Just Delete PvP at this Point

[YukikoKurosawa]

Every single game mode is completely dead save for Frontlines and only because it has a daily roulette

Rival Wings is dead and the mounts are permanently unobtainable to those who didn't already get them when they were still active

Feast continues to have exclusive FOMO rewards given to it that just get's eaten up by win-traders anyway

The vast majority of people who que for Frontlines don't even bother to do objectives and immediately throw the game just to get it over fast so they can get their daily reward out of the way with, and whether or not you win is if you got lucky enough to be put on a team with a higher degree of players who actually care about winning, the team size too large for any one individual player to turn the tide of battle so you win or lose almost entirely based on luck.

An entire game map, Astralagos, has been dead for 3 years because you made it unque-able due to a slight mistake in map design and somehow never fixed it after all this time.

The official PvP subforum is virtually devoid of any activity. It can go days or weeks without anyone posting anything despite the myriad of problems with PvP which should result in loads of posting giving feedback but no it's completely dead here.

And now, despite all these issues, you intend to release a brand new game mode at some undetermined time this expansion, which will be DOA unless you give it daily roulette or some carrot-on-a-stick to incentivize people to do it.

This game's pvp is by far the worst implementation of PvP in any MMO. It's been several years and you've completely failed to get the community to engage with it in any serious capacity. It could be argued that this game's gameplay style just does not suit PvP and I'd agree to some extent, but I think there are a myriad of issues beyond that that COULD be addressed but just aren't and there's zero indication that they ever will.

If you don't intend to critically examine just what's wrong with PvP, and actually make an effort to get the playerbase to engage with it beyond giving them a carrot-on-the-stick (which just promotes people queing to lose on purpose to make the game end faster in order to get their reward as fast as possible) then just remove it altogether. It's clear the community doesn't like it, they only do it for the rewards, many of those rewards are now unobtainable for a large portion of players either due to it being temporary or because the community collectively stopped doing the content that gave them becaues they already got theirs.

It's an absolute joke. It doesn't have to be, but it is. Just remove PvP, give the rewards as obtainable through regular tomestones, and accept you simply could not make an engaging form of PvP content in this game and move on.