Would you still RP?

[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.

[Alyko]

Has anyone ever played MUDs before? You know, those text-based predecessors to MMOs where you emoted your character actions? Is it such a devastating setback to emote your character's actions in FFXIV?

[Yonikumi]

Never used any of this and yep, I'll just keep roleplaying the way I always did. You don't need ANY addons to do RP, especially not these degenerate ones. RP's always been about imagination and creativity and some of the people complaining have none of both.

[Wyssahtyn]

Has anyone ever played MUDs before? You know, those text-based predecessors to MMOs where you emoted your character actions? Is it such a devastating setback to emote your character's actions in FFXIV?

with the character limit for chat and the constant automated scrolling to the bottom of the chat log whenever someone posts, it is kinda a pain, yeah.

[s32ialx]

Has anyone ever played MUDs before? You know, those text-based predecessors to MMOs where you emoted your character actions? Is it such a devastating setback to emote your character's actions in FFXIV?

yeah cause this person knows that progress is a bad thing.

[Wyssahtyn]

if i had a group maybe. otherwise no since i expect public rp to be just as dead as it already was. once that sort of thing starts dying off, it takes immense grassroots efforts to get it going again, which i don't think veterans of this game's community are inclined towards. even putting that aside, it requires an effort at decent worldbuilding from the devs and that's just been extremely mid since 4.x/shadowbringers when they turned away from that to focus on their character writing.

[Basteala]

if i had a group maybe. otherwise no since i expect public rp to be just as dead as it already was. once that sort of thing starts dying off, it takes immense grassroots efforts to get it going again, which i don't think veterans of this game's community are inclined towards. even putting that aside, it requires an effort at decent worldbuilding from the devs and that's just been extremely mid since 4.x/shadowbringers when they turned away from that to focus on their character writing.

I wholeheartedly agree with the first point but disagree with the second. DT--for its many faults, has some genuinely interesting meta lore.

Honestly what it really boils down to is a similar problem to WoW--the best RPers, or the most story driven ones, or what have you, tend to keep themselves. That may be for having an established group. That may be because their brand of RP tends to be more in the world than various venues. Or it could be that they're just done with the drama--and to some, perceived mediocrity--of the public RP scene. Because of that it can be extremely hard to get into RP, especially given how many people--as I understand it--in public RP wouldn't even talk to you if you didn't have mods. Heard that complaint a lot.

[Hallarem]

Believe it or not, people can rp without mods

[Clover_Blake]

My RP experiences haven't been the best, truth be told. I did try RPing with a group a year ago, but it was too casual for my tastes, and some of the members did try to make me feel excluded for not using mods. Reading this thread, I get the impression that the problem for users who don't use mods is quite widespread?

[Heavenchild]

My RP experiences haven't been the best, truth be told. I did try RPing with a group a year ago, but it was too casual for my tastes, and some of the members did try to make me feel excluded for not using mods. Reading this thread, I get the impression that the problem for users who don't use mods is quite widespread?

I guess Mare had a really bad impact on the RP community. People just wanted to show off mods instead of really role-playing.
Players on consoles, or those who refused to use Mare, weren’t really welcome anymore.