Request: OPEN WORLD PVP

[FoxyAreku]

Stuff like Winterspring or Tol Barad from WoW would be the best bet for this. All out world pvp is stupid though, and if done would require its own servers.

Like, PvP servers are kinda okay in WoW, even with maxes ganking lowbies (which is really annoying and drives lots of people off of them), though I don't think it would work very well in this game.

Botany/Mining/Fishing would be completely impossible, for starters.

[ulti_19]

I wish they do. PvP is the only thing I care about in the end and long term of a game. To compete against others and have fun doing it. Running dungeons a million times to farm gear can be ok... for so long, but fighting people vs cpu, is a whole different set of skills imo.

Memorizing each stage of boss fights isn't skill. Fighting unique pvp fights with different situations is.

[Baneus]

Nope. That type of community needs to stay exactly where it is - not in FF14.

[skho01]

Nope. That type of community needs to stay exactly where it is - not in FF14.

What type of community? An OPTION for people to participate in objective based world PVP beyond the set cap of 72 players in an instanced fight? The logic here is voluntary op in. You can still do all the things you want to do now if you choose to. Nothing changed. In its current state, people that enjoyed open world PVP do not even have the option.

Player driven content drives the narrative of the game. If everything is caged and heavily restricted in small scale instances, we'll only get more FATE grinds like Hunt/ATMA chain.

[Divinemight]

What type of community?

You have a beautiful statement. Did you also option out the hard cold truth about "World PvP"? World PvP is just a decoration of ganking. There is no fairness, no competition. It will always end up a group of people sweeping around the map to kill those solo option in.

[skho01]

You have a beautiful statement. Did you also option out the hard cold truth about "World PvP"? World PvP is just a decoration of ganking. There is no fairness, no competition. It will always end up a group of people sweeping around the map to kill those solo option in.

Cold hard truth of "World PVP" is player driven experience. Sure there will be roaming ganks on solo op-ins. But that's an option a player choose to be a part of. That's the risk the player took when they opted in. I argue that anyone should still be able to do all the things they're doing now if they choose to. But if someone wants to take the risk and opt in on getting gank, they have that option.

Whereas currently, that is not even an option. Everyone is opt-ed out by default.

[Divinemight]

Everyone is opt-ed out by default.

You might as well just to request a PvP server instead of installing a mechanic on a player community origin from PvE. The truth is you are not even going to see a lot of people option in for PvP. This can be reference to WoW's PvE server. It is simply pointless.

[Rubicant]

Or make specific zones where this can happen.
DAoC, Warhammer, and several other games do that. You have the "Frontier" zones where there is PvP and PvP objectives, and then the rest of the world where there is no PvP.
FFXIV would be a lot like the DAoC servers that were "co-op" where all three realms could go anywhere, join any guild etc... but out in the frontier it was Guild vs Guild, or realm vs realm. Those who didn not wish to participate could simple just no go to the PvP area and there was tons of stuff for them to do.
I think an addition of an zone or two that is like that would be awesome.

[skho01]

Or make specific zones where this can happen.
DAoC, Warhammer, and several other games do that. You have the "Frontier" zones where there is PvP and PvP objectives, and then the rest of the world where there is no PvP.
FFXIV would be a lot like the DAoC servers that were "co-op" where all three realms could go anywhere, join any guild etc... but out in the frontier it was Guild vs Guild, or realm vs realm. Those who didn not wish to participate could simple just no go to the PvP area and there was tons of stuff for them to do.
I think an addition of an zone or two that is like that would be awesome.

This would be a good compromise. A zone specific to PVP. However, for the incentive to truly work (up drop rates for things like ATMA, Alexandrites, etc), a worldwide approach is the best case scenario. Unless they actually make those things drop at a reasonable rate. Then zone specific to open world PVP could work too.

[echoica]

No thanks.