How will this game have "large scale PVP", when the current PVP is a tiny niche?

[Epistane]

I don't even think it's the grind TBH.. It's the fact that queues are long as fck. And not only that but when you do manage to get into a game, the games are usually 1 min and under (then back to waiting in queue again!)... AND We have to play thousands of games in the SAME ugly fcking arena with the same damn game type.. WTB frontlines... ffs pvp community dying now.. I don't even see any of the oldie rank 30s on primals DC anymore..

luckily for me I've been 30 for a while, but this is killing off the newer generation of pvpers =(

[Koltik]

Yes - it's sad to see how few people are PvPing lately. SE really needs to combine data center queues for PvP..

[ulti_19]

Currently I only play with hope of an amazing open PvP map where it's chaos and awesomeness. If Front Lines isn't what I think it is, I'll probably switch over to another RvR game because that's what I personally love and spend most of my time in games. But I have super high hopes this one will deliver a great war map.

[Pentara]

how do you have open world pvp in a game without real factions? I know they say grand company vs or w/e but that means you are going to be fighting your friends and the uldah one will likeley be a zerg
i don't think there's enough people pvping on adamantois to have any meaningful large scale pvp barely even enough to make an 8 man

[ErzaYawgmoth]

how do you have open world pvp in a game without real factions? I know they say grand company vs or w/e but that means you are going to be fighting your friends and the uldah one will likeley be a zerg
i don't think there's enough people pvping on adamantois to have any meaningful large scale pvp barely even enough to make an 8 man

Well the PvP you participate in now is for the purpose of training and gaining battle exp according to the story. In real life the militaries across the world have war games within themselves and it get's pretty heated at times depending on the funding allowed. The great thing about this is there is no limit to the funding allowed and you can kill your friends cause the Crystal of Light will allow them to respawn.

[WellFooled]

I think more people will PvP when there are more options than just arena style available. My only experience in PvP other than FFXIV was in WoW and in that game I, and many people I played with, spent much more time playing Battlegrounds or world PvP than arenas. In fact, I probably would have never stepped foot into arenas if it didn't help gear up my character.

I imagine the same will hold true for FFXIV. I think many more people will join in PvP once there are options besides just the Wolves Den.

[Talketzanto]

got to rank 13 about 2 days after patch.....Now im rank 17 and games are about every 20 mins on peak hours.....I gave up because in my playtime I might get 6 games in 2 hours of play and if I lose even half of them its just not worth the time invested vs XP......I don't really PVE so Im at a loss.....

BTW Marlboro server (bard)

also I think RvR would be awesome in this game and I love low pop pvp games (not this low) so you know everyone you play with and against and gain certain friendships and enemys

[Pentara]

I think more people will PvP when there are more options than just arena style available. My only experience in PvP other than FFXIV was in WoW and in that game I, and many people I played with, spent much more time playing Battlegrounds or world PvP than arenas. In fact, I probably would have never stepped foot into arenas if it didn't help gear up my character.

I imagine the same will hold true for FFXIV. I think many more people will join in PvP once there are options besides just the Wolves Den.

more people will pvp for like a week or 2 but they will get raped by ppl that have been pvping all along and will quit

[Edenlys]

how do you have open world pvp in a game without real factions? I know they say grand company vs or w/e but that means you are going to be fighting your friends and the uldah one will likeley be a zerg

If frontline is a real open world pvp, tri faction will be nice if sharing is 2serv vs 2serv vs 2serv from our own datacenter (exemple).
Grand company sound bad cause changing gc means restart pvp rank grinding

[Pentara]

yea if it's cross server or cross datacenter then yea it's going to be awesome imo. if its just your own server gc vs gc vs gc then it's going to be super one sided and shitty :|