Gridania is Dead (and other talk)

[Brigandier]

I just find it stupid people complain about roleplay full stop.

Setting aside the fact it's right there in the genre name, if a player is so offended by roleplayers' /say output, why the hell haven't they blacklisted the people doing it? If roleplayers are anything, they're consistent enough in their playing habits for a blacklist entry to be worthwhile.

As someone who has 90ish people blacklisted from /say RPing from when it was really heavy, I can tell you blisting people gets old fast. I also like how you go on like it's some huge act of laziness on our part, when RP'ers could just as easily have their furry fantasies in /linkshell. Why should potentially dozens of players /blist you, when you could do your deviant crap in private? The only answer to this I can come up with is you do it for attention, probably to cope from your father abandoning you as a small child.

Then again, you might think if people were so horribly offended by roleplay they might have the passing interest to make a quick check for that and all - seriously, '"Final Fantasy XIV" roleplay server' on Google and the information was right there without so much as a click further.

A lot of us are/were FFXI players, and in all my years of playing FFXI I have only seen RPing a couple times (and usually seen the whole server come down hard on it), and nothing on the scale of FFXIV's idiocy. We do hate it enough to Google and check into it now that we've been exposed, but we signed on without any expectation that this RP deviancy would even be a factor.

[Skies]

As someone who has 90ish people blacklisted from /say RPing from when it was really heavy, I can tell you blisting people gets old fast. I also like how you go on like it's some huge act of laziness on our part, when RP'ers could just as easily have their furry fantasies in /linkshell. Why should potentially dozens of players /blist you, when you could do your deviant crap in private? The only answer to this I can come up with is you do it for attention, probably to cope from your father abandoning you as a small child.

A lot of us are/were FFXI players, and in all my years of playing FFXI I have only seen RPing a couple times (and usually seen the whole server come down hard on it), and nothing on the scale of FFXIV's idiocy. We do hate it enough to Google and check into it now that we've been exposed, but we signed on without any expectation that this RP deviancy would even be a factor.

Okay so... I'm a tabletop RPG player with a lot of experience, RPed in Ragnarok Online with a rather famous Guild in Brazil... And from what I see from your reaction I don't think what you're running into is the sort of RPing I've been thinking you have been running into, and you're making me baffled.
Just, what sort, exactly, of things are you running into? From your words I think it's something even someone like me would have to take measures against.

Edit: That being said, I do understand that people perhaps dislike /say spamming, but you get that ANYWAY with all those sorts of shouts.