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Separating PvP from PvE

2007-12-29 08:34:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
Ontherocks wrote me a lengthy proposal, which I am just going to quote here: Here's a thought. What would be wrong with making PvP earned gear only usable in the open world and BGs/Arenas? Or to put it another way, you can't wear it in PvE instances 1. People who are PvPing for gear to fill PvE gaps, wouldn't bother, resulting in 2. LFG for...
 
Tags: pvp, pvp gear, gear, positive sum pvp, enjoy, enjoy pvp, pvp item, pve, pvp game
 
 
 
 
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Making raiding more like PvP

2007-12-30 08:01:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
In World of Warcraft there are people who like PvP very much, and rarely participate in the PvE endgame. And there are people who like PvE much more, and rarely do PvP (me, for example). And between these two small groups there is a much larger group of players who like both, and whose decision to do one or the other is often influenced by...
 
Tags: pvp, people prefer pvp, pvp gear, pvp battleground, arena epics, epics, raid, successful raid, raid dungeons
 
 
 
 
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Is WoW PvP the best possible PvP for a MMORPG?

2008-03-06 15:20:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
I'm on holiday in one of these places where the geographical location doesn't really matter, as long as there is endless sun, blue sky, a beach, a pool, and an all-you-can eat buffet. But I'm interrupting this holiday for an hour to update this blog. Before I left, I spent an afternoon in World of Warcraft doing mostly PvP. Somebody was forming...
 
Tags: pvp, impact, impact pvp, popular pvp, warcraft, warcraft pvp manages, pvp fan, mmorpg pvp, carebear pvp
 
 
 
 
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Keens AoC PvP Weekend Impressions

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2008-04-19 19:00:24 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
As of 12:00pm PST the NDA for the Age of Conan Gamespot PvP weekend is official lowered. As I hinted at yesterday I was accepted to participate in this event and have gone to great lengths gathering information that will helpful to both myself and you my faithful readers. I think the best place to begin here is with a quick review. I want to...
 
Tags: pvp, pvp experience, pvp weekend offers, conans pvp gameplay, pvp gameplay, pvp specd warrior, ranger pvp, pvp feels strenuous, pseudo-twich pvp
 
 
 
 
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Its ok to hate bad PvP, but have you played good PvP?

2008-08-11 19:18:42 by syncaine in Hardcore Casual
 
What if Warhammer PvP is something PvE players do end upliking? I mean, if EQ PvP is your only example of PvP, I dont blame you for hating PvP. Same goes for WoW PvP. Two PvE games that tried to add PvP as an extra, and in turn made a lot of people really hate PvP What if a lot of those PvE only players see what decent PvP is like in WAR, and...
 
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Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog: Keens AoC PvP Weekend Impressions

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2008-04-19 15:35:56 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
As of 12:00pm PST the NDA for the Age of Conan Gamespot PvP weekend is official lowered. As I hinted at yesterday I was accepted to participate in this event and have gone to great lengths gathering information that will helpful to both myself and you my faithful readers. I think the best place to begin here is with a quick review. I want to...
 
Tags: pvp, pvp experience, pvp weekend offers, conans pvp gameplay, pvp gameplay, pvp specd warrior, pvp feels strenuous, pseudo-twich pvp, clunky pvp
 
 
 
 
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Why PvP rulez in WoW

2008-02-21 08:01:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
I have an immense respect for the officers and raid leaders of my guild, because they have such a hard job whenever they try to put a raid together. You can't just take the first 10 people showing up or do a lottery; you need so and so many tanks, so and so many healers, this or that crowd control, this or that special class for some special...
 
Tags: pvp, epics, welfare epics, pvp epics, karazhan, karazhan clears, karazhan runs, battleground pvp, karazhan loot
 
 
 
 
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The Daily Grind: should PvP rewards give PvE benefits?

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2008-08-18 08:00:00 by Adrian Bott in Massively
Filed under: The Daily Grind Not everyone likes PvP. We're fine with that. De gustibus non est disputandum, as the Romans used to say: don't argue over tastes. But what happens when a game's designers need to assess motives for PvPing, and allocate it some sort of reward? Should they make PvP rewards useful for PvP and nothing else, ensuring...
 
Tags: pvp, encourage pvp, pvp gear, pve, pvp context, likes pvp, pvp rewards, pvp minigames, enter pvp zones
 
 
 
 
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Seein' Red - Now THAT'S PvP

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2008-08-26 18:52:32 by Editor in VirginWorlds Blog
Realm vs Realm PvP combat. If you've killed enough rats today, you can participate in an exciting PvP game that I like to call "Chase the guy with the red name". It doesn't matter what the objectives are, or who that guy is. If he has a red name, chase him down and hit him in the back until he drops dead. And don't worry, there are no...
 
Tags: pvp, eve online pvp, eve, pvp server type, alterac valley pvp, pvp game, online, ultima online, eve online
 
 
 
 
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Do you play on a PvP server?

2008-03-27 13:16:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
As everyone knows I'm a carebear it comes to no surprise that I'm playing on a "normal" server, not on a PvP server. I was chatting with a friend today, exchanging our experiences of patch 2.4, and his take was radically different from mine, because he is playing on a PvP server: He couldn't do a single daily quest for the Sunwell Offensive,...
 
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