Olon97,Jun 4 2005, 01:51 AM Wrote:That's a legitimate reason for leaving PvP for a normal server. Whether or not you get killed, corpse camped, spend time doing the killing (in defense), or being just forced to detour, other players on a PvP server will influence your play experience without your permission.
I think Olon's nailed it
PvP servers are about other people interfering with your game experience. If you don't want that then use the other server types.
I think it's best to be at least mildly predatory to get fun out of the pvp server type. If one is not sure what type to choose I think it's best to ask yourself "if I see an opposition player do I want the ability to attack?" If your answer to that is no then all pvp adds over pve is moments of victimisation
I still find it astonishing that given a choice of pvp, pve, or rp people choose pvp then complain bitterly when pvp-ed. I suppose it's easier for me coming from a background of playing games like D2X which taught me to view random strangers with the ability to kill my toon with great suspicion. Still it does show a certain naievety
I think the question is still open as to whether some pvp servers are unplayable for medium level characters due to gank squads. Every post I've seen on the topic has come from someone who is not temperamentally suited to the pvp servers. I saw a post yesterday on the EU official forums where a player logged off furious after being killed once by some guy, going to a different area then getting killed once by someone else. Neither corpse camped. He logged off in disgust and wrote an impassioned post on the forums. That player really is too delicate to play on the server type he has chosen
I certainly believe that it could be possible that the mid-game has become unplayable on certain pvp servers but where people are describing in detail what happened what they describe comes across as being gameplay that the majority of pvp players simply shrug off. If someone can describe "I went to these 5 obscure areas and they were all camped by death-squads who killed me and cc-ed me. I spent 4 hours and killed 2 mobs and died 40 times" then I'd be much more prepared to concede the case