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Originally Posted by rangoth  That being said, I am ok with, and in fact even FOR, open world meaningful PvP. Objectives, castles, dungeons, whatever....but there should not be a gear thing involved. Make the reward something else. |
Control of a zone does not mean you are going to be left with nothing to do. I take it you did not play a server like Tallon Zek in EQ. If you had you would know that while you might not have "easy" access to Lower Guk because the dark elves controlled it you did have access to Mistmore or Unrest because your side controlled the zone. In Kunark the darkies controlled Sebilis for the most part while the light side of thing (the other 3 factions combined in an alliance) controlled Karnor's castle. That meant if a group of lights wanted to fight in Sebilis they had to fight their way in and get the control of the zone from the darkies, and often exactly that happend. This PVP meant WAY more in my mind and got alot more of my interest then some meaningless castle siege that gives the winning side +5% to experience gains for the next 6 hours or allows the looting of some goofy shards that can buy PVP gear.
The reality is I played as a gnome, which were factioned up as the shorties, the halflings, the gnomes, and the dwarves. We were underrepresented as a faction but the dark elves, trolls and ogres were by far the largest population so very quickly the light races allied against the dark races and thus balance was created, not through the actions of the game designers, but through the actions and politics of the community that played on that server, and that is one heck of alot cooler then anything I have seen happen in WOW which allows nothing of the sort.
The reward is not "gear" as you mention, it was control of the zones and their use, and while your side will undoubtably control some zones you wont control all, that said nothing stops you from getting a group together of good players and fighting your way in and controlling that zone that is normally not controlled by your faction. It happened many times on Tallon Zek and when I was a part of groups that did that it meant 1000 times more then any meaningless PVP crap in WOW that I could give a rats ass about because of it's pointlessness.
