And this is fucking garbage. Asherons Call Darktide was a cold, shady place. I remember rolling a noob swordsman in Shoushi starter town, visiting the local grotto in order to kill low level mobs for money. Maybe even get a lucky random drop.
I would then take my lvl 11 scrub wearing studded leather drudge underwear out to the nearest outpost to try and find me a similar lvled scrub to fight. Usually I would never find that guy, instead I would find a lvl 87 member of a popular griefing guild who would promptly push my shit in and loot my shitty, shitty corpse to boot.
It sucked. But you know what? There was always someone badder. I would network, communicate, beg , cry do whatever the fuck I had to do in order to gather support. My new lvl 95 buddy would then promptly skull fuck the lvl 80 griefer just to show me whos really the badass in town which lead to the lvl 80 dude calling his lvl 126 guild officer to come wipe the floor with the lvl 90 guy I just met. This went on for hours, sometimes days. It usually ended in some type of truce where both guilds eould come to an agreement which allowed me to have fun in my shitty little grotto until I was strong enough to fuck up the next dick that tested me.
This is how dynamic PvP environments work and there is nothing wrong with it. The problem nowadays is devs are trying to protect players from themselves and it just doesnt fucking work.
Impliment the type of systems that allow for wholesome, meaningful, rewarding PvP and watch it take off. But if you try and baby players and set stupid guidelines it devolves into nonsense and no one is happy. Why the fuck is this so hard now a days? Is it the younger gamers? I dont understand.
