Open World PvP

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I don’t know why it’s fine? Dude, open your eyes. They gave you one less Frontline gear set reward last expansion. That is fine? You talk casual PvP, but you're paying to log on to this game to PvP. Unlike real casual PvP games like LoL or Valorant that are free to play, is it not somewhat an obligation to get an AAA MMORPG PvP experience? I only said WoW because it's their only competitor atm with the exception of Ashes of Creation, also subscription-based, but it's not even AAA. I think it's unfair that you argue to reduce further the already reduced AAA PvP experience FFXIV once offered. On top of this, everyone says PvP is an afterthought (that's my word, you should read what they're really saying). If you are on Twitch, hear what people say about FFXIV PvP. I don’t think you’re being fair and honest with yourself here. Personally, I think they’re refining some things but they’ve taken away the progression, not listening to the community’s pleas regarding cheating, they took away from players that enjoyed every facet their game had to offer.

I must reiterate that if you hear what people say about FFXIV PvP and are honest with yourself and fair to me, an equally paying customer, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. I’m not asking them to take anything away from PvE. That's the main ride. That wouldn’t be right.

They aren’t a small team, and I’m confident they can give PvP a little more attention.

I agree that we get less PvP gears for glamours this expansion, but that's because we get reduced content overall in the game due to the pandemic, so it's understandable.

And yes it's fine that PvP does not get as much focus as PvE because, as have been mentioned multiple times in this thread, this game is not a PvP-oriented MMO. It would get about as much focus as the other side contents.

I also disagree that just because this is a subscription-based MMO, it has to have the same level of PvP with the other subscription-based MMOs. Every subs-based MMO has their own strength, FFXIV just happen to be not it's PvP. I don't know why people subscribe to this game expecting the same level of PvP as WoW when they have never implied this would be the case.

Could they give more focus to PvP? Sure. Would they? At this point, I don't think so.
We just have to wait for the new PvP contents in EW and see how the playerbase responds to it.