An Open-World PvP Zone or Two

[DarkStar]

Back when I played WoW, I decided to try out some light PVP content, just to see what it was like. Specifically, I tried capturing the towers in Eastern Plaguelands. Now, this was after Burning Crusade had launched, and so high-level old-world zones like that were mostly abandoned. Not abandoned enough, however. I got ganked, and then, when I ran back to my corpse and revived, I got ganked again. By the same guy. Third time, I ran back, but rather than reviving immediately, I looked around a bit, and found the guy waiting for me to revive. Not knowing how to turn off PVP at the time, I wound up corpse-running all the way to a safe zone, because this prick apparently never got tired of ganking a newbie long past the point all his gear had broken.

And that is also why I don't want to see Open World PVP in FFXIV. As it is, I already hate the concept of ANY PVP in FFXIV, but at least it's completely closed-off and seperate from the rest of the game, and I don't have to even acknowledge its existence, as it will NEVER affect me.

So, yeah, sorry, but by my experience, anyone who WANTS Open-World PVP is no better than another griefer who just wants to see regular players such as myself littering the ground while they teabag the corpses.

Ever since that occasion, I refused to touch anything even vaguely related to PVP with a 10-foot-pole, no matter how cool the reward looked, no matter how much the developers or the game promised it'd be 'all in good fun'. Because I knew that griefing jerkwads like that would be around, no matter how 'friendly' the game claimed to be.

[Jaykos]

Back when I played WoW, I decided to try out some light PVP content, just to see what it was like. Specifically, I tried capturing the towers in Eastern Plaguelands. Now, this was after Burning Crusade had launched, and so high-level old-world zones like that were mostly abandoned. Not abandoned enough, however. I got ganked, and then, when I ran back to my corpse and revived, I got ganked again. By the same guy. Third time, I ran back, but rather than reviving immediately, I looked around a bit, and found the guy waiting for me to revive. Not knowing how to turn off PVP at the time, I wound up corpse-running all the way to a safe zone, because this prick apparently never got tired of ganking a newbie long past the point all his gear had broken.

And that is also why I don't want to see Open World PVP in FFXIV. As it is, I already hate the concept of ANY PVP in FFXIV, but at least it's completely closed-off and seperate from the rest of the game, and I don't have to even acknowledge its existence, as it will NEVER affect me.

So, yeah, sorry, but by my experience, anyone who WANTS Open-World PVP is no better than another griefer who just wants to see regular players such as myself littering the ground while they teabag the corpses.

Ever since that occasion, I refused to touch anything even vaguely related to PVP with a 10-foot-pole, no matter how cool the reward looked, no matter how much the developers or the game promised it'd be 'all in good fun'. Because I knew that griefing jerkwads like that would be around, no matter how 'friendly' the game claimed to be.

Wah wah wah. I'd corpse camp you so hard on my rogue it would force you to log off.

[Gilraen]

Wah wah wah. I'd corpse camp you so hard on my rogue it would force you to log off.

Yeah, that's the thing to say to get the point across about how harmless open world PvP would be. Nice choice of words.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

So you'd want just a giant single zone map then?

[Amused]

I'd rather get a duel option instead of an open world pvp zone.

[FoxNoir]

I'd like a PVP zone as long as it is completely optional, with no exclusive pve type resources or pve quests that would require pve players to enter and get ganked. Maybe the zone could only be unlocked at level 50 after completing a FL & WD match. They'd have to limit communication with players outside of your party to prevent griefing. I'd like to be able to communicate with my FC though. Just a players class would be displayed like FL, and possibly the FC name for FC vs FC battles.

[OdinEon]

I kind of agree, I don't pvp much, but I can think of a few players that I wouldn't mind asking to step outside and woop they azz.

[CSX]

SE can easily copy paste that zone they added for TERA. Like TERA, we have three city states / factions.

The way I understood it was, you gather resources for your base using invis. items / sneaking around in an area that was shared with the other 2 hostile factions but the invis was so that you can be spotted up close. All three of the faction bases went into a vulnerable state after a certain amount of time and open for attack too. It was all open-world.

The only thing they need to fix though, is change it so that it's for PVP stuff only. In TERA you had to go in there for the best PVE stuff too, which was kind of dumb.