Concerns about the PvP and why it might not succeed, though I want it to very much!

[Ryans]

Seriously this is one of the reasons why I will never PVP in this game.... SE's already taking the FFXI rout with PVP. This^^ is just beyond stupid, if people want to be cry babies and turn there names off let them but stop stepping on the feet of players who are over the age of 10 and can actually handle w/e comes there way grief wise. I'm not gonna go QQing to a GM because dem feel's got hurt and someone said I was bad... grow up or gtfo.

You're not gonna PvP because you can't see a players name? That is just childish and against the entire concept of PvP. It's about beating your opponent and you don't need a name to do that. If anything, it makes PvP even more difficult because you won't be able to obtain any knowledge of the opponent before combat. If it's that big of a deal to know how skilled the person you just beat is then SE could display something like the win/loss ratio of the other player.

[Rereyl]

Correct me if I'm wrong but, if I remember correctly from the beta, you could see the names and servers of the players you fought against/with in the post-battle stats.

Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of the whole anonymous thing? Unless it's supposed to simply stop harassment in battle...?

Of course that could have been easily removed but I haven't seen any mention of it.

[Cynric]

Being called fresh meat wont stop someone from shouting or saying youre a bad player. The only thing it truly hinders is, becoming a known pvper, making friends with the other team, recognizing strategies based on your opponent, knowing who is the strongest competition, and any sense of competitive community.

People will harass you no matter what your name is. That is the nature of the anger that gets built up overtime. Most of us PvPers are used to these people and can handle ourselves without being babysat. If you cant handle a little trash talk on the net, Its probably not the best idea to join something that gets heated between players without saying a word.

Only difference with names is we know exactly who the respectful players are and who arent. A system like this does not fix the problem. It furthers it by giving anonymity. Now you will just have to assume everyone has a bad attitude instead of easily finding those who do not.

[HaplessHermit]

As someone who probably won't even be doing pvp, to me it's just another "if you can't take the heat..." sort of deal.

[LarsCroft]

i love the precautions Square enix is taking to filter out those toxic players hopefully it will be a big turn off for their E-peen generator and will move on to the next mmo asap ^^

[rho]

Personally I'm not big on PVP but I don't understand why they don't just make it so an Open World PVP is possible via a simple REQUEST feature.

Just as two people must agree upon a request to, say, join a party, join a duty, or accept a trade (ect)..

This would cut down on harassment entirely.

Scenario:
Player A walks up to Player 1,
Player A requests a PVP match with Player 1!
Player A /psychs Player 1 up!!
Player 1 /smiles and accepts the PVP request.
Player A and Player 1 have a friendly spar. ^^

[Eldelphia]

Because whilst sparring is nice it's relatively dull in comparison to team games. Also i'd imagine some people don't want to get spammed for PvP. I'd rather go to a specific area and indicate that I'm up for getting my butt kicked in an arena for a while. 4v4 and 8v8 could be fun and the realm v realm stuff later looks better.

[Azmar]

I dunno why no one else is freaking over the cross-realm PvP...FFXI pvp was only fun because you can fight with your friends everyday over years, but also go against them. The PvP system in ffxi was horrible, the only reason people did it was fight against their friends/rivals on their OWN Server. Especially with this meat system on cross-realm added, I agree it will feel lifeless and boring.

[VahnValbosce]

Seriously this is one of the reasons why I will never PVP in this game

Take care, have fun in WoW~

[Divinemight]

Take care, have fun in WoW~

Not sure what class he is playing, better not be a Paladin, because the infamous Paladin hater Furor is taking over Ghostcrawler.