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

[lokowoko]

rp is fine, erp is kinda pointless since there's other platforms you can satisfy your, er, "needs" with, ff14 isn't a sex simulator, not should be treated as such. and tbh that sort of thing should be a report-able offence in my opinion

[NoblePigeon]

I was never under the impression that RP was considered "taboo", and it's kind of stupid to think that it is.

rp is fine, erp is kinda pointless since there's other platforms you can satisfy your, er, "needs" with, ff14 isn't a sex simulator, not should be treated as such. and tbh that sort of thing should be a report-able offence in my opinion

...Why should it be a bannable offense to be doing things that's privately done (hopefully, anyway) between people? Not everyone ERPs just for the sake of getting off to it.

[lokowoko]

...Why should it be a bannable offense to be doing things that's privately done (hopefully, anyway) between people? Not everyone ERPs just for the sake of getting off to it.

if it's a bannable offence it will encourage more people to do it privately, since it won't be reported if it's amongst themselves, and would only get reported if they decided to erp in public areas, as it's no secret that some people do erp in public chat/areas

[Teppie]

if it's a bannable offence it will encourage more people to do it privately, since it won't be reported if it's amongst themselves, and would only get reported if they decided to erp in public areas, as it's no secret that some people do erp in public chat/areas

Definitely agree with that. I've been ERPing for at least 4 years at this point, never been reported. Why? Because it's among friends and closed circles. Never bring it up where it's not welcome, ever. If people don't want to engage in it, it's not my place to force them in a position where they have to.

[basketofseals]

if it's a bannable offence it will encourage more people to do it privately, since it won't be reported if it's amongst themselves, and would only get reported if they decided to erp in public areas, as it's no secret that some people do erp in public chat/areas

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

[Rokke]

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

its the balmung bogeyman lol

[ColorOfSakura]

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

99% of the time, the people who are "ERPing" in public are trolls that are being jerks just to make roleplayers bad. There are of course those exceptions, always, but more often than not, they're not actual roleplayers.

The problem is, when non-RPers see these people - they tend to just figure that they're normal roleplayers and have no idea of boundaries, so it leads to a lot of rumors about how RPers are.

Again - there are still actual roleplayers who are just creepy and gross and choose to ERP in public around people, but they're such an incredible minority of the overall community.

[Lissandra]

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

I've seen it once on Balmung and I hope I never do again. They were at a camp not too far from the aetheryte. I went along my merry way of course, because I didn't want to be subjected to erp in /say text.