Reiraku

How does everyone having equal access to the same IO's for use in PvP translate as a desire to having better gear than another guy just to make them unhappy? That's a pretty huge leap of logic.

Why not at least modify your statement as a more accurate "some members of the PvP community would like..." rather than using an inaccurate wide brush? It might be a bit misleading, but at least it would be better than a generalization.

The community as a whole, or are you using the personal preferences of a minor fraction of the community to speak for them all?

But you weren't killed with one attack, that just happened to be the one attack that killed you. If a blaster hits me with Flares, Fire Blast, and Blaze, then a Defender tags me with brawl and kills me, I don't say that I was one-shotted by a Defender with brawl.

Because one can not be sure why person A is in the zone until they state as such. All person B knows is that there's someone in the zone that can kill them and if they want to survive, they had better strike first.

I love me some ERPvP

Placate is currently broken (and has been for a LONG time) for stalkers in PvP, and there hasn't been one-shotting stalkers in the game since i7. Not saying I agree with the OP, just clarifying that little bit.

This is more of a half and half statement. I consider myself part of the PvP community, and I would love to see more PvE content as well. It gives me something else to do while I level up those characters. Some others feel the same as I do, while some don't.

Actually, he says in his articles that playing to win and being a jerk are two separate things. You can still play to win and be friendly and sportsman like. You just don't hinder yourself with arbitrary rules because other people could use the factors of those rules to beat you. One's attitude as far as how they interact with you is a different issue all together.

Being robbed in real life is against the law. Being attacked in a PvP zone isn't. The analogy fails.

It works quite often, actually. I know it certainly does for a number of badging channels that run together on Virtue.

You avoid them by moving constantly and never in one direct location for too long. Don't stand still and vary your path as you go.

Then why complain about them stealing your XP? (which you would get a portion of anyways if you did damage to the NPC)

Never, ever rest in an open zone. It's a lot harder to kill you with virtually no life while you're on the run than it is to kill you in rest.

Nothing wrong with asking, just like there's nothing wrong with them denying your request. There is, however, something very wrong with getting a reward without the risk involved. Just the same as if you were earning XP in the PvE game with enemies attacking you. PvP IO farming got hit because of it, AE got hit because of it, and quite a few powers have gotten hit because of it. To seek out in-game rewards while circumventing the risk involved IS abuse, in accordance to the devs. You don't need to guess at that, they've outright said it.

Not really. It's the same on all the servers. There aren't roaming packs of 8 person death squads that shout profanities all over the place as many would suggest. The majority of people in a PvP zone usually keep the commentary to themselves and usually act either alone or in small teams. People don't see that though. They just see the one person spouting off and remember them rather than the other nine that didn't say a thing.

I always found that to be an odd reason. People won't sign off on the PvE game because of a jerk in a PuG, but will when it comes to PvP. Many will handily say "well, I'll just team with friends now instead of doing PuGs" but won't say "I'll just arena people in my SG/friends list instead of stay in the zones."

Exactly, how do you propose one does that? The only person I'm responsible for is myself, same as you. When I get to control what other people say, then maybe that will change.

Why do you take offense to people using the zone as intended? It's part of the understood risk of those zones that you can and will be attacked by other players. If you're worried about an 8 person team attacking you, get a team of your own for protection. If you don't want to get killed by running past an enemy, don't run near them. There are a dozen other zones to get XP in, why are you doing so in a place with a lower return and higher risk? Don't rest in an open zone, hit the base for that. And finally, they ARE in a PvP zone, as are you. Asking them to stop what they're doing so you can abuse the game's rewards is insulting to both them and the devs that made the zones.