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

[Rereyl]

Not exactly, because except for people on your server, you're not likely to see those people again so you have no way of harassing them.

But that further makes me question the entire point of the fresh meat thing.

Though, if WoW was any indication, the more toxic players won't be deterred to make a character and 'verbally' harass someone (unless they're using the basic account).

[frostmagemari]

But that further makes me question the entire point of the fresh meat thing.

Though, if WoW was any indication, the more toxic players won't be deterred to make a character and 'verbally' harass someone (unless they're using the basic account).

I remember when i was PvP'ing in WoW half a year back.. after an arena match someone tried to harass me because they won and thought i sucked... i came up with an amazing counter-argument for them, it was called /ignore. They surprisingly, didn't want to take the time to create a new character on the server and continue trash talking.. if I didn't know better, i would think that his trolling became rather un-fun once he realized that /ignore was an effortless thing to do.

You think Square would realize how easy it was, and how rare you would actually have to do it...

The more toxic players also won't bother hunting people down to harass them, they'll trash talk in the streets of Ul'Dah about how great they are and that the server has nothing but scrubs, with exception to himself of course.

[Alhanelem]

But that further makes me question the entire point of the fresh meat thing.

Though, if WoW was any indication, the more toxic players won't be deterred to make a character and 'verbally' harass someone (unless they're using the basic account).

The idea is to prevent harssment during the match e.g. curb stomping / tea bagging / etc which I guess isn't as fun if you can't put a name to the face.

During the beta test all chat except party was locked down. There was a likely oversight though in /emote which was not restricted. It was probably a bug and will hvae been fixed (you could /emote a <t> and reveal the target's name as well)