Well, on that note it depends very much on what you mean by 'roleplayers'. A lot of the roleplayers who genuinely invested in the game's lore ended up being driven away between the sheer amount of people obsessed with ERP and the strange policing of anyone inclined to play anything even remotely antagonistic. Roleplay is about much more than attending 'venues' and it's telling that there's been all sorts of major server wide campaigns in WoW over the years but very little of the equivalent here in FFXIV.