With the recent hunt complains..(open world pvp)

[Kyuuen]

Open world PVP no, no thanks. That would only add to the toxicity of an already toxic hunt oriented problem. The gear concept is fine, but mandatory open world PvP, no.

Challenge based duels; sure, but give me the option in an option menu to opt myself out of ever getting said challenges, otherwise it would be just like WoW. Some clown wanting to make some mundane point and spamming someone with challenges, interrupting someones play.

[Slappah]

Holy crap people.

Why are so many people threatening to unsub or saying it would be the end of xiv for them? O.o like wow...ok..

I get it..you don't want to PvP, that's fine. I respect that, as should anyone else.
But open world PvP would obviously be limited to certain special open world PvP servers. So what does that effect?

Why would you not want them to add content that you wouldn't even notice? It doesn't hurt anyone, only helps those who want it.

I would support this idea, even though I'm 98% sure it will never be added, only because nobody should ever say NO to new content even if you don't like it. Others will and it could help support the game, and if it supports the game I support it.

[Ayuhra]

I think it would be hard to implement elegantly. Most games with PvP dedicated servers or even a battleground with a lot of focus on it have a faction war at the heart of them like Horde vs Alliance or Aldmeri Dominion vs Ebonheart Pact vs Daggerfall Covenant or East vs West.

The only faction wars I could have seen FFXIV set up to make PvP plausible lore-wise (and EVERYTHING in this game has a lore explanation) is the Grand Companies but obviously that's not how the story of Eorzea goes.

There is also the fact that there is a fundamental paradigm shift that occurs when you start introducing more hardcore PvP or PvP at all to a game. The playerbase shifts and balancing classes changes. Look at WoW! After Arena that game never quite recovered.

[SakuraMidori]

All this do is allow camping fc just kill one other and there be no hunts going on just ppl killing each other for a drop :P that just bring out more toxic players

[AskaRay]

Holy crap people.

Why are so many people threatening to unsub or saying it would be the end of xiv for them? O.o like wow...ok..

I get it..you don't want to PvP, that's fine. I respect that, as should anyone else.
But open world PvP would obviously be limited to certain special open world PvP servers. So what does that effect?

Why would you not want them to add content that you wouldn't even notice? It doesn't hurt anyone, only helps those who want it.

I would support this idea, even though I'm 98% sure it will never be added, only because nobody should ever say NO to new content even if you don't like it. Others will and it could help support the game, and if it supports the game I support it.

Rather they'd spend time developing content that most people would enjoy.

[Enthy]

You should be able to have a "PvP seeking" Status. People who have status active can engage each other.

Honestly, the only reason I don't PvP is because everyone is named "Fresh Meat" I want to know who exactly I'm fighting. Competition and Rivalry is actually FUN.

Although I was never a frequent winner in FFXI's Balista, It was fun to fight my brother, LS leader, and friends. we'd even place bets.

[Reaperking386]

the problem is not hunts, the problem is having hunts be the only way to upgrade your armor to ilvl180.

[Adire]

As long as the pvp is optional, I'm all for it.

I've played open world pvp games where it's not an option. It ends badly. Max leveled, heavily geared people sitting outside safe zones to trap players inside comes to mind.

[Luso]

(open world pvp)

No thanks.

[MetaRed]

So the solution to badly designed content like A and S rank hunts is to poorly implement some even more toxic, potentially unbalanced mess like open world PVP? No thanks X 100000


Personally it's far more annoying in my opinion to see all these self entitled whiny people shout their displeasure with not getting credit for a hunt because it wasn't pulled to their standard of what an appropriate amount of time is.


Hunts are lame face roll content and unless one spawns in my face I ignore this content completely for the most part. If you want to hunt thats your perogative, but the people that whine in shout because they didn't get credit are more annoying to me than gill seller tells.

In general people should let it go if they don't get full credit, it could be a lot worse / harder to do than it currently is. Anyone that remembers hunting notorious monsters in FFXI for rare items only to be beaten by a Japanese player on the claim due to server latency knows true frustration.