Quote Originally Posted by Kisagami View Post
Because people get toxic. Competition in gaming is not sportsmanlike. Look at Overwatch. Look at WOW. I want a relaxing sense of community where people aren’t screaming about banging my mother or threatening me in real life just because I may have killed them. I hate having storyline interrupted by the selfishness or others who just want cheap kills by camping areas people rez in. It is a cycle of behavior that ruins the relaxing atmosphere of FF14. You’re working together in PVE content; it breeds being kind to each other. As you’re held accountable to your behavior; bad behavor, nobody dungeons with you. In PVP those ideals go out the window - it’s only “fun” if you hunt and harass people.

TL;DR Add an open PVP area, here comes the bad actors from WoW, Archeage, Destiny, and Overwatch. It wouldn’t be your kind of PVPers you claim you are in FF14. Here come the people who love to ruin other’s fun.
There's a lot of things I would contest in your statement.

Let's not act like people don't bicker and argue over hunts. Let's not act like all was fair and peaceful with the Shirogane housing rush. Or in dungeons or alliance raids when people are impatient or repeatedly perform wrong. Let's not act like people don't perform wrong on purpose just to upset others. Let's not act like people don't steal from FCs or maliciously undercut others on the market board. Let's not act like people don't judge and berate others for parses, despite the taboo of even parsing in the first place.

Bad behavior is not unique nor exclusive to PvP, and it's time to stop treating it like it is, or that it's a source of it. If that were the case, the above wouldn't happen so frequently, in content that has absolutely nothing to do with competition in the first place. It IS possible to be sportsmanlike in competitive gaming. Professionals do exactly that, and even then, it's not an exclusive right and privilege for them. We're all adults here, no one should NEED to be told to behave themselves and not act like a jerk, and yet many do, and without ever stepping foot in PvP. So it's not the grand source of toxicity people would make it out to be. And it goes without saying that because people like that exist, there are rules. There are ToS and reporting systems. But again, we're all adults. Behaving shouldn't be something most people need to learn to do the hard way.

Only fun if you hunt and harass people? Maybe for someone who just has that kind of ill temperament. Speaking only for myself, I enjoy PvP more when there's active, fierce competition. Sure, tempers might flare, passions might burn really hot, but nothing is more thrilling than a competition where both sides are giving 100%. The fun IS the competition. Do you know what comes out of that, more often than not in this game? People acknowledge each others' skills. It makes them want to work together. They become friends. Maybe you've had some bad experiences that have soured you, and that's truly unfortunate. But as an avid Destiny and Overwatch player as well, I can easily enjoy a heated match and go all out against someone, and assuming they're not just a nasty person with a bad attitude, I can enjoy it without treating it as some fun-ruining event that defines competitive gaming for me.

Mileage may vary from person to person, but don't fault competitive gaming/competitive modes/maps for the actions of negative people. The examples I gave show they'll be just as nasty even without competition involved.