With the recent hunt complains..(open world pvp)

[KaedrianLiang]

In order to participate in "the hunt" players must wear an Allied tabard thats designed behind their GC of choice. While wearing this tabard you are open to be attacked by anyone, including players of your own GC and party.

I can see it now. Early pullers getting walloped by 20-50 players, would be golden, but then other things can happen, like the 10 drgs that jumped on their target getting wiped out by an onslaught of incoming AoE's

[Valkyrie-Amber]

Would be nice if you could challenge people and groups wherever to a duel rather than waste years in pvp queues.

[BannedatRegistration]

Obvious attempt to troll, and I've seen better.

Do not forget you too can be hunted just as well.

In fact, I would purposefully create a linkshell network designed to hunt PKers that target the weak or unsuspecting, and hunt them viciously. Just like A/S ranks. I would report griefers to the LS and actively hunt them.And enjoy it.

It's fine if you like PvP. I like it too. But wanting it purely to cause drama or grief is precisely reason why you don't (and shouldn't) get it. If that's what you truly want, I'd suggest a different game. You would not be welcome here.

#WhySoSerious

[Gyson]

Are you trying to kill this game? I think in every game that has offered open-world PvP as an optional server choice, it has always been the less popular choice to PvE servers. I get that it's a drag for players who love PvP, and I wish there was an optional server for you all to do your thing, but forcing PvP on the rest of the community would be the mother of horrible mistakes.

[AnimaAnimus]

Worst part of WoW was the constant pvp challenges. As someone who has 0 interest in pvp it was a nuisance and one of the reasons I left after lvl 30.

[Pyroxene]

I'd like to make a suggestion from someone who greatly enjoys pvp, and even better pvp at its truest form. (open world pvp)

Recently people are complaining about hunts again like they did when they first came out and I've been thinking of something but never really asked anyone for their opinion, how would people feel about open world pvp?

Picture rolling up with your FC and getting rid of those pesky early pullers who tease you in shout and destroying them?

How about that pvp gear you have that does nothing but look pretty, wouldn't you rather smash some skulls with it?

It's a fun idea I've been thinking of, obviously won't ever happen since people rather RP than pvp but coming from a pvp background I'd enjoy it.

Just no, the endless crying it would cause "WAHH! I got ganked" "MOAR GRIEFERZ PLZ!!" "Y NO COMPLETE QUEST WITH PVP"

While YOU may enjoy it, those being ganked would not unless there was a way to turn it off (thereby not being world PvP) it would be placing the wishes of one kind of player over another's which is wrong. Both pay the same amount to enjoy the game, both should be allowed.
That's why BG's were created, so people could PvP without negatively impacting on those who play for other reasons

Blame player attitudes and self entitlement

[Urthdigger]

Yeah... I guarantee this won't be used primarily for meting out justice upon those who defy the will of the community and troll the community. It'll primarily be parties of folks ganking people trying to get their quests done or gather mats.

[hyko]

if they announce open world pvp I will unsub and delete the game off my hdd rather than having to deal with getting ganked

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Hard to see how I'm trolling when you just described the ideal situation I'd look for in open world pvp and agreed with it, guess we both want the same thing.

Wrong. You clearly said "the best drama comes from hitting unsuspecting players pveing"

Do correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like that's what you WANT to do. If so, I find that pretty deplorable. But of course, that's not what you meant, right? Lol. Nah, open world PvP for everyone, to solve the not-actually-big problem of rude/impatient players engaging in the hunts! It's super-effective! . . . Open world PvP wouldn't fix the hunt. It would kill it. Why? Because every hunt mob suddenly becomes one big bait in an area-wide trap.

Let's look at the bigger picture here: Consider the PvP maps, and the (few but effective) hiding places. Then consider the layout of each PvE area. One is designed with PvP in mind, and the other purely is not. Consider natural threats and the positions of them. What about fates? Gathering nodes? Aetheryte camps. Sightseeing vistas. Leves. Quest locations. . . None of that is designed with the possible complication of player-based danger in mind. And if people had to watch their back just to go out and attune an aetheryte, or hunt a daily B rank, not only would people stop calling them out, they'd actively stop hunting. The domino effect would only begin there.

Now sure, the answer could be a PvP server. And I might even be inclined to check it out. But trying to fix issues with one type of content by just adding another is simply, poor in practice. Lest we forget the hunt imbalance essentially had to be fixed with a little thing called Nexus light farming. (Yes, SE, some of us did read between those lines and see it for what it was.)

[Seoulstar]

From my past experiences with open world PVP..it's a love/hate relationship. I love it for the thrill, but I hate it when people use it to bully. Take for instance you're trying to get an S rank, but can't because there are bigger groups around who will swarm you in a heartbeat thus forcing you out of the zone. Or you're trying to quest and some bored player kills you. Even worse, there are bored players who will camp a questing area preventing anyone from doing their quests. But not all of it was bad. There were guilds (or in terms of this game, FC's) that were made solely to protect others. But even being in those guilds couldn't stop being outnumbered 3 to 1. Anyways back on topic..I feel open world PVP would not be such a great idea here. That doesn't mean they can't add something like a PVP button where you can turn it on if you want to engage in PVP or just keep it off if you want to avoid it.