I love FF and I love PvP...one could only hope!

good question. As far as I know there are no details on PvP as of yet.

Hopefully not, as that only ruins the PvE experience and then you have constant tweaks and changes to balance all the classes based on the stupid PvP BS.  FFXI has done great for the past 7 years with the little PvP they have and it has never effected the PvE and I sure as hell hope it stays that way!

A BLM should damn well so way more damage than a WAR sword strike, and a RNG bow shot should hit with much better accuracy and dmg than a SAM with a bow!  Balancing classes so they're on equal footing is not required in PvE, screw PvP, as there are plenty of games already with it and look how great they're doing....yeah...heh!

Originally posted by Khrymson

Hopefully not, as that only ruins the PvE experience and then you have constant tweaks and changes to balance all the classes based on the stupid PvP BS.  FFXI has done great for the past 7 years with the little PvP they have and it has never effected the PvE and I sure as hell hope it stays that way!

 

A BLM should damn well so way more damage than a WAR sword strike, and a RNG bow shot should hit with much better accuracy and dmg than a SAM with a bow!  Balancing classes so they're on equal footing is not required in PvE, screw PvP, as there are plenty of games already with it and look how great they're doing....yeah...heh!

I have to agree i dont want to play a Final Fantasy to go kill other players i want to play to join with friends and go kill some hard bosses. 

I agree with the poster above me.  As well as they are going to have to find that balance between the solo/group, casual/hardcore aspect of the game, they will have to find that balance between the PvP/PvE aspect of the game.  All of those abilities to choose it what it takes to make a good game in the MMORPG genre. Those, along with immersiveness, combat, and overall feel of the game will play a critical factor in the success of FFXIV, like all other MMO's.  I found the whole Ballista aspect of FFXI very flawed and stale.  I didn't feel like there was any real reason to do it, and hopefully they make some sort of more sweetening reward for being successful than simply some exp and a title "Rook Buster."

Gods, I hope not.

Personally I am not an MMO pvp fan, because I think its to slow. However I do hope it has pvp in it, but not a main role in the game. Something along the lines of how ffxi did it.

if it has PVP I hope it will be completely secondary with no class balancing.

When a Galka monk came on the battlefield it was a very scary experience......the only question was how many would he kill in a row....not weather he kills or not.

Yeah I would seriously give this game a shot if it had some pvp and not so many whiney anti-pvp carebears.

I Personaly Do Hope there will Be Pvp servers. And I hope that it fallows a few other MMO's and makes them Compleatly Diffrent Stats. No Pvp Fudgeing Up My Pve. Pvp has its place. Heck It dosent even gata be Pvp of Player Vs Player. It could be a race or something I dont honestly care. Just Don't let it screw up my PVE and ill be happy to Support PvP.

Originally posted by deathtripp

Yeah I would seriously give this game a shot if it had some pvp and not so many whiney anti-pvp carebears.

Whiney pro-pvp tools are just as annoying.

Originally posted by deathtripp

Yeah I would seriously give this game a shot if it had some pvp and not so many whiney anti-pvp carebears.

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Thank you, deathtripp, for demonstrating another reason why I hope FFXIV will keep any PvP content to a limited, consensual format as they do in FFXI. Fewer people with attitudes like yours infesting the community and dragging it down.

FFXI's done great with the limited PvP it has in Brenner and Ballista. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

The Final Fantasy games are, by their nature, cooperative games. SE carried on that trend with FFXI, and hopefully they'll continue it with FFXIV.

There are plenty of PvP MMOs out there to play. I enjoy PvP myself and am playing Lineage 2 at the moment.. I love the open PvP environment, the sieges, the clan-wars, the politics and all that goes with it... but that's because Lineage 2 was built with PvP conflict in mind.

When I want PvP, I play a PvP MMO. I don't look for a PvE MMO and then complain that it doesn't have PvP. Likewise, when I want PvE, I play a PvE MMO... I don't go to a PvP MMO and then complain that it doesn't have enough PvE content.
 

