There was a mentioned thing about a status that could be clicked on for those that want to partake in it. I'd be fine with that.

I despise open world pvp for the harassment aspect. There's a lot of low-life players that would camp low-level zones just to one-shot new players over and over again. Also this would let bots rule the overworld. They would just hide underground and pelt people with spells and/or bullets/arrows with 0 retaliation against them. Doing MSQ or sidequests only to get killed for walking by underground bots? Yeah. 11/10 experience there amirite.