PVP - Ideas & Expectations!!

[fmonkey13]

They should have chocobo jousting!!

[weeble]

i think this game needs at least one or the other, large scale pve and party missions(cop,wotg) or it needs pvp, it can't be missing both, i'm hoping for both though in game, cause i'd love me some pvp final fantasy style. anytype an all types i'm cool with.

i been wanting any form of battlegrounds in ffxiv, weither pvp or pve or pvpve, i don't care just want it easy to sign up an auto join an auto port us to it, so i can do it all day long or in between events and doing things in game. great thing for any mmo to have.

if i had to chose though ...i'd take large scale pve an party missions/full ls events. only cause i don't think the pvp would be better then most games out either way. but still i'd love some pvp in game.

[Tatsuguy]

i been wanting any form of battlegrounds in ffxiv, weither pvp or pve or pvpve, i don't care just want it easy to sign up an auto join an auto port us to it, so i can do it all day long or in between events and doing things in game. great thing for any mmo to have

^ fantastic idea. to reward you with marks and other items maybe

[Coombah]

I'm for pvp as long as it doesn't result in ganks and such

[Tatsuguy]

PvP is just another thing people might play ffxiv for, but with the current client/server problem it'd be slop and it being a FF game i would rather have awesome PvE gameplay and i think this game could survive on that, but i dont think FFxiv could be comparable to WoW's pvp, i was solely PvP in WoW and it was the only thing that kept me playing it and i hope FF could make pvp decent, but i have a feeling we wont see PvP for a long time in this game.

[Delmontyb]

I would like to see something like WAR or Rift, where the PvP is objective based and two teams face off against each other to capture the chocobo or something like that.

I'm also for arena PvP etc, as players would enlist into the PvP event.

Whatever they do, I would like it to be something you can queue up to do, and when it's open you can join in, having to run around to find it would be a headache, and thus I would like to port into it.

[Daemion]

First off I'll say this.. Anyone thinking that SE is gonna implement Open World PvP without restrictions is absolutely from another planet. There is no way SE will implement the ability to allow people to grief or gank others in FFXIV. No way, never so you might as well stop talking about it.

I'm def fall in line with the idea of an arena to battle it out with others who 'decide' on their own the want to take part. Whether through a tournament or something similiar. A tournament would be a great idea as it would show whos top dog on each server and people will flock to take their place. Something like this would be a lot of fun. It just one of those things thats hard to do right, as the mechanics with abilities are far different between PvP and PvE in general and any balance toward PvP taken away from PvE means that PvE will suffer, which means the game will suffer.

Also... PvE is NOT Player v. Enemy.. it's Player v. Environment... jus say'n

[Ana]

I think some competitive play is good as it will help the players to progress. Just don't overdo it

[AmyRae]

Ganking is no fun, and I'm sure PvP in FFXIV will never allow it.

I think the Armoury System in FFXIV could allow for some engaging 1-on-1 PvP that just wouldn't be possible in the rigid job-system found in FFXI. There's a lot of opportunity for some creative builds with all the traits and abilities you could possibly throw together. Even being able to set attributes could provide some unexpected advantages.

[Andrien]

There is lots of fun ways for team PvP. Can call it PvP Ops
capture the flag
capture enemy base
assassination (one player is main target and rest of team mates must protect him/her in a certain area)
ballista style pvp

Then we can have Large scale PvE
grand companies against the forces of the Empire and Ishgard

Large scale PvPvE:
Ballista style PvP but with NPC enemies as well. Including the Empire and their machines.

I can go on and on. The fun is there to be had. You just can't be scared about it. I trust the FFXIV dev team, and I'm sure they wont let us down. When Ballista in FFXI was hot, it was the only in game event I enjoyed the most. I can think of only one reason why its not popular now, and that is a lack of dev support, and lack-luster rewards.