/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay

We're growing.

First off, using WoW as an indicator is a stupid idea. People don't want to pay for a subscription after purchasing the game and the expansions. It has little to do with their desire to ERP.

Second, there's a much larger number of ways to get your fix. Kik, Skype, Steam, WoW, FFXIV, Wildstar, Guild Wars 2, TERA, Blade and Soul, Gaia, RPGNation, F-List, Litphoria, Omegle, Chatnango, Second Life, Archeage, Everquest 1 and 2, every other MMO on the market, many websites with forums, and so on and so forth. ERP has dispersed among all of these.

If you see your examples as the only places where people are lewd then yes, it's barren. Nowadays though nearly every community has a seedy underbelly and ERP is more common then ever, just not blatantly advertised.

>>57003

I see what you mean in that there are WAY more venues, but that also spreads us very thin. I know a large number of people who have quit the hobby altogether because it's plainly too hard to find someone in the venue they'd like to play in.

MMO rp communities are wholly overrun with SJWs. Tumblrinas rule most guilds, and its just a shitty place to do normal rp, not to mention ERP.

However, I would note, f-list has about 250000 registered profiles. Our hobby is kindasorta the same size, but priorities are changing within the truest crowd and we're moving to other venues.

>>57003

If you can't find it, it doesn't exist. I vote with the OP in saying that for all practical purposes ERP has withered on the vine compared to how readily available it was between 1999 to 2010.

>>57011

That attitude is what killed WRA/MG, not "tumblrinas".

>>57013

If you can't find it, search harder or look elsewhere. You could probably just Goggle "Adult RP for Video Game" and find the community.

>>57016

Nigger blood of lordaeron, their hordeside buddies and their artist circlejerk of feminists is what killed MG and WrA. They revel in mediocrity and are fine with every other person playing some bullshit mary sue and label any form of "hey maybe thats a stupid character concept" comment as hardcore elitism.

They tone police, character assassinate every single person that attacks them for their bullshit.

SJWs and the tumblr mindset ruin everything it touches. Just look at most good cartoons

If you think the community is dying, you're wrong. Maybe YOU aren't finding satisfactory amounts of ERP and are projecting it along, but no, as a whole the community is pretty much the same, if not just a bit bigger. Take any public and easily accessible public internet group and you will find people that either Roleplay or ERP there or have found a community in places solely dedicated to it. The scene shifts places with the age range of people who get into it.

It's not that it's dying or fading, it's just that the "community", or however you want to put it, is scattered and unable to find a place to properly congregate because of varying tastes or just a general unwillingness to move.

Roleplaying is a growing hobby, mostly because it's easier to do it and easier to find places for it. Finding a special place that caters to you will be rough, but it's easier than it used to be.

It's hard to join a pre-existing group, mostly because the cliques have already formed and casting away the few problem-people you have will cause drama and does not absolutely guarantee that more sane roleplayers will fill the gaps.

I used to go to a rather fun and entertaining MUD that has been running for quite some time with basically no progress over a decade, and it's only recently that they've buckled down on both story and a diceroll combat system related to it.

The playerbase is crap and ungrateful, but the immortals rarely, if ever, ban someone, the last being a desperate attempt to keep players coming to them since a longtime nuisance was trying to drag people to their own MUD.

I decided to leave after my long stay, mostly because of their unwelcoming nature. Each time a new character comes around, they notice them for about five minutes before they go back to their slice-of-life-and-look-at-how-many-husbands-and-wives-and-children-I-have roleplay.

Roleplaying is a growing hobby, but it only seems like it's dying because nobody wants to bring anyone else in.

