You Need To Reward Open World PvP - ASAP!

/Signed

I come from Aion, from one of the top PvP legions in the game. This aspect of SWTOR is a let down for sure. I came here planning to PvP. As it is now we are forced into making 4 man pre-mades to do the two objective based instances or get broken up anyway in Hutball while you pull your hair out watching PUG's run the wrong way and not pass.

Couple things I'd like to point out as well:

1) The current rewards from the instanced PvP are junk, so let's not get carried away asking for more of those. The stuff you get is all just stats. Eventually you'll be able just farm high level instances in PvE and get the same junk. To me, PvP rewards should have something to do w/ PvP, like +X% PvP attack or -X%PvP damage on gear. They aren't even bonus stats or set bonuses on the PvP sets as it is right now. It's just the best stats at lvl 20, 40, and 50.

So... You get a full "PvP set" @ 20, then 4 runs in Athis gets you better stuff. FAIL. I want kill counts, titles, kill/death ratios, and class stats for PvP.

2) So far this thread has 25 pages and counting.. and NOT ONE REPLY FROM A DEV. I think it's almost SCARY that no one at BW is literally RUNNING to a computer to address this thread and say "We hear you, loud and clear, and in the future we'll be adding/changing.... this, this and this". I'd even be happy with "We ****ed up, sorry. We're working on a solution".

I'll have to second what some people is saying in this thread. I'm really scared about the PVP aspect of the game, the more lvl I get the more I think this will be another PVE farming game for casuals.

Please improve open pvp, none cares about new warzones, they will get boring too.

Something important to note is that even in Ilum and Outlaws Den, the rewards are literally non existant. Solo kills of equal levels give you 20-30 Valor, a 1 warzone gives you 1000+. Even capturing objectives in Ilum gives you nothing.

I guess they just don't want people to get gear other than by doing Warzones.

I like the open world dailies. There's nothing more clever than implementing a system whereby Imperials sit around yelling at each other to not attack the Republic Commando so he can cap it so they can cap it and earn their daily. I mean it's brilliant. If only we had more PvP like this we could get rid of all conflict and sit around the cantina.

Oh wait...the goal is conflict.

There's nothing flattering to say about it... I've never seen designers so short sighted.

/signed

Yeah, open world PvP really needs to be the focal point of PvP servers, not warzones.

/signed.

While we're at it, remember that Bioware might have a very different opinion as to what is "good open pvp". Taken from the "What's next for the Old Republic" official news post:

Yeah, about that Bioware...

Sign. It frankly makes no sense. How could they make such an oversight?

Wow this is beyond bad....

Illum is just as dead as every other planet ffs.

I agree wholeheartedly. I came from Aion, where world pvp was the bread and butter of the game. World pvp is sporadic, intense, and adrenaline-filled. Unlike instances, I feel that world pvp is more quality pvp, where the encounters are unpredictable. I'm sad to see that Bioware has failed to implement a quality world pvp experience.

I'll hang on for a little bit, and hope that they will soon rectify this problem, otherwise, I feel that instanced pvp gets old. It's the same few maps, over and over, with the same goals. World pvp brings a welcome relief from the same old pvp, it brings variety.

I hope you guys at BW are paying attention to your playerbase. The lack of community support from NCsoft has been what killed Aion for me, and if we see the same disregard for the community here, I can promise your customer base will remember in the future.