Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

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care to explain why arena participation dropped by over 75% after BC?

a very VERY small minority were arena players who actually played because they enjoyed it when wotlk was released. however, out of that small group who still played arenas, a good portion of them only do it for gear and nothing else.

there is nothing wrong with enjoying arenas. i personally like objective based pvp with lots of people for maximum chaos factor (same reason why i like modern warfare 1 over any of the others because the PC used to support 64 player matches). some people like small team deathmatch.

but sugarcoating the buffet of problems arenas introduced is not exactly winning any favors.

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11 milions people playing a game with high-end pvp based on arenas.

We love arenas.

You dont like them? Dont play, but we are a lot of people that enjoy them, so please, enough.

Mark my words, if there is no arena system implemented into this game pvp will die. No one is going to want to run dumb war zones over and over again. Arena is one of the best ways to let people show off their skill as well as add more to the game. Wanting there not to be arena only cheapens the game in terms of content and shortens the game's life.

and the reason why a lot of people quit WoW arena, including me, was due to the stupid *** hero class they added which basically destroyed arena. sorry if you cant get your rank high enough to get certain gear, but that is why bio has operationg for you to click the same 5 button rotation and kill a computer ever week.

the majority of people dont like arenas for various reasons. it would be nice if the minority pro-arena crowd had something they enjoyed in pvp, but ever since arenas destroyed pvp in wow, im skeptical of implementing it when the risks far outweigh the benefits.

I am the kind of people who laughed at all the BG heroes in WoW saying that they would destroy me in RBG's. Since I casually played RBG's and pretty much never lost a game.

Every top arena player have the individual skill to play WZ's, because it is not difficult at all. All there is to it is praciting teamwork, which you can also do in arenas.

dk/pal was just as bad as druid/war from the previous season, people didnt quit in droves over druid/war

Im sorry but thats just complete bs, just because wow did it does NOT mean you have to. A lot of people actually enjoy objective based pvp as anything else is boring (in my opinion just as you think its boring ).

Im sorry but those statistics are completely useless as they say NOTHING about how many play or even enjoy arenas, unless you're going to claim wow has nothing else?

You can show off your skill in Warzones as well. All arena's are is who can kill/avoid being killed better than the other team. No objectives, no defending locations, limited tactics, playing as a team etc. There's more to warzones than just showing how much damage/kills you can get.

Yes, we do need more WZ's, but the game has been out what...a month and a half. Seriously, you're already complaining. I don't think anyone would have a problem with Arena's if it were implemented as a side game with only titles, mounts, etc as rewards (no gear). Pretty much keep Warzones as the standard and offer arena's for the epeen factor.

I mean really...who's gonna want to run dumb arena's over and over again...seriously.

Then go duel..../solved...