BIG edit at the bottom, please check it out.
Tbh, when people originally started asking for an RPPVP ruleset in Forever I didn’t really care that much, but having played a lot of beta, and talked to people, and the more I’ve thought about the PvP server and launch, I do feel like at this point adding an RPPVP ruleset for launch would be a great idea.
The concept of realmless is amazing, and so far the implementation in beta has been pretty good, but Forever is shaping up to be a massive launch with a wide variety of gamers with an even wider variety of preferences. I feel like in Classic versions of the game one of the largest demographics of players is the PvP player. PvP servers, especially early on, always popoff the charts in popularity, but inside of that demographic there are two radically different types of PvP player.
There is the standard pure PvP fanatic that will always roll on PvP servers and cares about little else in their server ecosystem, and there are the PvP lovers that also like to immerse themselves in that dangerous world, to be more in character, to have normal sounding names instead of “Shamslammer Sixseven”, there are people that like that playstyle of PvP, the dangerous world and the large conflicts, but they also enjoy elements of RP alongside it. RP servers do not fit their needs, neither do pure PvP servers, and definitely not Normal servers.
So an RPPVP ruleset is where they want to make their home for Forever.
There is also a mechanical, functional point to this. With PvP seemingly the most popular ruleset, as well as the vast majority of streaming communities going for the PvP ruleset, people with a different style of PvP interest could instead settle on the RPPVP Ruleset.
Which will also be a boon, especially for launch, for everyone. There are always going to be technical limitations, and currently the PvP server looks like it may be a very congested ruleset, which countless people and layers all trying to be crammed into one server. Giving the RPPVP communities their own ruleset would reduce some of the traffic flooding the PvP server and make things a bit more manageable while making sure that Forever, on launch, includes a ruleset playstyle that fits everyone’s wishes perfectly. Normal(PvE), PvP, RPPVP, RP, and eventually Hardcore.
It is also true to the original Classic vision, which had RPPVP servers added in 2005. All of these rulesets being included is true to the authentic vision of classic WoW.
Shortly after posting this thread I saw a massive thread on the topic, please, if you agree with adding RP-PVP, if you want to play on one, if you don’t but want to support the community of thousands that do, please visit the thread I link below and show it some support, like, comment. A Blizzard dev once said on this topic “if you want it, make some noise.” Do that.