The decline of the community

[Saefinn]

That said, Balmung went from RP heavy to just bizarre in the cities. Yeah ever since Au'ra came out you had your futa dragon girls everywhere, but now I literally get harassed by cat girl pimps trying to sell me boys in Uldah. That was new. I used to defend Balmung in having a solid community outside of the ERP stuff. Now? Nah they deserve every joke lol (joking when I say that before anyone gets upset)

Speaking as a Balmungian RPer, that's pretty much Ul'dah, mostly around the Quicksands. After a while it started to have a reputation, I think it got one as a spot to pick up ERP and also it started picking up trolls. The joke often is "avoid the Quicksands" I didn't RP on WoW but I've heard it is compared to Goldshire. Some people still go there for regular RP, so maybe they can still get it there. But the last time I RP'd in the Quicksands was maybe 4 or 5 years ago and it wasn't so much an issue back then. Heck, I am surprised anybody manages to RP in there, it always looks ridiculously crowded. I also know to turn off shout chat in Ul'dah because it can be cancer. But fortunately its mostly kept to one place and is easily avoidable.

Outside of that scope, Balmung has a lot of great RP and great RP communities still, they've not died out and are still going strong. And we share with other servers on the data centre, mainly Mateus and Zalera. A lot of stuff gets advertised through the a calender, through Tumblr, Twitter and various Discords and sometimes the PF. There's also fellowships for it. Those are the places I tend to look for it.

[WoW]

You are funny. RPers aren't illegal. People who RP always RP. Hardcore raiders don't keep RPers in check (whatever that even means). But from what MPK wrote, totally sounds like those who are bored with no new Ultimate right now are partaking a little bit more in ERP. I found it amusing.

How do you deal with rp ultimate raiders? There's a whole fc of them on jenova.

I'm sure that blows your mind.

An actual human being typed this.
RP is only illegal in that fantasy world inside of yours, friendo. Besides, I doubt RP will ever go away considering how it lives rent free inside your head.

You should all learn to read before you respond. I didn't say RP in itself is illegal. And I refuse to call illegal RP as ERP. ERP is and will always be Epic Raid Progression! Stop stealing our words!

[rance-sama]

You should all learn to read before you respond. I didn't say RP in itself is illegal. And I refuse to call illegal RP as ERP. ERP is and will always be Epic Raid Progression! Stop stealing our words!

Alright, I'll admit this funpost made me smile. Good one.

[Kaurhz]

You should all learn to read before you respond. I didn't say RP in itself is illegal. And I refuse to call illegal RP as ERP. ERP is and will always be Epic Raid Progression! Stop stealing our words!

It's an acronym, besides.. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); we all know that's where it's at, stop stealing our acronyms and using them for your delicate ego.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It's an acronym, besides.. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); we all know that's where it's at, stop stealing our acronyms and using them for your delicate ego.

Obviously it stands for Enhanced Resonance Perception.

[Kaurhz]

Obviously it stands for Enhanced Resonance Perception.

Nah, it really means event-related potential.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Nah, it really means event-related potential.

I figured it out.

The reason all the (trolling) ultimate raiders hate ERP is because it stands for Ego Related Pain.

They can't take any hits to their egos!

[Awha]

It's an acronym, besides.. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); we all know that's where it's at, stop stealing our acronyms and using them for your delicate ego.

I am sorry you are mistaken it stands for Expensive Redundant Processing.

[Raikai]

The last two pages here are only spam, no discussion, hence post deleted, no point in this.

There's one thing on top of the usual Forum community decay niche (which happens in any kind of gaming forums tbh), but here is a little worse because the forums engine itself is terrible. You can't track who replied to your posts and whatnot, making it extra difficult to keep track of (good) discussions, unless you keep a thread tab open and F5 it all day long.

[Puremallace]

You know the funniest part of this entire thread?

"""Why is everyone on FF14 nicer collectively?"""

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...ctively/912675

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