Would you still RP?

[TeresaFortell]

I personally do not do a lot of RP in this game. However, I do know there exists a vast amount of communities dedicated to RPs and NC venues in the game. With all that is going down at the moment, would you still do them, or do you think it is over at the moment?

[Solowing]

I mean they can still rp right?

[Yumarox]

RP will not die from this; look at other "dead" MMO's like SWTOR that still have an RP community. It will lose an advantage over other MMO's that it once had, so those who are not thrilled on Dawntrail already will have one more excuse to leave. Most communities are giving the situation two weeks to see what happens before making a choice. A good way to explain it would be if SE deleted dancer from the game, sure it would not effect everyone, and you can play a different job, but those who play for that might lose the only thing making them wait until 8.0 and be done with Dawntrail.

In two weeks a new one might be up and running anyway under a different name if it takes SE three years to act just make a new one its not like the ability to make a new one is gone. FF14 has not changed its code so if anything, this might just be shareholder appeasement to look like they did something. If they wanted to kill it they would update the code to make the current means no longer possible, but that is far more expensive and harder to do than a lawsuit.

If SE took this long to give all the races hats and chat bubbles they are a decade behind modders still.

[Jeeqbit]

RP existed long before. I originally started out looking for the RP server in 2015 even, which was Balmung. Some RPers may find this a dealbreaker, but certainly not all of them.

[Sani2341]

It depends on how this shakes out.

If it ends up with rp venues getting more visibility again that Aren't just 'irl Nightclub for people that want to stay Home', maybe.

[Roda]

Honestly, I might dip my toes back into it now.

I dropped out of the scene a while back due to a combination of health issues and frustration about the growing expectation that everyone had to jump through the same hoops to see the same visual universe as everyone else, it just wasn't worth the hassle.
Add on the fact that we finally got speech bubbles (though, they do suck at the moment, please SE, let us select more lines to display. in and out of combat, who is an option hurting?? X_X), and i'm almost excited...

[TeresaFortell]

RP will not die from this; look at other "dead" MMO's like SWTOR that still have an RP community. It will lose an advantage over other MMO's that it once had, so those who are not thrilled on Dawntrail already will have one more excuse to leave. Most communities are giving the situation two weeks to see what happens before making a choice. A good way to explain it would be if SE deleted dancer from the game, sure it would not effect everyone, and you can play a different job, but those who play for that might lose the only thing making them wait until 8.0 and be done with Dawntrail.

In two weeks a new one might be up and running anyway under a different name if it takes SE three years to act just make a new one its not like the ability to make a new one is gone. FF14 has not changed its code so if anything, this might just be shareholder appeasement to look like they did something. If they wanted to kill it they would update the code to make the current means no longer possible, but that is far more expensive and harder to do than a lawsuit.

If SE took this long to give all the races hats and chat bubbles they are a decade behind modders still.

That's the thing, though. Whether it was SE pulling the plug doesn't matter too much, but the timing couldn't be worse. We already have a declining player base due to a divisive expansion, and subsequent patches, despite getting better, have not recuperated that initial loss. Seemingly out of nowhere, this happens, and it would without a shadow of a doubt hurt the player base further, especially the RP community.

Perhaps there would be another one running in a few weeks or months. The question, however, is whether it would bring back the players that it has lost.

[MeiraStarborne]

Third party plugins, and the expectation to have / use them, was one part of what drove me away from the XIV RP scene a few years ago. When the buzz of all this dies down, I might see what things are like in that space again.

[Yumarox]

That's the thing, though. Whether it was SE pulling the plug doesn't matter too much, but the timing couldn't be worse. We already have a declining player base due to a divisive expansion, and subsequent patches, despite getting better, have not recuperated that initial loss. Seemingly out of nowhere, this happens, and it would without a shadow of a doubt hurt the player base further, especially the RP community.

Perhaps there would be another one running in a few weeks or months. The question, however, is whether it would bring back the players that it has lost.

In the end the only thing I know for certain is this has to do with money in one way or another. Anything more we don't know unless SE discloses it during a shareholder meeting. When an expac projected to make a lot fails to meet expectations, cash shops seem to be the go too to appease shareholders. A history lesson, WoW big failure Warlord of Draenor was their first huge flop, and it was the same expansion that introduced the WoW token which was a year into the expansion's launch.

Despite everyone's personal opinions on Dawntrial, its reputation seems not to be meeting expectations. One item in the cash shop is around one month sub, so if losing the Mare can be even to the amount of people buying cash shop then thats a break even.

[SummonCarbuncle]

I’m more inclined to try RP now. A lot of RP groups I dabbled in were all about there third party stuff. Which I could care less about. And that’s what most of their conversations turned into by the end.