because it's the equivalent of jumping onto a TTRPG table, proclaim "YOUR SHIT ISN'T REAL!!!" and when they tell you to fuck off because they just want to play their game going LOL COPE SEETHE.
different people like different things, and like you said they don't hurt anyone. trying to get them riled up stops being funny after the second time, it's simply a waste of time and energy of everyone involved. no need for big filters when I can just run past it or ignore the few lines in chat while doing whatever I do. it's the same in ESO where some people can't handle russian guild ads - not because they can't read them, because they're in cyrillic....
besides, I don't know how they handle it on US servers, but most of the time they stick to themselves and out of the way anyway, probably less out of consideration for others but knowing it just invites LE EPIC TROLE XD. fwiw they're probably the last demanding faction of players in the game, they just want to do their rp without getting bothered, maybe ask for more housing stuff.
I should have specified. That Reddit post was from the MMORPG subreddit. One of the main features of that subreddit is people endlessly complaining about how MMORPGs are not like in the "good old days". People are sitting around for years waiting for a game developer to deliver onto them the great promised land. It's akin to the redpill subreddit when that existed, but instead of women, it's mmos. It's weird to see people suddenly seeing this event as this amazing thing.
Maybe they just want to play a MUD. Maybe the endgame is that everyone will play Second Life and VRChat.
Roleplayers tend to stick to their own thing, but this isn't really a roleplay event. The guests are mostly youtubers/streamers/raiders. But maybe that's me erring into your examples.
Thinking about it, most of this "stage play" stuff could probably be done better in VRChat. Population limits are roughly the same as a house limit in FFXIV. But these people are dedicated to their autism of making stage plays with emote and text box macros.
"Events" in this game are pretty weird. I know /vg/ has their own events that tend to be packed, and what tends to happen is that if they stream a movie, a significant part of the audience is ERPing. Then you have people having meltdowns in the thread because nobody socializes with them at the event. There's also a lot of /vg/ cliques who act like high schoolers.
Tbh if people do milquetoast DnD or even Critical Role tier cringe types of RP i dont really think much of em
When they want to ERP though, yeah thats when i laugh at the autism and call them degenerates lmao
Another poster mentioned how people keep trying to shove their fetishes into it. That happens more often than you think, or you realize the person is a turbo coomer and they use their RP character constantly in lewd commissions. There are types of DnD players that drag sessions down, edgelords, min maxers, players that just murder everything, ERPers fit in there too.
whatever rocks their boat, I don't judge as long as they don't shove it in my face. usually the same still applies where they do their stuff in their own little corner, so it's easy to ignore - and I've played games with dedicated RP shards where they had official brothels.
it's not like you need to spend a lot of time in limsa anyway if you don't want to.
Doesn't mean I can't make fun of it. But for the most part, these people don't do anything cow worthy.
Just a thought I had. The game isn't that active socially. You have people AFKing in Limsa and housing wards tend to be pretty dead. If you have a FC, chances are they have a discord and that's where people socialize anyway. It's hard to keep people around when the game offers little core content, side activities that are minigames at best, and asks for a subscription fee. It's hard for me to justify paying a sub fee to say hi to someone in a video game. People in my static don't only do raiding, they've done their relic and some are done with crafting, they have their ishgard tools, and they're unsubbed from the game.
I'm especially wondering how people will view the game when big streamers are done with the content they're interested in.
