Official Open World PvP Petition

[Shake0615]

While this is not a feature that is high on my priority list, and there are a few threads already in existence discussing the possibility, Yoshi-P states here that he will consider adding a single server dedicated to open world PvP if the players express enough interest (right at the 8 min mark). I figured that it would be a good idea to centralize the discussion around the point that he mentioned in the video in a single thread.

So, for those who would like to petition for at least one server offering open world PvP, like this post to let the devs know you are interested.

[Mitsuhide]

Depends on what kind of Open World PvP.
If it just the same Game where Players can hit each, no thank you.
Never been a fan of it.

Id like to see something similar to GW2 with sieges and stuff, where players can build there own stronghold with different properties like Defense Tower or Supply Base which gives different Bonuses if Connected with other bases.
Since frontlines, is in my opionion at least, a success and pretty balanced and more importantly really tactical im kind of seeing yoshi being able to do something like that and i know yoshi hates Crafters but building Bases, sieges e.t.c would give Crafters also a role.

I dont see this happening though but id like to see something like this as i really like frontlines.

[Shake0615]

If it just the same Game where Players can hit each other...

From what I gathered that seems to be what they're referring to. I don't know how they would work it out lore-wise since we're all supposed to be in this together, but I like the idea of being able to fight out in the open. Personally, I'm ambivalent but I know there are others that would like to at least have the option. Will there be enough support to open up a server for it? I have no idea, but I'm interested to find out who and how many are interested.

I suppose another alternative would be to implement a PvP flag that allows you to have the option on all servers. Don't like to PvP? Don't flag yourself for it. WoW used this back in the day (and I assume they still do).

[Xakery]

Id like to see something similar to GW2 with sieges and stuff, where players can build there own stronghold with different properties like Defense Tower or Supply Base which gives different Bonuses if Connected with other bases.
Since frontlines, is in my opionion at least, a success and pretty balanced and more importantly really tactical im kind of seeing yoshi being able to do something like that and i know yoshi hates Crafters but building Bases, sieges e.t.c would give Crafters also a role.

I dont see this happening though but id like to see something like this as i really like frontlines.

you just explained 1.0 hamlets, in a sense

[Kicoe]

Would very much support this.

Looking at stuff like the different region population or overall interest in PVP there would be a bunch of problems probably. Assuming they'd go for one PVP server for each region (NA, EU, JP) I'd be unsure if atleast the EU server would provide a large enough player base to have a healthy economy and such.

Now let's say the player base is large enough etc they need to figure out what kind of OWPVP they want to implement:

*Ganking is fun, on the other side there needs to be a lowbie protection. Assuming you'd flag yourself so you can kill anyone - and be attacked by anyone(being able to attack anyone just like that without being flagged will probably not happen) - you can add a certain amount of points for every lowbie killed, those points disappear after a certain amount of time and until those points are gone you stay flagged. (Stolen from Tera)

*FC vs FC would be cool, give some rewards for a certain amount of wins like mounts/pets/vanity/whatever else that keeps people doing FC vs FC. I'm sure an exclusive housing area or an exclusive plot in the Mist etc for lets say the top three FCs would be motivation enough. That would need a ranking system though, maybe monthly based or something. Problem with that is feeding kills and such, that would need to be prevented somehow before the system goes live. Also, safezone hugging needs to be taken care of: assuming player A from FC Y kills player B from FC Z FC Y would just stay in town til the FC vs FC timer is over so they'd win with one kill. (Also kinda stolen from Tera)

*Overall tracking kills/activity, create a ranking, give the top ranked players exclusive titles/mounts/minions and such. Again, stuff like that has to be monitored so feeding doesn't happen. (probably stolen from Aion, dunno)

[Kinseykinz]

No thanks.

[Sessurea]

No thanks.

haha, ya, no thanks.

Why the hell ?

It would of course exist on a different server, to which I assume pvp enthusiasts will want to exfer to. Will it harm your gaming life so much if people are having fun killing each other on a DIFFERENT server?

Really, I actually hoped every1 would support this, this is really sad. I mean what's the matter, does fighting non-scripted non-npcs frighten people this much? Hunts will actually make sense on a pvp server, also. They could implement stuff like guild vs guild ( or I guess fc vs fc in our case ). Theres just so much they could do with this, and theres no reason to be against it because you can simply choose to not play on a pvp server T_T

[Baneus]

Why the hell ?

It would of course exist on a different server, to which I assume pvp enthusiasts will want to exfer to. Will it harm your gaming life so much if people are having fun killing each other on a DIFFERENT server?

Really, I actually hoped everyone would support this, this is really sad. I mean what's the matter, does fighting non-scripted non-npcs frighten people this much? Hunts will actually make sense on a pvp server, also. They could implement stuff like guild vs guild ( or I guess fc vs fc in our case ). There's just so much they could do with this, and theres no reason to be against it because you can simply choose to not play on a pvp server T_T

So it would be on a brand new server then? Putting it on an existing server would simply destroy the community there. Also; since we all essentially play on a single faction, how would that be reconciled with the main scenario/lore? I mean the whole Gc vs GC thing is already forced and ill fitting. Will we suddenly have access to a Garlean faction? FC vs FC? Why? (though there are certain FCs I wouldn't mind camping in their front yards). You can't simply shoehorn this in. As with everything else FF, there has to be a valid in-game reason for it.

EDIT: that line in Star Wars "you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" describes PvP servers perfectly. In every game they are the worst of the worst. They attract bottom feeding scum like nothing else in this world. They make Revenants Toll trolls look like reasonable people. Why would we want this?

[Sessurea]

So it would be on a brand new server then? Putting it on an existing server would simply destroy the community there. Also; since we all essentially play on a single faction, how would that be reconciled with the main scenario/lore? I mean the whole Gc vs GC thing is already forced and ill fitting. Will we suddenly have access to a Garlean faction? FC vs FC? Why? (though there are certain FCs I wouldn't mind camping in their front yards). You can't simply shoehorn this in. As with everything else FF, there has to be a valid in-game reason for it.

God, if it HAS to fit in with lore, flagged players could be criminals? Use your imagination.

[Shake0615]

God, if it HAS to fit in with lore, flagged players could be criminals? Use your imagination.

Completely agree. It's super easy lore-wise to implement something like this. The notion that people can't fight each other simply because they're all Eorzean is a little silly. By that logic, urban crime shouldn't exist in the real world because we're all citizens of the same city/town/state/country, right?