanted walls of text as harassment, so yes I would consider public RP'ing to be against the ToS if we're going to be technical about it. When spambots do the exact same thing, it's against the rules, and this is no different. It's not "don't do what I don't like", since you're perfectly free to RP in private/designated places/channels and I don't mind at all. It's "don't be rude and force me to see what you are doing when I don't want to see it." It's called respecting others.

Hearing people talk to each other quietly as you pass them is very different from hearing them recite a script, badly and loudly, right next to you while you're standing there trying to buy groceries. Most people would find that very rude.

I can blacklist all day, but there are always more doing it, just like spambots. People just having the decency to keep things that other people might and probably will find annoying out of /say is all that needs to happen. If this sort of "I can do and say whatever I want in public and you have to deal with it" behavior has been "standard" for RP'ers for years, then it should be no surprise why there such a stigma around it.

Just adding something like an /rp chat mode so that only other people with the RP tag can see it would give the RP's that sense of open world RP they want without being inconsiderate to those around them. I mean SE was aware enough of the community to give them a tag, why not a chat mode as well?

[Snow_Princess]

Must be my mood today lol, couldn't resist....



Silly Balmung!

looks like you are dressed for some epic role play , in all seriousness:

You remember being in middle school where doing something different made you weird/strange/outcast? Yeah, that's all there is to it. The majority of people will never grow up.

I don't think there's anything wrong with RP. It exists on all servers, and to some extent a lot of people do it naturally when creating a character. People make fun of hardcore RPers because people make fun of anyone different to them; they speak in character or make fanart of their characters, therefore they must be bad at mechanics or something. The two are completely unrelated. Light teasing is fine but some of the comments slamming people for daring to have fun make me cringe, and I'm not even on an 'RP' server myself.

I also don't think there's anything wrong with ERP though people should keep it to their prearranged groups and not prance through the streets of Ul'dah soliciting random strangers, a stereotype which has sadly fed into the bad reputation Balmung has attracted, largely unfairly. A few crazy people with no boundaries spoil things for those who play just to have fun.

^ those and for me, i don't care what people do. I find it strange someone is having a mini fit over seeing rp as they walk past people, let people be, why does it bother you?

I consider people spamming my chatlog with unwanted walls of text as harassment, so yes I would consider public RP'ing to be against the ToS if we're going to be technical about it. When spambots do the exact same thing, it's against the rules, and this is no different. It's not "don't do what I don't like", since you're perfectly free to RP in private/designated places/channels and I don't mind at all. It's "don't be rude and force me to see what you are doing when I don't want to see it." It's called respecting others.

Hearing people talk to each other quietly as you pass them is very different from hearing them recite a script, badly and loudly, right next to you while you're standing there trying to buy groceries. Most people would find that very rude.

I can blacklist all day, but there are always more doing it, just like spambots. People just having the decency to keep things that other people might and probably will find annoying out of /say is all that needs to happen. If this sort of "I can do and say whatever I want in public and you have to deal with it" behavior has been "standard" for RP'ers for years, then it should be no surprise why there such a stigma around it.

Just adding something like an /rp chat mode so that only other people with the RP tag can see it would give the RP's that sense of open world RP they want without being inconsiderate to those around them. I mean SE was aware enough of the community to give them a tag, why not a chat mode as well?

Ok but it isn't harassment. It is different because people are sending you a tell, asking you to violate the tos, if i sent someone a tell about where to go to find a paser, like that parser thread that was recently deleted, you be flagged for a ToS violation, not because they find it as "spam"