Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

As of now you can be a complete mess at your class and in WZ's, and still have access to high end PvP gear/titles.Once Arena comes out those players won't have the same access to high end gear/titles and feel it shouldn't be in the game.
It's the same as the casual PvEers who also don't want damage meters in game.

Playing FOTM comps does not make a good player.

We don't wan't you to take pvp seriously. Pvp used to be fun, when it was a way to pass the time away after raids and before bed. But when pvp became all super serious, it became yet another grind fest that people we forced to take part of if they wanted to do pvp at all.

The pvp system in this game is already bad. Making it into an e-sport will only make it worse. Could you imagine the QQ of people when they want to compete in arenas but cant get geared due to champion bag RNG??? LOLOLOL!

hardcore pvp, killing MMO's since The burning Crusade!

My words exactly, tip of the hat to you sir... WoW tried too hard to balance classes around the arena which lead to epic fail... I do not want arena's in SWTOR... now maybe something along the lines of rated warzones? but even that is a maybe.... if they did implement an arena system and it DIDNT give better PVP gear than the normal gear obtained through WZ's i wouldn't mind.

Because they should focus on World PvP.

Yup, and because i personnaly don't play a MMO to pvp in a 12m² box all day long.

Stop missing the point which is that the OP said the rewards would be the same. Hell I wouldn't care if arena gave no rewards and was just for fun/epeen.

Arena's in tbc was the most fun I have ever had in a mmo, and although I may of had the best it could offer and pretty titles and mounts spread out across several characters, I would still love it, if it gave no extra gear no titles, and sub par valor gain, and was just a little extra optional add in. see nothing wrong with that personally.

its been said 100 times, Arena breeds 14 year old angst, hate an spam. Not to mention it destroys community. granted tor has no community, but it will jsut make it even worse.

Arenas add a small group size pvp element to balance with the larger scale map types. You end up with healers that can keep people alive indefinitely or setups where two people could coordinate and cc/kill someone (a ball carrier for example) with no way to counter it. PVP balanced around 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3 really complicates trying to keep larger match sizes balanced at the same time.

A deathmatch warzone wouldn't be a bad idea, but if half the pvp crowd stopped quing for the objective based maps then pvp would lose a lot of it's depth. You can win huttball with coordination even if you are out geared and outnumbered, but in an arena setting it's a match of who has the best healing debuff, or who has the most cc, or who can stack dps buffs and burst the hardest. You end up with classes that are too strong in one pvp type and almost useless in the other type.

Also, adding a pvp type with a separate que than the current WZ que system would make the que times on lower population servers even longer. We need pvp improvements that increase the pvp population before we add things that separate it into niches.