DEV REQUEST:DUEL/SPAR system

[Teryaani]

If we can fight each other in Cartenau Flats for dumb reasons, we can spar/duel with each other too.
Lorewise it is not impossible, it is just carebears who are afraid of being harrassed by duel requests while ignore all requests option could be easily added.

If they implemented it with the block duel option set off for default then I'm pretty sure more players wouldn't care. The "carebear" crap doesn't help convince people of your opinion though.

Last time I checked it was a game with a sudden difficulty spike come endgame with a fairly toxic community. Not to mention an MMO which is meant to appeal to a wide range of people, rather than one single demographic.

Relative to other gaming communities this one is pretty good. It could be better, but it's not exactly a cesspool of awful either. FFXIV is definitely meant to appeal to more than one group of players.

Wish I could say the same about any PvE Duty Finder content which more often (seemingly every Crystal Tower run) just ends up with people hurling insults and abandoning instantly. Always found that amusing considering the crux of any anti-PvP argument always seems to end up being little more than "But PvP is mean!".

CT and WoD in particular can get really terrible. Any DF activity has that potential but those two seem to attract the trolliest trolls. No argument there. I don't PvP, but I like instanced PVP being in the game. It's good for the game I think to have it. Dueling, if players aren't bothered by duel spam (set the flag "no" by default) would be a fine addition. I start getting iffy on larger wPVP implementations, but even that could be implemented in a low-grief way.

I get the feeling that most people's dislike of pvp comes from gank fests in wPVP in other games.