Open World PvP

[Delis]

No it does not. If they have rolled somewhere where they can be PvPed at a wedding, they should be expecting the possibility of having to defend their event. A lot of fun has been had in games with event crashings. It should be fun for both sides really. I've seen event hosts have their guild, or friends as guards to defend the event. A lot of player cooperation. It really is quite fun.

I literally just posted about guards at events!

Yes! I use to be a guard for my guild in another mmo on the pvp server. It was fun, we would do patrols, we had scouts running around the area keeping an eye out for any threats. It was a lot of fun, and no bad blood between people.

[DPZ2]

... and no bad blood between people.

< Flashbacks of non-PvP worlds with dozens of dead quest givers and flight masters, every day at 5 pm CDT/CST, for months and months >

< Flashbacks of Rogues in PvP, who could basically run circles around non-rogues in PvP on non-PvP worlds, killing every single NPC in an area you just flew in to in order to level up. Rogues who stayed around long enough doing it again and again in order to make leveling for the day a living hell for non-PvP players >

Sure. No bad blood. whatsoever.

Nope. The day open world PvP hits a server on FFXIV is the day I quit and spend my money on something else.

And remember, all you PvP fanciers out there who would shout "good riddance!" ... no bad blood between people. Pfui.

[Delis]

< Flashbacks of non-PvP worlds with dozens of dead quest givers and flight masters, every day at 5 pm CDT/CST, for months and months >

< Flashbacks of Rogues in PvP, who could basically run circles around non-rogues in PvP on non-PvP worlds, killing every single NPC in an area you just flew in to in order to level up. Rogues who stayed around long enough doing it again and again in order to make leveling for the day a living hell for non-PvP players >

Sure. No bad blood. whatsoever.

Nope. The day open world PvP hits a server on FFXIV is the day I quit and spend my money on something else.

And remember, all you PvP fanciers out there who would shout "good riddance!" ... no bad blood between people. Pfui.

Way to take my quote out of context. You do realize we were talking about player run events and the people hosting the event having guards. My no bad blood was to the people attacking the event and the guards marching out and meeting the attackers and protecting the event. It was fun and no one had bad blood because they were doing it to have fun and we were having fun too. No where was I talking about attacking npcs etc. You would also quit if the game ever added pvp servers? Servers you dont have to play on. Talk about thin skinned and a bit childish. Oh no they added a server for people that like a certain content that I dont have to partake in. Guess its time to take my ball and go home. *sniff sniff*

[TaleraRistain]

< Flashbacks of non-PvP worlds with dozens of dead quest givers and flight masters, every day at 5 pm CDT/CST, for months and months >

Yep, WoW, the Barrens, being a low level Horde just trying to do your quests on any server you were unlucky enough to choose that had a high Alliance population. Or vice versa. People think that opt-in won't affect others. But it does in ways like that. I can't tell you how many times I couldn't do things in Undercity or The Barrens because it was a favorite target of the Alliance on my server. WoW also wasn't particularly fun because you could be forced into PvP by getting close to an area of the opposite faction without realizing it. And there were plenty of opportunists who would lie in wait for new folks doing just that. Or people trying to do some of the summer events that intentionally were placed in the opposite faction's area but weren't actually considered PvP achievements since you could "technically" do them without engaging with the other faction.

Some people in this thread are asking for separate PvP servers. Okay, got no problem with that. Don't even have an issue with development time on it if the appeal is widespread enough to keep them populated. But even opt-in on a PvE server has ripple effects. And like someone said, no one is afraid of the PKers. They don't want to deal with the bullshit when they're just trying to enjoy some time in the game.