Open World PvP

[Roeshel]

You’re fundamentally mistaken in seeing ganking someone on a pvp server or someone that has otherwise opened themselves for pvp as griefing.

You are literally giving them what they signed up for. If they’re unprepared, you’re giving them exactly what they should expect.
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Instead of getting upset over someone making you feel a sad and writing a page in a report, the system gives you all the tools you need to create a bitter rivalries or steadfast alliances.

Oh. Come to think of it, we already have pvp. Players just try to fight over getting each other banned via ticket instead of getting each other to quit by a perfect gank.

Griefing definition: Griefing is the act of chronically causing consternation to other members of an online community, or more specifically, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay.

How is ganking someone so much that they end up quitting the game, which is what you prefer doing with your "perfect ganks", something other than griefing? And how is allowing such type of gameplay in any way beneficial for a game? A minority would get to create "bitter rivalries or steadfast alliances" at the expense of countless people who would have their gameplay ruined because of open-world PvP. And obviously, if you make open-world PvP not mandatory and on different servers those servers would be completely deserted. Because nobody signs up to get ganked.