Warcraft was marketed towards having PVP, that was one of its selling points.
They added huge amounts of pvp modes due to the popularity that was pvp.
In expansions past there was more people with the 1550 achievement than there was people with raid boss defeat achievements.
The only reason pvp has suffered is because the original devs are gone and we’re only left with the pve nerds who couldn’t pvp
If wow players are nerds and weirdos just say that then bro no need to type all that
you could argue it was the selling point. First two cinematic trailers was just world pvp promotional material. Come be an elf, fight an orc. Or a dwarf, fight a tauren.
the game was pretty straight forward. it’s an open world with factions, they’re at war. you can pick a side but you’re now at war, too.
It really was.
It wasn’t until the introduction to m+ that pvp participation went down in the rated areas, but even then casual pvp was still there
It’s a narrative choice to have pvp sidelined. BFA really dropped the ball by doing a twist where “actually we’re fighting for the future of azeroth, not for control of it.” while bringing everyone in the door with pretense of an all out faction war at launch.
Players should want to kill the other faction. Preaching peace is antithetical for the setting of warcraft. If they do that there needs to be some kind of plot point where conflict drives a wedge and the cycle continues. Still waiting on that wedge.
Wow pvp dead every xpac. You new ?
There’s a darker words for the upper echelon of WoW players. I swear half of Moonguard was on Dateline at some point.