FFXIV Roleplay: Reborn!

[Lior]

Hello everyone, today it is my pleasure to unveil Final Fantasy XIV Roleplayers, or as I like to call it: FFXIV Roleplay: Reborn.

The purpose of Final Fantasy XIV Roleplayers is to offer roleplayers in FFXIV whether new, returning, or already here, the opportunity for a fresh start. With the inevitable influx of players taking a look at A Realm Reborn, we want to create a space for roleplayers of any style to gather, get to know one another, and discuss relevant topics in a neutral environment.

More than that, we want to offer the roleplaying community a fresh start as well. The previous two years have had their ups and downs for roleplayers, and not everything has been rainbows and sunshine. We feel that as part of revitalizing the roleplaying community, we should cast off the weight of the past. While we have no intention of replacing those who came before us, we hope to co-exist alongside them with an environment and style all our own.

So what can you expect from FFXIV-RP.com?

Regular Feature Articles

Columns, featurettes, and news relevant to roleplayers will grace our front page on a regular basis. As time goes on, we'll be increasing our staff to increase the rate of articles so our users always have something new to read. Our ultimate goal is to provide in-character coverage of events and important milestones within the game. If you're a capable writer with a bit of spare time, we encourage you to apply as a journalist!

A Meeting Place

Linkshells and Free Companies with roleplaying in mind are encouraged to advertise on our listings forums, where potential new members will be able to find the group that's right for them. An event calendar is free to be utilized by any user, allowing them to post their events right to the sidebar module at any time for maximum exposure. If that's not enough, the Adventurers' Guild forum offers everyone the opportunity to pitch new free company and linkshell ideas, search for people interested in creating joint backstories, or just find a new roleplaying partner.

A Repository of Creativity

With forums for active roleplay, character stories and journals, art and videos, and a fully-featured user-friendly wiki coming (very!) soon, FFXIV-RP offers you a place to share your creativity with the entire community. We'll even be highlighting popular works on our front page!

Unbiased Moderation

FFXIV-RP is a place for all roleplayers in Final Fantasy XIV, and we plan to facilitate this without personal bias. Our rules don't exist to further a personal agenda, or to dictate how any individual should roleplay. All we ask is that you conduct yourself with cordiality and respect. All opinions are welcome, when presented in a civil manner!

Ultimately we want to provide roleplayers in FFXIV with the strongest platform possible on which to build their future, but we need your support to do it! Whether you're a casual roleplayer or into full-time immersion, regardless of server, and even if you don't actively roleplay but love to talk about the lore, you're welcome to stop by, sign up, and introduce yourself. We expect our community to grow in the months leading up to launch, and hope that anyone interested in the roleplaying facets of Final Fantasy XIV will be a part of it!

[Majidah]

So are you guys still gathering at balmung or what?

[Lior]

So are you guys still gathering at balmung or what?

This particular community is open to players of all servers. While Balmung has plenty of roleplayers, we're not planning on limiting our coverage and support to a single server.

[Yucie]

I'm interested in this as well.

[Keisuna]

For those of you who don't know, the FFXIV roleplaying community— or what little is left of it— is currently rather fractured. I wasn't there when it began, but sometime back there was a big fight over the Role-Playing Coallition's charter that formed a rift in the community. The charter was scrapped by Kylin back then, but apparently that didn't seem to fix anything, and everyone continued to take sides.

Lior, this is why your website confuses me. Why would you make a website that will undoubtedly compete with the RPC— whether you intend it to or not, as both have the same core functions— and not expect to increase the rift that already exists in the community?

Many people still see you as one of the main players in the fight that tore this community apart. What are they supposed to think when you make a website that does essentially the same thing as the RPC? Because right now it looks like you're just trying to knock Kylin down and further cement the rift in the RP community, rather than working to unite it again.

There are people who I used to love playing with who I don't really get to talk to anymore because they're on the other side of that rift. There's no excuse for it. The RP community should be united, so we can all benefit from roleplaying with each other no matter what group we're in.

[Yucie]

For those of you who don't know, the FFXIV roleplaying community— or what little is left of it— is currently rather fractured. I wasn't there when it began, but sometime back there was a big fight over the Role-Playing Coallition's charter that formed a rift in the community. The charter was scrapped by Kylin back then, but apparently that didn't seem to fix anything, and everyone continued to take sides.

Lior, this is why your website confuses me. Why would you make a website that will undoubtedly compete with the RPC— whether you intend it to or not, as both have the same core functions— and not expect to increase the rift that already exists in the community?

Many people still see you as one of the main players in the fight that tore this community apart. What are they supposed to think when you make a website that does essentially the same thing as the RPC? Because right now it looks like you're just trying to knock Kylin down and further cement the rift in the RP community, rather than working to unite it again.

There are people who I used to love playing with who I don't really get to talk to anymore because they're on the other side of that rift. There's no excuse for it. The RP community should be united, so we can all benefit from roleplaying with each other no matter what group we're in.

It's his right to create a website for his roleplaying group if he so chooses. I don't think anyone has the right to tell him otherwise.

I've been RPing for years - RPing groups come, people join, there's drama, the community splits, and people eventually leave. It happens ALL the time, and most people forget why the drama was even started in the first place. Maybe Lior sees it as his duty to create a community and work to help it so there won't be a rift, or a canyon between two sides of RPers.

But, in all cases, the people who create the drama and point the fingers are usually those who take it too seriously, and its their fault that rifts between people exist in the first place. Many groups can co-exist at the same time, it's perfectly possible - but people need to grow beyond silly internet dramatica.

[Aveline]

Many people still see you as one of the main players in the fight that tore this community apart.

I really thought everyone was well past that kind of finger pointing. Considering how few people actually were around (or remember) what happened in the first place. Can't we just move past the drama? The current RPC isn't even the first. There were others that created community sites, but they got overlooked and eventually their creators moved on to other games.

And honestly, what is the harm in two community sites for RPers existing at the same time? Wouldn't it actually serve to help more people get to know each other? Should ZAM, XIVCore, Eorzeapedia, etc. all shut down shop too, since we now have the Lodestone? They all more or less serve the exact same purpose, but I don't see any of those sites tearing apart the XIV community. I think it's a discredit to gamers to say that their community is so fragile as to be ripped apart by the mere existence of another forum.

[Chadwick]

yall r noice

[Lior]

Thanks to those of you who have shown your support so far! We've been growing steadily over the last week, and we'll continue to gain steam as we press on into the future.

We're celebrating the final save this week with a special 'Final Countdown' edition of our Inquiring Minds (formerly Moogle Madness) series, which asks our users questions pertaining to their characters and their roleplay in the game. We'll be posting a new article every day this week, with each question themed around the fall of Dalamud.

Feel free to join in and participate in the discussion!