I played the first Siren's Call event as a villain, and we were generally on the losing side of things. Those in my instance figured out the ultimate PvP strategy, outnumbering people = winning, and we were winning in our little local fights, even if we ultimately lost the battle. The rest of those in other instances were just simply losing, but yet you didn't hear that much whining from the villain players about how PvP was unbalanced or whatever, just a sort of general relief that heroes could still hold their own.
Now what I find really IRONIC and AMUSING is in this second event, the tables turned on the heroes, and suddenly they were the ones outnumbered.
The heroes are now flaming the boards with whines and complains about PvP being unbalanced, unfair, getting ganked by stalkers, yadda yadda.
Could it be as Quason suggests:
"The really amusing thing is that, when the shoe was on the other foot in the Siren's event, those who were playing heroes were bragging about how they slaughtered the villains, and for the most part, those who played villains didn't whine about it. They pointed out the skewed numbers, but mostly left it at that.
*shrug* Must be a certain mindset of people that play heroes vs those who play villains. Not sure how else to explain it."
I had to miss this second PvP event cos I was working, but puh-lese, even if you ARE getting ganked in the hospital spawns and finding it unfair, complain about that part, the specific details - not about how villains are overpowered, and PvP is unbalanced, and other general complaints that the sky is falling because you suck and don't care to admit it. :P
And this is a beta, your characters are wiped, no debt, no nothing, nothing electronic left but memories. *boggle*
Me, I'd prefer the option for no xp debt to go in, then I would play like hell these PvP zones when I felt like it, because hey, it's just FOR FUN. So what if you die?
I was repeatedly ganked by heroes because I foolishly chose to run like an idiot into hotspots solo with no villain backup the first few times I got into Siren's Call. Is it the fault of the heroes? Because they are so UBER and omgz0rsl33t? Because dey r bullies for holding and chain-mezzing me in a helpless state with absolutely no break frees, and no stores to buy break frees cos villains started out on the losing side? And I was desperately trying to superspeed away, but the holds just caught me and stopped me cold and preserved me for the scrappers to serve me up like sashimi?
Er, no. If I was a moron who could not fault myself, then yea, I would lash out like that.
Thankfully, I'm not -that- stupid. I'm clever enough to realize where I -was- being stupid. Ie. running into an organized team of 8 hero players solo.
Naturally, I WOULD be held - that's what 'trollers do, right? And debuffed by defenders. And whacked on by blasters, tanks and scrappers, tho I think only the scrapper got a chance, the poor corruptor died too fast for the rest to reach.
People, it's PVP. The goal is to kill the other guy. It's not freaking personal if you are on the losing end and blown into itsy bitsy pieces again and again. Especially in a zone PvP event. If say, you were alone, trying to do a PvE mission, and this group repeatedly pwnz0rs you for fun and to hassle you with insults and all, then yes, something is wrong. But if you come for a PvP event, EXPECT TO DIE if you run stupidly into a group of organized opponents.
Doh.
And stop whining, yeesh.
My villain never whined. He just tried again and again. He got a random group of 8 together, which got demolished by a team of 8 heroes who were plainly in communication with each other. Repeatedly. This random group of 8 allowed themselves to be strung out and kited, so yea, finished.
Finally he found a big ass scuffle in the water with like 30-40 villains who off'ed the few dumbass scrappers who thought they could take on the army. Then smartly stuck with them and we steamrolled through sheer force of numbers in our mini-team.
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