What happened "area based" PvP?

[Ichimaru]

I came across this interview from 2011 discussing PvP in 2.0. I know we have frontlines/wolves den now....but I think this idea would have been better. It could add life to the open world. Also, people who want to watch PvP fights could do so and cheer their favorite fighter!

JPGAMES.DE, Michael: The plans for player versus player have been released already, will this content be totally optional like in FINAL FANTASY XI and will there be new skills for the player versus player action?

Yoshida Naoki: First of all, PvP is going to be based on areas, unless you go to that area you won’t be engulfed in any PvP activities. Even if you try get into that area by mistake, you will see a warning like “There is PvP going on in this area, are you sure you want to join?” We will make sure to let the players know when they enter a PvP area.

I don’t have any plans to make a PvP-only server. Because it is area based, we don’t think we need any servers where you can PvP everywhere.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Probably dropped it like the many interviews they had about being able to summon a real primal in a boss fight.

[Nalien]

Probably dropped it like the many interviews they had about being able to summon a real primal in a boss fight.

That's still in the works, actually. They're just not releasing it until it makes sense within the story.

But yeah, dropped. Non-instanced content? In my FFXIV? Madness. Given PvPs tendency to randomly 90k us, that's probably a good thing, too.

[Dimitrii]

This would have made for an intriguing and fun concept on paper but I'm not sure how well it would work in practice since it would restrict pvp to players within your own server. The pvp queues for some people are already pretty long even though the current system pulls players from multiple servers (within the same data center) to participate in a pvp match. If you restrict the pool even further, in this case to members of your own server only, it will just exacerbate the current issue. At least on my current server anyway as PvP doesnt seem to be as popular there.