Is anyone else bothered by "Fresh Meat"?

[Sub-Xero]

If you're against the best team in the world you won't even know.

I suspect if that's the case you'll quickly find out it's the best team in the world regardless of the names above their heads.

[Krystalynn]

I dunno, I've done a lot of pvp in a lot of games, and smack talk in mmo pvp is nowhere near as bad as the respect and rivalries that friendly competition tends to entail. Especially when this isn't even faction based pvp. This just waters down the experience greatly, and I honestly think only PvE players who PvP on the side would think this is a good thing. PvP has its own community. Not knowing whom your fighting makes that community stagnant outside of the "Look at me" value of stat progression.

Imagine if you couldn't see your friends in PvE. They all said "Adventurer" or something, and looked the same. It's just a watered down mess. You remove the personal aspect of player-vs-player gameplay, but this is player-vs-avatar instead. I know most of you can't be bothered to care because that's the kind of forum this is, but it's still a legitimate complaint, and one born of experience, and disappointment.

Fresh Meat could have been an option for the player wishing to mask their identity if such a concern was theirs to have, but it shouldn't have been forced on everyone.

[Vampt]

I dunno, I've done a lot of pvp in a lot of games, and smack talk in mmo pvp is nowhere near as bad as the respect and rivalries that friendly competition tends to entail. Especially when this isn't even faction based pvp. This just waters down the experience greatly, and I honestly think only PvE players who PvP on the side would think this is a good thing. PvP has its own community. Not knowing whom your fighting makes that community stagnant outside of the "Look at me" value of stat progression.

Imagine if you couldn't see your friends in PvE. They all said "Adventurer" or something, and looked the same. It's just a watered down mess. You remove the personal aspect of player-vs-player gameplay, but this is player-vs-avatar instead. I know most of you can't be bothered to care because that's the kind of forum this is, but it's still a legitimate complaint, and one born of experience, and disappointment.

Better said than i could

[jebali]

care less about the title not happy with forced party make up so dps is going to sit in que all day long every day waiting on tanks

[WellGramarye]

Well you could say... everyone is going to have to.....

beat...

the meat.

[Azures]

Fresh Meat ? Isn't that the term they use in prison :P

[Xayoc]

As a pvp'r since mmo's came about it kind of annoys me that everyone will have "Fresh Meat" title. Not because it will make calling targets a tiny bit harder. "focus the blm" etc., but because it will not grow a pvp community.

As weird as it sounds its nice to know who you fight, win and lose to. Makes for a stronger pvp community imo.

A good team labels the other team first thing out the gate. 1, 2, 3, 4. Makes it real easy to call targets.

[Warrlordd]

I can agree with th OP.

on the other hand, it would save me from having to call out 'Target lilililiilililiilil... that guy with the dumb name'

[cotti]

The name is great, and this discussion does not need a new special thread. If you want your opinion to really have a bit of value, reinforce the existing biggest complaint thread instead of contributting to the clutter just because your late opinion is so special.