ARENAS/Death match....NOW

Who knows after World PvP that could be looked at for variety, World PvP should be the priority, rated PvP is at least something for those that like arena and small organised teams, where as those that like the big scale team stuff have nothing with the failure that is Ilum and that is why my friends left TOR as it happens.

Myself, I ain't interested in who is the best individual or small team, that would play a part in my thinking of course, I like big scale stuff, having multiple warbands/ops working together for hours.

Yeah the engine part is certainly something that worries me in big scale PvP

In the end it prob wouldn't hurt to have all forms of PvP, as long as the best stat gear isn't saved for arena, although they still need something, titles, appearance etc, but I still think World PvP should be the priority.

Please add arenas/deathmatch pvp, some of us like deathmatch pvp and most good games offer multiple variations of pvp.

To the people saying no for no reason, you don't have to participate. I don't want any extra gear than what the ranked warzones would provide. You may like playing sabotage in cod, others like deathmatch.

To the people saying to go play in Outlaws Den, all it takes is one stealth class griefer to completely ruin tournaments. The one successful 3v3 tournament we had was probably the most fun I've had in this game.

p.s. This is an mmo, gladiators from WoW are going to be the best pvpers in this game. Sorry if you struggled for challenger titles each season

Actually most battlegrounds in WoW took way more co-ordination and were more complex than anything swtor currently offers sans huttball. And huttball is really just a modified capture the flag so no leaps and bounds there.

But yea, you either need competitive pvp or engaging open world pvp to keep pvpers around (and god knows engaging open world pvp is a LONG ways off). Rated battlegrounds are a start, arena's will help. I stopped playing around a month ago because I can only do the same 3 warzones so many times with no incentive. Sub ends in June if rated warzones don't cut it.

This is like an argument over whether Call of Duty or Battlefield has better multiplayer.

I just think, with the engine that has performance issues with player models and large area rendering, small scale pvp wouldn't be game breaking, but an improvement for some. For those with "low end" machines could pvp, and not suffer from complete crap frames. With smaller maps, plus limiting the number of players/spell effects I don't see how it could be a bad thing.

Its taking so long because they arent going to add it and have no intentions on adding that POS.

There's a reason pretty much every mmo on the market doesnt have arenas. Because arena PVP is HORRIBLE lol. And before you tell me "How could it be horrible? wow has 500 million subscribers?" All I can say is...Justin Bieber has sold 500 million records...Does that mean he's good?

WOW is the Michael Jackson of mmo's. It sucks even though it sells millions. It mostly attracts little boys. And it's dead.

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I just think, with the engine that has performance issues with player models and large area rendering, small scale pvp wouldn't be game breaking, but an improvement for some. For those with "low end" machines could pvp, and not suffer from complete crap frames. With smaller maps, plus limiting the number of players/spell effects I don't see how it could be a bad thing.

LOL I know it's coming....

My point is why it's taking so long.......

And when It does come I'm sorry you have to walk around with a bad rating I really am....

The reason was stated many times, you just refuse to accept it. Arena is ALREADY available. Take your 3 buddies, and challenge any other 4 on tatooine. Search google, you will see plenty of videos of these swtor tournaments. You might even stumble on the 50+ pages threads that had already been up on the pvp forum with QQing galore about what classes needs to be nerfed, and how Sorc are so squishy and need a major buff, ALL as a result of some stupid arena tournament (3v3 AND 4v4) that showed ZERO skill level.