If a company design a game that way they have to outline the afk modus, cant protect when im away.

I would also vote for a PvE server, im playing since server start 2016 and before that in beta and never i did pvp.

There are enough you just want to enjoy the lifeskill system and not have the rest when its that badly implemented compared to a superb lifeskill system.

After experiencing PvE servers on Seasonal, I can say they are worse than Arsha in every way.

Well, seeing as they have the tech to phase you; I was fighting a rift boss and a couple of players showed up. They kept trying to attack it but would 'phase out' when getting near it.

So. Do what Blizzard did for Retail. Implement a 'War Mode'. You have to talk to an NPC in a city (ie where the Market Board NPCs is) to flag.

Unflagged players can't participate in Node Wars; they can't even see what's going on.

Flagged players operate under the current PVP ruleset; Karma and the like.

Flagged players cannot see Unflagged players; they're phased into a different 'layer'.
((I believe Blizzard shifts War Mode players into a dedicated layer, with it's own copy of mobs, nodes, npcs.))

Give flagged players a permanent buff (while flagged, obv) to drop rates (silver and items), increased XP for [Life, Combat, Skill], and maybe some kind of token for when they defeat an opponent in "honorable combat" (no Karma loss).

So far my PVP experience has been my lvl 2 alt getting ...I think run over during a Node War. xD

((Which I found funny since at that level you aren't even allowed to PVP, afaik. But, apparently, it's allowed to prevent spying with lowbies; makes sense, still funny.))

ROTFL. What did you expect when all the players suddenly play only 5 instead of 36 channels?

And this is the best proof that players want pve only channels.

I am not opposed to the idea.  I've no intention of engaging in pvp with anyone and I don't fight back if I am attacked, I just try to run away.  Though I've not been a victim of pvp all that often so it hasn't been all that big an issue for me so far.  Though I've not yet reached level 60 so I can't speak for the endgame experience given that I've only been playing regularly since mid December.  I reached 50 a few weeks ago and have been killed 5 times if I recall correctly. 

The first time was a misunderstanding, someone tried to talk to me through chat and I did not respond because I did not yet know how to talk in chat.  They thought I was being rude and killed me.  I later explained the situation to them and they apologized and we settled the misunderstanding amicably. 

The second time I was killed while afk travelling from one location to another.  I contacted who my journal said killed me and asked why they killed me and they insisted that they were not the one who killed me.  I don't if the journal was wrong or the other person was lying.  Does the journal have a history of misidentifying killers? I wouldn't know. 

The next three times were when I was tending to my wheat fields a red player named Inmate1776 from the PIRATES guild came out of nowhere and killed me three times in rapid succession while I just kept trying to tend to my wheat.  After the third time Inmate1776 just left.  I don't know why Inmate1776 killed me, I tried talking to them asking them to please stop killing me and that I was just trying to take care of my wheat but they wouldn't respond.  I don't why Inmate1776 stopped after the third time either, maybe I just made for a boring target given that I did not even try to fight back?  I don't know. 

That last time was 19 days ago and I haven't been killed since so it hasn't been that big a problem for me.  So I don't know that this is really all that big a problem.  But then on the other hand like I said I haven't reached endgame so maybe this is a bigger problem then. 

So in summation I'm not opposed to the idea, but I don't yet feel an urgent desire for it either.  Right now I could go either way.  Maybe in the future my view will change, I don't know. 

Sure, if we don't consider all the bribery and the fact that seasons are getting empty as players are getting all the rewards or finished their new alt. 

from ALL the preview poll on the old forum so the BDO discord library one, ALL point toward the same direction => 50/50. => a more or less half of the playerbase is interested by pve channel.

Forum / discord still is a good representative sample poll as so far forum or discord doesnt cater a particular kind of players ( pve / pvp / life skill or whatever ) and all thoses person play / know BDO. its, in that situation, everything needed.

the only thing we are going to gain with a "in game poll" ( and considering they would care about 1 vote per person & avoid all vpn / multiple account etc ) is precision regarding the % in favor or against we already know since a while now.

While you sure can criticize the sample size beeing low creating a more important margin error, the trend already is pretty clear

And in the end, players beeing against pve channel mean it's players who is going to stick with the "with forced pvp channel" = pve channel would in the end not even impact their BDO life ( unless its that unbearable for somes to know a part of the playerbase play without forced pvp )

Since copying didn't work nor did the ablity to edit work. I had 3 paragrahs written but oh well. I only have 36 hours into this game and the reason being. Is the lack of choice of either PvP or PvE. And by this I mean all i'm asking for is choice. This game is really beautiful the characters the combat are also really beautiful and handesome and amazing to play and see mobs just vanish. It reminds me of my love for Koei Tecmo's Warrior series where 1 character can just destroy armies with a button or two. I don't hate PvP I hate Forced PvP. 

I que up for PvP in other MMO's such as WoW and FF14 I never do OWPVP in either espicially FF14 since it doesn't have such a system and barely a PvP scene at all. I'd love to invest more time and even money at some point if changes are made. As it is now I have no real reason to play the game besides "Oh a new character came out let me try them out for a day or two". I have spent 0$ in this game despite wishing to.

I see costumes and pets and all this other lovely stuff that I wish I could justify buying but I cannot. Where my choice of not wanting to get mopped the floor with by a player with best in slot items whos been playing this game non stop for the past 4 years. That doesn't sound like fun to me nor a reason to spend money into said game. Again all i'm asking for is choice and sure I could go play other MMO's like the two mentioned above or heck even PSO2. But I don't want to I want to play this game. I want to purchase stuff for this game. 

Sure you could say "Well if  you want to play this game you have to accept the OWPVP part of it" except I don't and thus the only 36 hours of playtime. When has more player choice been a bad thing? When has that ever been the problem? If anything the Cries are usually of "To little player agency" or "To little player choice". If PvP really matters that much to some then let them have a strictly PvP server, And for those of us who wish for a strictly PvE type setting let us have it. Choice isn't a bad thing and we shouldn't shame one another for it.

-Griffith, Someone who eagerly wishes to invest time and some point money into this lovely looking game called BDO.

Player choice is a bad thing, when most of the content for established players and Whales. Can dicide to not be content for them anymore and play the game on PvE servers. If you want proof of that look no further than the games itemization and gear upgrade system. All has been laid bare for all the see for years now. They only mean to double if not Triple down on that. ~Look at Blackstar and Dead God gear for example~ 

I hate to say this, but if you don't want to be content for those types of players. Then you have a few options.

- Don't go past lvl 49.

- Don't join a guild and rotate characters with each Season on the seasonal servers.

- Play Olvia servers for 30 days then stop playing the game for 31 days. Rinse and repeat.

- Play another game that don't force you be content for established players and Whales.

Sorry but that real raw deal on the matter. We can't expect the devs to give up on their Whale food. It's practically the whole of their game's business model. The sooner you come to terms with such. The better off you will be.