SaintOfAether

Well, thank you for the replies and it shows I am not the only one who has seen these negative changes, but I will say that FC-driven or Home-Driven RP events seem to have increased a ton! I have also seen a SKYROCKET in the quality of RP, so I suppose not everything is bad. I also have met a ton of skilled RPers that I never would have met had they not introduced the cross-server thing. Being able to meet people from Omega, or Mateus or whatever RP servers there are has been a joy. I have, however, heard that one RP staple that was all the rage back when I was a regular is STILL around! I was so happy to hear people still do Grindstone/Runestone!

Hello everyone. Name's Saint, aka Corim. I am returning after about a 4-5 year hiatus from FFXIV (been playing about a month now since my return) and I am...quite worried, to be honest. When I last played, RP was abundant in every where I looked. I could go to Ul-Dah and meet up with people, go to Limsa's bar, there were TONs of events often shouted in the streets advertising to come to FCs and the like... Now I arrive with random people from other worlds trying to be memelords and random ERP alts flooding the Quicksand (it's Moonguard all over again...). Trying to find RP with my character has become nigh impossible with random people, and my FC, while awesome, is very small with very little activity during my timezone. I transferred -all- of my characters back in the day to Balmung because I was told it was the RP hub on FFXIV, and now I see not a drop of it out in public anymore. While the gameplay, new classes, storyline in MSQ, and all that is amazing, what made me love this game was the roleplay and meeting new people. There are only so many times I can "go to X's tavern" and get a drink.... In short: What the hell happened to kill off public RP in the RP server?