Quote Originally Posted by Wintersandman View Post
Factions change all the time though in FFXIV. You can watch Frontlines shift all the time. Also again no one is saying to put questing in the zone.
This month's frontline standings on primal, sorted by victory rate: the top 100 are all maelstrom. If you looked at the top 100 by GC, the lowest ranked mael is at 78% win rate, the lowest flame is at 19%. Aion only had two factions, and it got so bad that the "evil" race had barely any victories on 90% of the servers, and all clustered together on one or two of them. It can get pretty bad if there is any advantage to winning.

And yeah, they need to have some reason to even be in the zone and force pvp. Traditionally its leveling or resource gathering. When you don't have this, like in EVE, you get people endlessly roaming looking for another group to fight, like with the militias.