Quote Originally Posted by Kisagami View Post
This isn’t a “broad narrative.”.
I understand that scepticism, they are bounty/loot hunters. What you have to ask is are those games mindless bounty hunting game or competitive pvp where sportmanship still apply. The PvP i grew up with actually have meaningful relationship with PvE. No bounty/loot from hitting someone but there's 1-2 occasional bully, the pvpers keep them inline and help hunters get their bis in special pvp events. In return the hunters help us on hard world bosses to get our bis. The gear progression sort of drop everywhere. Keeping the peace is just a matter of respect between two sides and I've never had a problem with that. I've been bullied before too and a proper PvPer knows when to stop, when you're dead you're dead, they won't go chasing you around 2nd time for no reason at all.

I'm actually fine without any PvE objectives in a pvp map, I'm not looking for prey. My own experience tells me PvE has more horrible people who won't stop at nothing to get their loot. One of my statics admin was mauled literally in real life for kicking bad seeds out of the group, this is true story. I'm not talking about 8-man statics, it was a 30-man world boss hunting group so there's certain rules for coordinations. That's obviously a law issue but the person quit that game afterwards and I've stopped taking any kind of statics or pve endgame since.