Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post
That said, please stop painting this broad narrative of "everyone just wants to gank you there". If I know you and we're not actively competing, I'd be just as likely to stop and talk as I would defend myself viciously if you attacked. Of course, I can only speak for myself, but I'm sure PvPers who want open world anything aren't just looking for easy targets. We've got plenty of PvE stuff for that.
This isn’t a “broad narrative.” I’ve been playing different types of MMOs majority of my life. As early as Runescape, of which I was about 11 at the time, I’ve experienced people going out into PVP areas because they needed something from that area, such as the only F2P farming area for rune and adamant ore was in “the Wilderness.” PVPers would farm those areas for easy prey.

I knew people who bragged, happily, about camping in front of dungeons in Archeage and BDO for the easy kills. People would be standing outside the dungeon looking for a group and would be killed by large guilds of players who weren’t looking for a challenge, it was all gang mentality, “get gud.” You were required to go out as prey to get to your dungeons, your materials for crafting, and even questing.

Don’t discredit my years of experience in MMOs as broad speculation and fear mongering. I experienced it in every game that supports Open World PVP. Hell, even WOW players brag about killing new players “just for fun.”

“We are trolls, online trolls, big black hearts instead of souls. Preying on the weak and dumb, just for fun.” It exists. And I joined this game because it doesn’t have that.