Draxonfly wrote:
You don't 'need' PvP for players to 'automatically create their own content', you can do that more so in a PvE environment, PvP can hinder that.
PvP can also enable that. It depends entirely on the context.
Eve Online has PvP everywhere as well, and that game is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Certainly, there is a market for a games where the chance of PvP activities - anywhere in the game - is omnipresent.
There's a deluge of PvE-only MMO games on the market, and a new one seems to pop up every month or so. Games that have meaningful PvP - where death has consequences - are the rare ones that are bringing something interesting to the table.
I used to be on the other side of things: As a long-time Eve Online player, I started my career as most do as a miner, producer, and mission runner. No real interest in PvP. "Those mean people," I would say, "they just want to pick on me!"
Well, a series of events forced me into either having to fight or stay docked in station. It was particularly difficult as this happened when I was a new player, and relatively inexperienced. I decided that I would at least give it a try.
This is where Eve's real fun came to light, and I hope that Pathfinder is similar: I was a new player, but I could still engage in meaningful combat against players that were far more experienced, better equipped, and more highly skilled than I.
Sure, at first I blew up a lot, but in the end it was fun, I learned, I got better, and as they say, "It's just space pixels." After that, I explored other careers in Eve. I was a pirate for a while, spent some time helping out alliances, and ended up joining one of the premiere mercenary organizations in the game.
Some people are simply adamant against PvP for a variety of reasons, but quite honestly, I find that a vast majority of those people - if they can be convinced to just give it a try - can have a lot of fun. After all, it IS just "space pixels" (in this game, "fantasy pixels"), and there's nothing to lose by giving it a go.
It might be more fun than you realize.