I think it's dumbed down a lot. I -never- started with one liner *she moans and thrusts her hips*, I would have been backed handed out the fucking door with every single person that I roleplayed with if I pulled that. Hell, I remember being twelve and getting my ass-reamed (figuratively) on Shadow-Council for typing like a fucking twat in the middle of something semi-serious. Now I'll go to the same places and have that totally be the norm, having some edgy-grimdark thing typed out liek dis an no punctuation bcuz only knurds do dat. And don't get me started on F-list, because holy fuck. There's a problem when there are literal profiles that tout 4-7 sentences as 'long' and that people shouldn't be afraid to approach because of that.

>>57031

I'd agree that the elitism that was a buffer against a lot of tardshits getting their way and being able to rp like a fucknugget has died off, which on one hand is good, because the true elitists were fucking assholes of the highest degree.

But now, in a lot of communities, even the lightest form of rp policing is seen as elitism- and then people wonder why barely grammar-competent mary sues run around everywhere.

I think thats driven most people off to other places, or even off from rp entirely- but if you know where to look, you can still find high quality rp. There's just nowhere to gravitate to.

>>57037

This sort of shit makes me want to start a guild in a game, possibly GW2, with standards.

DN and that LEWD guild have high pops but they're littered with people who couldn't type their way out of a paper bag.

The community is growing. Corollary to that, it's also getting casualized.

It used to be that roughly ten years ago, you were likely in a very immobile, tightly-knit group, and had few regular partners to play with.

Now, you're one among thousands. It's simultaneously easier and tougher to get it on: if you go on the prowl, you can easily find somebody to start something with - but the chances are fairly high that this person won't be very good at RPing and remain blissfully unaware of it.

As well, it's more accessible. Dedicated websites like F-List are INFINITELY easier to use than the olden days of MUCKs and IRCs. Now, instead of having hurdles every six feet, or having to remember a bunch of commands, you can just create an account and you're in business, no more setup necessary.

I think I've found it about the same in all the years I've been doing it. iirc my first ever ERP experience was in Diablo 2 as an Amazon character. It sucked, but it was my start.

My quality as a writer has vastly improved since then, and I think any difficulty I have in finding ERP is because of having higher standards now. If you want plain and simple borderline cybering, it's extremely easy to find it in countless chatrooms and MMO's.

Actually finding people who want to write erotic stories with the emphasis on story is another beast. I don't think it's harder to find exactly, it's just that so many people desire that easier road to get off.

With most things nowadays, I feel that the group is increasing in numbers but decreasing in content. Although, maybe it is just my experience, but content wise everything is fine at the moment.

It probably has to do with normies turning to erp more and more. Seeing accounts with nothing but irl model images, one liners, and total reliance in images rather than words, but hey, it is one more individual into our little cringe club.

>>57000

>Is our hobby dying or growing?

When I registered on F-List there were 270 people using the chat at prime time.

It's over 7000 now.

I'm honestly of two minds on this, as others have mentioned it seems to be growing but not growing healthily. It's growing in the same way as people who have gigantism tend to grow; sure there are a lot of people participating and all that but at the cost of later life heart issues and higher risk to other such health issues. Basically, lots of people but most of them are utter shit.

Maybe it's just me, maybe I've developed higher standards since I've started but I remember back just a few years ago if someone approached me there was a good chance they'd be something I was into, or at least would give a shot. Decent profile, no overly spaghetti come-on, had ideas for what they wanted to do when approaching you, etc. hell, even bitch breakers were tolerable at times. Sure there were shit people still but that's to be expected of any community and they were easy to ignore… Now I can't even log onto my pinks without getting BBC cucklords who don't seem capable of reading profiles hitting me up for stuff that goes entirely against what my character is, towel/cdplayer generic anime boys, doormat subs, and people trying to force their weird shit on me (worst I got back then were the extreme foot fetish people, now it's shit like "sit on my face and fart until I suffocate"). So while there are certainly more people, it seems like there are fewer out there that I'd actually want to do anything with; course this is all personal observation and opinion.

Also for the record, I didn't even know about ERPing in MMOs until a year or so ago and got my start of forums, so simply judging the health of ERP based on MMO activity while not looking at other venues might not be the best metric.