Tell me why Red sucks

[Csihar]

The reason why I don't play on a PVP server is because it's a PVP server. I have never really enjoyed PVP in any capacity. Maybe fast-paced/no loss PVP games like in multiplayer shooters. I don't really know what people get out of it. If it's the enjoyment of defeating someone else then that's something I lack. It's the negation of a negative when someone I fight dies rather than a positive.

Perhaps PVE players generally don't like the added stress and lack of 'peace' and want to fight within a challenging but controlled and predictable setting. They want to defeat the game rather than another person.

I haven't played red but in general I dislike the attitude of a significant amount of PvP'ers. I don't very often get the impression that people are searching for a challenge and attack others because of it. Or attack people in a 'the best defence is a good offence' type of way. Rather it seems they get off simply through the knowledge that they bested someone else.

I played a WoW emulator a little while back. I quit after 2 weeks because it bored me to death but it only had a PvP server and that influenced my decision as well. I absolutely hated trying to gather some quest items but being killed 20 times trying to grab it. It would mostly be people much higher level than I was or groups of people against myself. The odds were in their favour to the point where I could do everything right and I would still die. Eventually I'd just sit down in order to speed up the dying process and try to convey that I had no interest in PvP'ing at that moment. Safe for certain situations I would think that would be enough to deter others but it doesn't. I don't understand the pleasure in it from their side. The thought of them getting enjoyment from killing someone who stood no chance and accomplishing nothing but annoying the other person annoys me.

Now, WoW generally speaking has a much more childish fanbase than EQ but this type of attitude is always present in PvP in some degree.

I guess I can understand the appeal in actually fighting for a camp and it could be quite interesting in a raiding scene but I'd want to turn off PvP for 95% of the game. I'd just want people to leave me the fuck alone. I'm not looking to fight, kindly fuck off.