[Fanfest] Open World PvP

[Lokier]

Now, during Friday's fanfest Yoshida was asked about possible open world PvP. As far as I can see no one's made a specific thread yet about this, as he did wish for player feedback on the topic.
It was also mentioned that, due to the knowledge that some people would not want to PvP in the open world, they would create specific realms for players to go to to PvP.

Question is, do you think this game needs open world PvP? Do you think it will bring in more players? If it was implemented would you prefer it was for all servers (but optional like in WoWs PvE realms), with specifically PvP enabled servers added, or only for specific realms with our realms kept the same?

I personally wouldn't want forced PvP on my realm, Odin, as I'm a "care bear" who only PvPs when I want something. Optional PvP would be fine with me. That, and it would possibly make people actually use the open world that little bit more.

Other than that I think maybe it would be cool to have a map created that is PvP specific, like a few MMOS have already done, where you go to PvP for rewards, etc. However, there is the issue that this map might not be used as much on a PvE realm since most of us play FFXIV because it centres around PvE in the first place.

[Zojha]

Considering how popular PvP is in this game...

I dunno. I think that speaks for itself. Best I could see is a semi-PvP-ish siege map where you are using vehicles and ballista more than actually PvPing with our characters.

[Losstarot]

Now imagine if they do that PvP open world and then they put a unspoiled node in that map, the horrors for gatherers

[Lokier]

Now imagine if they do that PvP open world and then they put a unspoiled node in that map, the horrors for gatherers

I'd imagine they'd maybe turn pvp off for gatherer classes, since they have no battle abilities in the first place /maybe/... Or make it that you have to be on a gatherer / crafter to fight another gatherer / crafter, which sounds hilarious and very, very slow.

[Korihu]

I like PvP but you can't just throw open world PvP into a game that isn't at all designed around PvP and expect it to be anything but a flop. They need to actually work on fixing their instanced PvP first and make FFXIV not a game that so many people know as having terrible PvP.

[Remus]

They already said if they do Open World PVP they would make new servers for it. Also if they do choose to make open world PvP on the current servers you could easily just make it so you can toggle it off or on.

[SpiritMuse]

I don't know if open world pvp would be good for this game. I think one of the reasons the community for this game is so (relatively) nice is that competitiveness is so de-emphasized. If that were to change, I worry that the atmosphere might take a turn for the worse.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

PVP has always been to me, something either a game was designed around, or it wasn't something a game was designed around.

It only works well in the former case, not the latter.

FF14 is a game designed around PVE, not PVP. Open world PVP would not end well here.

[Loony_BoB]

The only case I can think of that open world PVP would work is if it were an opt-in feature and enabled on all servers. You could then simply select /pvp on or something and go crazy with anyone else who has PVP enabled. That should work just fine. Anything beyond that, I feel would be detrimental. PVP servers would split friends from each other.

[Losstarot]

I'd imagine they'd maybe turn pvp off for gatherer classes, since they have no battle abilities in the first place /maybe/... Or make it that you have to be on a gatherer / crafter to fight another gatherer / crafter, which sounds hilarious and very, very slow.

Epic battles with pick axes and hatchets... The node would dissapear a couple of times before someone even dies lol