For me?

  • Takes to long to get in.
  • Favors specific setups.
  • Developers seem OK with win-trading and other shady practices
  • Due to the above doing anything properly takes forever for no reason
  • Rewards are purely cosmetic for the most part
  • Grand Company restrictions prevent me from queing with friends
I've never been a big fan of PVP in any game, while this is mostly a extent of this the entire implementation of the system screams of design failures the developers can't bring themselves to fix. I get the whole "Lore" aspect of the PVP but jesus it's so restricting when you have a allready small pool of players fragmented even further by a arbitrary system like this.


Christ XI did the whole PVP thing better and that's not funny. While it had the same national restriction stuff they at least had schedueled matches so the people interested in the content knew when to be around.