It would be a great game without pvp, I enjoyed FFXI without ever trying their pvp system and FFXIV would do just fine without it. The community will just end up closer without the pvp "hardcores" whining about taking the nerf bat to classes they don't play.

I would much prefer fighting NPCs than players.  NPCs have many advatanges over PvP players.  They have better grammar, are less whiny, often better AI, often more mature and most importantly they do not constantly hop around like a child in desperate need of ritalin.

Originally posted by Cochran1

It would be a great game without pvp, I enjoyed FFXI without ever trying their pvp system and FFXIV would do just fine without it. The community will just end up closer without the pvp "hardcores" whining about taking the nerf bat to classes they don't play.

yea the whole nerf bat syndrome is what killed WoW for me.

If I were PVPing with a taru mage and got targeted by a Ranger surprised by a Ninja or any other potentially disastrous encounters with any form of damage I would expect to pop like an egg hitting concrete.

The other side of the coin is also viable, if I am a well geared Mage my top spells will be devastating.

Sometimes classes are Glass cannons to other classes, rock paper scissors. Something Blizzard lost somewhere along the way.

I enjoy PVP but if they have it it better be done right.....QQ better fall on deaf ears, or have completely separate stats for pvp

EDIT ROFL zippy ^^

If it has PvP, they sure as hell better not have us playing on the same servers as Japanese players.

I agree that there should NOT be PvP... I mean I don't really care if there is but I do agree that it has been sucessfull without it and the community stays together. I am convinced that it has a better community at least in part because of it's lack of PvP. LotRO also has a decent community and not so much PvP.

I guess I've never really thought about it but there might in fact be a connection there. And I'd take a great community that isn't fighting with eachother over PvP any day. 

Originally posted by WSIMike

FFXI's done great with the limited PvP it has in Brenner and Ballista. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

Pretty much this. I don't mind arenas but I'd be disapointed if another game I'd consider cool has world PvP. That and I'm not sure how Square would handle it, usually if one is good at designing PvP they're not so great with written content and/or PvE and the same goes for heavy story and PvE driven games.

I hope there's some in arenas and such but not everywhere. I have a feeling after Aion I'll want a big break ;P

Originally posted by WSIMike

Originally posted by deathtripp

Yeah I would seriously give this game a shot if it had some pvp and not so many whiney anti-pvp carebears.

 

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Thank you, deathtripp, for demonstrating another reason why I hope FFXIV will keep any PvP content to a limited, consensual format as they do in FFXI. Fewer people with attitudes like yours infesting the community and dragging it down.

FFXI's done great with the limited PvP it has in Brenner and Ballista. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

The Final Fantasy games are, by their nature, cooperative games. SE carried on that trend with FFXI, and hopefully they'll continue it with FFXIV.

There are plenty of PvP MMOs out there to play. I enjoy PvP myself and am playing Lineage 2 at the moment.. I love the open PvP environment, the sieges, the clan-wars, the politics and all that goes with it... but that's because Lineage 2 was built with PvP conflict in mind.

When I want PvP, I play a PvP MMO. I don't look for a PvE MMO and then complain that it doesn't have PvP. Likewise, when I want PvE, I play a PvE MMO... I don't go to a PvP MMO and then complain that it doesn't have enough PvE content.
 

What do you mean attitudes like mine??? People that like PVP?? I just feel like having no PVP at all is baseless. I want to test my skill against other players if i CHOOSE to. Sorry if you don't like it mate... You know what they say. If you got a problem...well it's your f****** problem.

LOTRO has a pretty decent PvP fan base. The option is there for players who want to PvP even if it lacks content, but there are many players who basically only PvP in LOTRO. That and their great community is... greatly exaggerated as I'm currently playing LOTRO and don't see much of a difference.

That said, communities are no better in PvE focused games. Hardcore PvP MMOs have a much different community from any other kind of MMO, but their subscriptions are so small that they really aren't fair to compare.