I'll write my thoughts on this change but keep in mind that I am not someone who regularly participates in open world PvP.

I took some time to think about this change and how the developper presented it. When they announced this change in Korea the post was written so carefully and with attention to detail that it was very clear they made an educated decision with the choice to remove unilateral guild wars. It would not surprise me if a negative reaction was not only anticipated but also considered when they planned this change. I feel much of the emotion and value of the original Korean announcement was lost in translation.

As the game has evolved there has been growing pains with the karma system and open world PvP in general which exasperates the situation. Furthermore there has also been a steady decline in open world PvP incentives. The addition of Marni's realm, the reduction of server change cooldowns and the addition of guild home servers already has reduced the amount of open world PvP drastically. The server change cooldown is set to be reduced even further and even more buffs to Marni's Realm are coming which will undoubtedly have a negative impact to open world PvP. The aforementioned changes may already be enough to eliminate most situations where a a dispute may lead to a unilateral guild war declaration.

Personally I think that there is room for open world PvP content in the game and while I am not entirely sure that the removal of unilateral war declarations is a step in the right direction or even the right decision. I still want to keep an open mind on the subject. Many players find enjoyment going around and impunitively killing others. There are some who find neccesity in unilateral guild wars, especially when it comes to grind spot disputes. There is however undeniably many downsides to allowing unilateral PvP without consequences but please remember BDO has always been advertised as a PvP game.

This change really makes it difficult to defend yourself against someone trying to grief you by grinding over you or by trying to feed you to monsters. For me personally the planned changes are not a solution to the problem. These changes will split the community and aleniate a lot of dedicated players who spent a long time practicing their PvP skills in a game that they love.

As you can see, PvP clearly is an important part of this game regardless of if you are a PvE player such as myself or if you are someone who simply logs in to go see who you can start a fight with that day. If the devs are to uphold the proposed changes I hope they will at least consider adding new opportunities and incentives to particpate in open world PvP since I am sure that with all the changes there will no longer be very many situations where it will even be possible to find open world PvP engagements. It will also make it incredibly hard to justify even participating in open world PvP which was already not a profiteable endeavor to begin with.

This proves they don't listen to anything imagine prioritizing this scuffed new system over centralizing servers....

as a returning player i am pushing gear right now. I'm at 706 gs and working towards getting more gear to do open world pvp again. I miss the good old days at Sausans or Pirate Island where cool GvGs always happened. Without the one sided declarations that won't happen anymore. Guild wars often arise when someone griefs and you declare. Then more and more people come. A griefer will never accept the war. Now there is no reason to push Gear anymore. Getting even more gear to then be able to grind even more? Why is PA killing the PVP scene?

Did they ever play their own game???

how many are 1 sided? more than you think, and then they call their alliance guilds in as well... these changes are going to happen, like or not, have you not heard of the arsha server? HELLO?

The rule is necessary because there are between 100 to 120 daily instances of griefers at grinding spots, causing disturbances for peaceful grinders aiming to enhance their gear for participation in node wars (or not). 

* two players grinding on the same rotation is common in all mmos

* two or more players grinding on the same rotation is common in all mmos.

* just go to Marni realm

* Just go to ARSHA and grind there

You have Arsha and Arsha is there for you. Instead of going to Arsha, 100+ players used to abuse the "DFS" consensual dueling rule invented by high gs players to grief new players/returning players. If you dont accept the Consensual Dueling rule which was never a thing in other games and you return to the grind spot after PK kills you, pk usually starts griefing you in chat calling you karmabomber for defending your spot. That was a grief and griefing must be stopped and PA is doing what they can to protect the player base from those 100 griefers.

Sure, one pvp server for how many player's ?

And what if we're not able to defeat, what we'll do ? Switching server.. oh wait..

Maybe they need to add PvE server for player's who want to grief

They are already adding more hours in marni's private realm

as a returning player who came back with 650 gs and everyone had about 720gs+, it was impossible to win a duel. I would have enjoyed more Marni hours but it makes no sense to take out PVP now because so many new players have started. More hours in Marni is enough.

Don't be like the other MMORPGs that catered too much to the "care bears" which ended up killing their game.. *cough* *new world* *cough* *Lost Ark* 

Remember that a good balance of order and chaos must be maintained.