So pvp yea.
This is pvp: you are a wolf, or a sheep.
This brings out something primal in people, I think mostly men. There was a time when, if you wanted something from the guy over the hill, you could pretty much just march over the hill and take it with brute force. That’s an exciting prospect for a few, maybe not for the guy over the hill, if they couldn’t defend themselves.
Now we live in a world of civilization and government; there are a few places left out there; but by and large; we are thought controlled, speech controlled, arms controlled, movement controlled (both physically and economically) and funneled through cattle gates until we are broken and old; then closeted up in a square room to pass away.
Maybe there is some psychological release of pent up anger; there is no equipment or gold looting in wow, so there’s not much else in it for the pvper that I see.