Open World PvP

[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.