Why are so many people against Arena in Swtor?

Too much would have to change to make arena any fun in this game. If they had arenas or rated warzones's right now, it would be horrible.

They didn't even try to cheat proof the game.

The only way to make arenas viable at the moment would be to give everyone the teleport hack. Or the multi-hack

Rated PvP is coming, deal with it.

For starters, I previously stated I do not care about the gear being in line or less from Arena.
now as for everyone complaining about the gear difference being the issue and requirement to do well, and at the same time class composition, if I scour my computer for some screenshot's (I haven't touched wow in years) of me above 2k rating in starter sets, as an unconventional comp, would that put that argument to rest.
I'm sorry it might not be nice to hear, but I had a large amount of alts that I arena'ed with of multiple classes, (I'll leave it at more than 10).
Some I focused on more, going for the Gladiator ratings and the best tier of weapons
Others I spent time only around Tier1 wep - shoulders, purely because of the lack of drive.
The simple fact is that yes certain comps were better, or more effective, but the gates were never a loss the second they opened when it came down to the 3vs3 bracket (2vs2 granted you could instant lose more often) the starter set was all that was required gear wise to do well, You could get the first rated weapons in blues, a struggle but possible.

as for all the other arguments, I'm not asking for it to give me more gear, I'm not asking for it to give titles, or a ranked system even, nice but not my main want, what I like the most is the ability to spend time with friends in a way we have fun, without being forced to play with 4 other people who make our life harder on purpose it seems. and don't even get me started on world pvp.

Oh and one final thing, rated bg's were the reason I left wow, getting to the top of that, "Fotm comps" were even worse, mark my words on that, all of you approving ranked Wz's are going to eat your words when it happens.

Sometimes simplicity is best.

You sound like you have a lot of time to play if you want leagues and schedules.

Many of us don't have that type of time and if they add rated WZs I hope its the same gear as regular WZs because there is no way I will find a team of 8 who I can get on at the same time given I log close to 6 hours a week.

Also the objective based PvP would be better if death was permanent. Kind of lame to be able to run like a lemming over and over and not pay a price but to wait for a few seconds

Too much effort when you don't live in game. Sorry I have a job and family. I'd take scrimmishes where I can Q anywhere tho

need to paste this over and over as it covers the only arguments people keep using. They are still sore they couldn't even get a 1800 (starter) pvp weapon lol

The game isn't balanced for it and i dont want to see a fresh wave of nerf posts every day about whatever fotm class is op, its bad enough already with a vocal minority of people not even playing endgame demanding changes to classes they haven't interacted with at the same level with the same gear level.

So wrong man... So many nice guys who only palyed Arena and were high rated. The few elitist circle jerkers were a minority with their small group who thaught they were cool- the problem is they are the vocal ones

My biggest complaint is newbie leaders that don't mark enemy healers to focus fire.

Unfortunately that is over 95% of leaders.

They need to make it so everyone can mark enemy