Will this game ever get open world pvp?

[Reimmi]

AN open zone designed around it would be cool
The entire game though? No, open world pvp in wow tends to just lend to griefing and who has more numbers, let alone the fact it'd make no sense story wise unlike wow

[Truen]

No way it'll happen. This is an MMO-lite. Something like that is way to hardcore for FF14.

[SnowVix]

Just imagine ganking people that are viewing cutscenes or in a gatherer spec.

I know it would probably be a mess but funny nonetheless. Maybe a special pvp server?

No.
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[Lanadra]

I'm surprised at how many people are responding as if OP is serious.. like.. read the OP again.. you guys realize everything about it is designed only to get reactions, to get a rise out of people, right..?

That's why all I posted in my earlier post was a 'nice try' meme.

[Divinemights]

There are many reasons that people engage in OW PVP, ganking and twinking are part of the motives but OW PVP can also lead to some fun fights. It may not be something that you personally enjoyed in one specific game, that doesn't necessarily make it something that cannot be enjoyable in every game, however I believe it is one of the more difficult parts of game design.

The fraction of people with intention your described is so small while majority of these self-proclaimed "World PvPers" comes with ill intentions.
They are just player killers.
World PvP only works at instance where Horde attack Alliance capital (vice versa) will lead to some fun fights, most of them, is opposite of what you are describing.

[Avidria]

Probably not. This isn't really a PvP game. There do seem to be some fairly active and dedicated PvP groups, but I mean. PvP still has its own slew of issues that don't seem to be getting resolved any time soon, and some that imo will always be issues. The entirely separate hotbars alone would make open world PvP a challenge. They'd have to completely overhaul the PvP system to make it happen, and make it limited to certain servers too probably for exactly the reason of people screwing with folks doing story or crafting or whatever. I just don't see it happening.

I'm surprised at how many people are responding as if OP is serious.. like.. read the OP again.. you guys realize everything about it is designed only to get reactions, to get a rise out of people, right..?

That's why all I posted in my earlier post was a 'nice try' meme.

You're probably right, but I've seen enough similar posts that were a liiiiittle to serious to seem, well, not serious to believe there are people genuinely wanting this out there lol
Not just in this game either. WoW forums during the whole shift to war mode or whatever were a nightmare.

[Rezef]

Would definitely be fun but the game is not made for this kind of content therefore I think it would end up as a disaster. Just have a look at the already established pvp and you'll get your answer why this won't be happening in XIV.

[Arrius]

The fraction of people with intention your described is so small while majority of these self-proclaimed "World PvPers" comes with ill intentions.
They are just player killers.
World PvP only works at instance where Horde attack Alliance capital (vice versa) will lead to some fun fights, most of them, is opposite of what you are describing.

They also had to incentivize people to actually do World PvP with the War Mode in BFA (because it was all about Alliance vs Horde in that expansion), which gave considerate PvE XP/Gold/Azerite bonuses.

Otherwise they never would've bothered with it in the first place because they know how vicious PvP can get.

[Bright-Flower]

They also had to incentivize people to actually do World PvP with the War Mode in BFA (because it was all about Alliance vs Horde in that expansion), which gave considerate PvE XP/Gold/Azerite bonuses.

Otherwise they never would've bothered with it in the first place because they know how vicious PvP can get.

And at least back when I was still playing, they had to keep on bribing the alliance with extra rewards on top of that because of an overwhelming faction imbalance.

[Zileth]

It might be nice to have an open zone for PVP. Not the entire would, but a designated zone where you could go in without time limits or objectives and just beat the snot out of each other. An entire PVP server though? Please no. This isn't the right game for that.

This wouldnt be a bad idea however they would have to make worth peoples time to go into that zone