Quote Originally Posted by Moonlite View Post
It is not arena it is objective based PvP. This is so weird a complaint. You don't need to kill players to capture the flag, you don't need to kill players when you hold a base, you don't need to kill players when doing some other objective game. Not that PvP is sport, but other games have you doing other stuff that is secondary and just as important to winning. FFXIV also does have a kill centric PvP.


Let us also take into consideration a player saying that. Probably has a pug, kind of a shitty team composition, proteams earlier that day got stomped, seen enough dps that can't focus on the healer while a competent control is going on a second healer. The best option and lowest common denominator is focus the objective and hope for a little luck as it is a 1vs1vs1. You have a premade or a bunch of quality players you have seen and trust stomping is way more fun. I haven't pvped in 2 years, but I see very few pvp titles or players that I would think have even 300 games. Getting the masses to hit giant blue glowing shards isn't a bad idea.
You do realize that the other players are also an objective, right? You gain high/fever which gives you an advantage. You gain points / they lose points. You REMOVE enemy players from the field making it easier to capture the big objectives.

So yeah, you don't NEED to kill players to capture a base...but it will be a halluva lot easier to take a base when your enemy is dead and they're getting longer and longer respawns.

Your second paragraph proves what I've been saying for YEARS now; the biggest issue with PvP is the community and the fact that they don't want to improve. Not sure how to fix that. SE pls nuke Eorzea again so that we can be reborn as a more PvP focused MMO.