Role players please DO NOT do this!

[Usernamewastaken]

Shoulda just said, "Lol" and left it at that. Now if they were RP walking purposely and making it go slow(er) then yeah I can see an issue.

[Caurcas]

RP is unironically bad. I feel sorry for you op.

[Chie_M]

You're overreacting, and saying "but I have anxiety" isn't going to change that -- so do I. I've had RPers and people continuing extremely personal conversations that they were obviously having before the duty. As long as the dungeon is being cleared in a timely fashion, just ignore them. Switch to a different chat tab if it's that bothersome.

[FoxRivers]

They likely wanted to fight mobs/gain exp and explore as exploration doesn't provide either. It's also inconsiderate for you to say leave RP out of PUG groups like sometimes you'll get luck and get someone who will go along with you or become a friend. Like if it bugs you close chat or mute chat sounds.

[MilkieTea]

You have anxiety... so what?

So long as they weren't gimping the run they're doing fine. They have every right to use the chat box so long as they are not harassing you. And it seems they weren't, considering you said nothing to indicate you were uncomfortable with the situation. From someone who has a diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder: Suck. It. Up. If you're uncomfortable with something either say something or don't complain when others can't read your mind.

Edit with quote inb4 any possible OP edits:

I was tanking a roulette with randoms and got Aetherochemical Research Facility. There was a couple of players in that run that were role playing as if they were doing their own storyline type of thing and kept trying to rope me and the other player into their role playing. Neither of us was interested as they should've been able to tell when we weren't talking.

To make matters worse these people kept poking hints at us like 'These warriors are mighty quiet.' or 'I wonder why they're not talking...' This drove my anxiety up really bad. And I just kept doing emotes at them to try to keep the mood light between the entire party. Their persistence felt like borderline harassment to my oversensitive ass. But I cant get that upset since I didn't ask them to stop in the first place. The other party member was not having any of it. You should've seen how fast he left after the dungeon was over. Left via the duty menu so quickly he did.

The run was not pleasant for me at all. I do role play but mainly with friends, and definitely not in duty finder dungeons with randoms I literally met 5 seconds ago. So please... don't try to force/rope other people into your role play. Or at least just me.

[Cyreil]

And then there are people who complain that this game makes us all quiet during dungeon runs.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I’m confused. So you’re too anxious to tell someone to stop when they’re making you uncomfortable but you’re not so anxious enough as to make an entire forum post about the situation whilst also telling others not to do this, despite you saying your anxiety was about ruining their fun. I can’t tell if this is a troll or not.

[EnnCee]

I was tanking a roulette with randoms and got Aetherochemical Research Facility. There was a couple of players in that run that were role playing as if they were doing their own storyline type of thing and kept trying to rope me and the other player into their role playing. Neither of us was interested as they should've been able to tell when we weren't talking.

To make matters worse these people kept poking hints at us like 'These warriors are mighty quiet.' or 'I wonder why they're not talking...' This drove my anxiety up really bad. And I just kept doing emotes at them to try to keep the mood light between the entire party. Their persistence felt like borderline harassment to my oversensitive ass. But I cant get that upset since I didn't ask them to stop in the first place. The other party member was not having any of it. You should've seen how fast he left after the dungeon was over. Left via the duty menu so quickly he did.

The run was not pleasant for me at all. I do role play but mainly with friends, and definitely not in duty finder dungeons with randoms I literally met 5 seconds ago. So please... don't try to force/rope other people into your role play. Or at least just me.

bingo! reminds me of a time in aion when all the RPer's on the server got together and held a huge dance party in the pub during a fortress seige. they were not well-received for a long time after...

RP's and plain ole PC's need to be mindful that not everyone enjoys the same experience in the same way, and the events in the game need to be chosen around that mutual consideration. it sounds like to me, that you did a good job of considering them; it would have been ideal if they also considered you.

[rachcouture]

I genuinely don't understand how a tiny bit of in-character chatter during an otherwise smooth dungeon run could possibly cause you any stress, unless you have a bias against roleplayers in general. I'm saying this as someone with anxiety so severe that even medication barely makes me functional.

Were it me, I'd have just smiled and carried on, because while I might be biased as someone that roleplays on occasion, objectively, this is FAR better than dead silence, never mind the bad attitudes and other toxic behavior.

[DubiousDisk]

I had an experience like this ages ago, like I am talking way when ARR was fresh fresh and I wasn't even out of high school. Two people were RPing during a raid and kept trying to include me despite me clearly not wanting to due to not responding or even acknowledging their existence outside of actually playing the game. I eventually told them that I really wasn't comfortable RPing with them, especially mid raid and they understood and stopped entirely.

You really just have to open up about it, most players will understand or at the very least stop without a word if you make it known it's bothering you. And you kind of have to, cause for some reason in FF14, the RP community(atleast the exclusively in game RP community), is weirdly pushy and weird and don't know of that fact half the time.