Pearl Abyss attempted twice to implement their PVP system as a core component of the game.

The first attempt resulted in so much cheating and exploiting that it was removed from the game.

The second attempt was a stand alone PVP game that couldn't sustain 10 players.

That's all anyone needs to know to discern how valuable PVP is for BDO.  In you listen closely what you will hear over and over and over is..........................

I want to PVE, but someone is in my PVE spot and I am FORCED to PVP.

If PVP was so desired there wouldn't be ONE PVP channel.

Noone was intrested in Shadow Arena as any kind of PVP content, everyone was after insane amount of silver its was giving for nothing, and someone still askin to bring it back with same insane rewards.

You want PVE on that specific spot on that specific channel and you don't want to move, while next door is free, that's only problem of BDO's "pvp for pve".

Pearl Abyss attempted twice to implement their PVP system as a core component of the game.

The first attempt resulted in so much cheating and exploiting that it was removed from the game.

The second attempt was a stand alone PVP game that couldn't sustain 10 players.

That's all anyone needs to know to discern how valuable PVP is for BDO.  In you listen closely what you will hear over and over and over is..........................

I want to PVE, but someone is in my PVE spot and I am FORCED to PVP.

If PVP was so desired there wouldn't be ONE PVP channel.

That doesn't make any sense and is easy to disprove.

If your statement was correct, all you would ever have to do is change channels to the "free spot".   It would be MUCH more effective than spending time trying to harass another person out of your spot.

The TRUTH is you are trying to presume the spot is just magically free on another channel.

That's not how the works because it's poorly constructed and not much effort is put into it.  For example Bloody Mon is OVERCROWDED on every channel during a drop event while NO ONE is at Elvia Naga.

This is because Naga is poorly designed.  The mobs are grouped to an extent that all Tier 4/5 pets are not adequate.  You have to wait on spawns and the trash loot is lower than Monestary.

This broken design makes one spot over crowded and the other vacant.  That's literally the entire game world.  

Aaaah damn, it is slowly dying Again? 

Beware, you're using the usual "pve vs pvp" bias...

... BDO is PvPvE. Even on its "pvp channel". 

BDO is not an Open World PVP game.  Lineage 2 has private servers with 200+ people fighting in mass open world PVP.  BDO is a failed concept that didn't work.  All it has is a few forum warriors trying to argue people trying to exploit mob feeding so they can PVE is somehow PVP.

Do you even know how guilds competing over an area works?  They would kill each other a few times until they realize it's pointless and everyone quits because they are bored.

There are no victory conditions or any way to achieve anything.  It's literally pointless and a waste of everyones time.

THAT IS WHY Lineage has 200+ people fighting and BDO doesn't have 5

It used to be in the pre-awa times. Big fights gvg in the open world. Locking down grindspots with multiple parties...until the crybabies came from WoW or other themepark mmos, lured in by the graphics and combat, just to realize that this game is not a themepark mmos. They cried so loud until it was changed. Now it's something in between which is the worse for both sides.

They have removed :

Savage rift

Shadow Arena(even tried making it into its own game)

Altar of Blood 

Other content that i have forgotten about probably 

2023 and 2024 could possibly pose real problems finally.  One of the reasons for thes stability is not the quality of the game, but rather the lack of competition.  With Diablo 4, Throne and Liberty, and a few other major titles there is a bit of a risk.

If those games just fail BDO is likely to stay where it's at.  It's not dead, but it's not booming like Final Fantasy either.

Pertaining to PVP that's more on you.  BDO PVP didn't get bad or really change......... ever.  Upon release it was terrible and it's been that way ever since.  Every single problem identified in the oringal release is still in game or worse.

ALL attempts to improve anything in PVP has resulted in absolutely no improvement to a small downgrade.

Musa/Mae dash where toned down.................... Zerker mobility?

Zerker infinite grab loop................. Ranged grabs?

Protection revamp............. Grab win?

It is unrealistic to believe that PVP is sustainable content in MMO's.  This extends far beyond BDO.  In all PVP MMO's you will spend 99% of your time on PVE anyway.  If you want a PVP game go play a game designed for that, not an MMO.