Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

Hahaha. It's terrible if they have a minimum weekly requirement, it's terrible if they don't have a minimum weekly requirement.

You're easy to please. Enjoy the next MMO you adore and then quit within 3 months, I'm sure it will be a smash hit as well.

No, it's terrible that they most likely dropped the 10 games a week requirement because people hated it enough they wouldn't even participate that much. i'd heard the number of arena teams crashed back in wrath i think, but i had no idea it was so bad they removed the 10 game requirement completely.

tell me, will you still be crying 3 years from now when there's still no arena in swtor? does it make u mad or sad, or both? rofl

They changed it from retard-proof 10 participation arenas to requiring wins to get your points, and they made it scale upward with rating. So you were required to win more games to reach your improved point cap.

The only problem with WoW Arena is the increased gear it gives you. It should be a fun or cosmetic change only.

Anyone who is against rated arenas that give no power advantage are bad, bitter, or don't PvP in the first place. I can comfortably state that as fact. The "it'll break world pvp!" argument was null the second they announced warzones.

Last you checked was 2009, or the first 2 weeks of Cataclysm, then.

If you want us to take PVP seriously we will need ARENAS.
I dont care about WoW having Arenas or any other game, we as PVPers need them.
One thing is true, they need to fix the current PVP adn the ability delay first.

Sorry I am confused, why would players who do not like the arena system claim they do not want it when it is a 100% voluntary action? There is a smaller minority of people who love arena who love the fact that your fighting on a ladder system, that there is zero chance of anyone interrupting your fight and it all comes down to you and your partners skill. Yes of course some balancing would take place on classes all arena would do is put a spot like on the too powerful classes so Bioware may allow balance. World of Warcraft had massive diversity in there classes that caused huge balance issues constantly, Swtor has very very similar mechanics entwined into each class that would save tones of nerf/buff patchs.

Things Swtor could do better to Arena type pvp

-> Same rewards for Arena pvp as all other type battlegrounds? (same gain rate, so people who only like arena dont have to play huttball against/with bots and afks.)

->I always felt the competitive edge of different gear was what made Arena fun the guy with the legendary hit hard that how it was supposed to work. Swtor could simply auto buff stats to the same level (just like low lvls in bgs) so that regardless of your gear it actually did come down to skill.

TLDR : Arenas were fun in wow, a lot of people used them. Why are there masses of people so against in a 100% voluntary action in a game?

UM...your numbers say nothing about arenas and PvP...it's just subscription numbers. I can use those same numbers and say

11 Million people playing a game with high-end PvE based on raids!

11 million people playing a game with high-end PvP based on FOTM builds/classes!

11 million people playing a game with high-end epeen facter based on no social life

11 million people playing a game with high-end RP based on...well...um....yeah

I think I made my point....

11million compared to 1.7mill.... Nuff said there.