Post by Ludullu on 2022-04-21 18:18:10
The biggest thing about owpvp for me is the player interactions and relationships that build from that interaction.
I've made years-long friendships, after pvping the same people for a month. I've made server-spanning rivalries that were built on mutual respect that came from daily pvp battles. I've created guilds purely from recruiting people through pvp fights, and those guilds could usually stand up against higher numbers of players because everyone in my guild became friends with each other and had much better coordination because of that.
And I've been on the receiving end of that attitude, where I'd fight against 3-4 people from one guild even though I knew I'd lose, but, exactly because I fought back, I got invited to their guild and was immediately respected for my efforts.
I've spent hours talking with enemy guildies sitting in town, because despite the war between our guilds we respected each other and treated each other as equals. Of course there'd be some assholes who would always spam some random shit in chat and flame their enemies, but more often than not they'd get kicked from their guild because they were to toxic towards everyone. The community itself was built on "be the best you can be and respect your enemy for doing the same".
All of this was built on a near-requirement to pvp in Lineage 2. You wanna make you character stronger? You gotta pvp the people doing the same thing. You wanna farm some important item? Pvp the dude who's already farming it to "earn" your right to replace him. And then defend that place from others who wanna earn that right too. You die against the same dude a few times? Talk to other people in the same location and propose killing him together and then splitting the better farm among yourselves. You're the dude who got killed by several people? Do the same thing they did or find a guild that would help you do that.
I really hope Ashes manages to capture the same community interactions and philosophy as L2 did. I sure as hell will give my best to promote them.
I've made years-long friendships, after pvping the same people for a month. I've made server-spanning rivalries that were built on mutual respect that came from daily pvp battles. I've created guilds purely from recruiting people through pvp fights, and those guilds could usually stand up against higher numbers of players because everyone in my guild became friends with each other and had much better coordination because of that.
And I've been on the receiving end of that attitude, where I'd fight against 3-4 people from one guild even though I knew I'd lose, but, exactly because I fought back, I got invited to their guild and was immediately respected for my efforts.
I've spent hours talking with enemy guildies sitting in town, because despite the war between our guilds we respected each other and treated each other as equals. Of course there'd be some assholes who would always spam some random shit in chat and flame their enemies, but more often than not they'd get kicked from their guild because they were to toxic towards everyone. The community itself was built on "be the best you can be and respect your enemy for doing the same".
All of this was built on a near-requirement to pvp in Lineage 2. You wanna make you character stronger? You gotta pvp the people doing the same thing. You wanna farm some important item? Pvp the dude who's already farming it to "earn" your right to replace him. And then defend that place from others who wanna earn that right too. You die against the same dude a few times? Talk to other people in the same location and propose killing him together and then splitting the better farm among yourselves. You're the dude who got killed by several people? Do the same thing they did or find a guild that would help you do that.
I really hope Ashes manages to capture the same community interactions and philosophy as L2 did. I sure as hell will give my best to promote them.