Quote Originally Posted by Auteur View Post
At risk of being accused of using Trump tactics, the point is that PvP needs be made viable in this game to channel the competitive angst endemic to NA players. That's a major cultural difference between JP and NA (esp USA), which makes a PvE only game like PSO2 great in JP but dead on arrival in NA: the JP player base is on average much more able to act cooperatively. "Competitive PvE" is a misnomer and it's bad that competitiveness is being solely channeled into PvE, leading to poor recommendations for the game's overall health (like bad power spiking of PvE content).

Also, the benefit of having PvP is being able to bifurcate and channel certain toxic hardcore players (i.e. toxic to the base at large) into that arena where that mindset is to be expected and is ok.
On the one hand, it wasn't necessary to bring politics into the thread in any capacity; never ends well. On the other, I did get a good laugh. So let's call it a wash, haha!