Why is it that on these forums in the year 2025 of our good Lord it’s still RP-PVP that is most often hit with the beating end of the stick with this whole talk of going way beyond the scope of what is reasonable? Two hundred good men engaged in a remote, closed off conflict somewhere with bombs going off near settlements seems to trigger an allergic reaction of some people way more than the hundredth riot or plague event in Stormwind.
PvE events in particular often deal with more intense situations, be it in guilds or campaigns where maybe you don’t deal with cosmic level forces, but threats that are pretty dangerous with the stakes established that Very Bad Things will happen to the hubs we know and love unless it is stopped. Wouldn’t the Avengers of Azeroth be called upon to deal with those?
Well no, because it would make for a lame and boring story where nobody gets to do anything and it is the same principle with RP-PVP. Do you really expect people to have a good time with just five guys beating eachother with sticks and stones in some barren wasteland far away from civilisation with absolutely zero logical sense to fight? You need to up the stakes a little and make the characters -care- about something otherwise the RP looks like a pointless PVP battleground with 0 thought or reason behind it.
Anyway I think the topic was exhausted to death in this cool thread, idk.