I think the problems are server-specific. After the honor system was released I could not play anywhere for about three weeks (level 30-40 sucks). Now, I must admit I don't feel much for the alliance. However, I have over the past few sessions with my druid found the PvP to be appealing again.
It pretty much comes down to this: Your level of tolerance and the sort of players on your server pretty strongly affect your experience on a PvP server. I think the generation of 30s and 40s who were on the server while Honor went in were a sort of cruel cunning type, while the current group is more amenable to not hosing you. I definitely feel that people on a PvP server are more competitive. The rivalries run deeper. You have to work harder not to die.
I don't think we'll ever convince enough Lurkers that it's not worse being on a PvP server, to really make it not worse (having groups all the time and whatnot). Yes, a million factors will affect your experience: time of day, level, area, character gender... And I resent my older brother's characterization of non PvP players as "cowards" (despite the fact that he's spent about 10x as much time in instances). I think, no I KNOW that the game is much more fun when everybody gets together, which we've already done. I don't anticipate that people are going to give up 3+ characters on Stormrage just for such a "risky" proposition. I don't think that Lurkers on Tich are going to get much farther, but the Basin sounds like a good deal (I'm not registered over there but it can't be that hard...).
Okay, I don't know if this post had any point since pretty much everything has already been said.
It pretty much comes down to this: Your level of tolerance and the sort of players on your server pretty strongly affect your experience on a PvP server. I think the generation of 30s and 40s who were on the server while Honor went in were a sort of cruel cunning type, while the current group is more amenable to not hosing you. I definitely feel that people on a PvP server are more competitive. The rivalries run deeper. You have to work harder not to die.
I don't think we'll ever convince enough Lurkers that it's not worse being on a PvP server, to really make it not worse (having groups all the time and whatnot). Yes, a million factors will affect your experience: time of day, level, area, character gender... And I resent my older brother's characterization of non PvP players as "cowards" (despite the fact that he's spent about 10x as much time in instances). I think, no I KNOW that the game is much more fun when everybody gets together, which we've already done. I don't anticipate that people are going to give up 3+ characters on Stormrage just for such a "risky" proposition. I don't think that Lurkers on Tich are going to get much farther, but the Basin sounds like a good deal (I'm not registered over there but it can't be that hard...).
Okay, I don't know if this post had any point since pretty much everything has already been said.