Update: PVE Realms announcement

[Kharybdis]

Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback about the PVE realms. We do appreciate your passion for the game and are grateful for your opinions. While we will still proceed with implementing PVE realms, we have decided to limit Banner of Heaven to PVP realms only. Between this and the upcoming Territory Wars, we hope you understand that we aren't looking to take away PVP in ESO. We're making it a game that is friendly for all playstyles.

Regarding timeframe, these will be ready at the same time as the Territory Wars. The In Development page has been updated as well.

[Xkillerx - Fort Phoenix]

Good luck on those updates. First post . edit - good to see that banners will be in PvP realms only

[Lo - Ancestral Ruins]

Originally Posted by Kharybdis

Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback about the PVE realms. We do appreciate your passion for the game and are grateful for your opinions. While we will still proceed with implementing PVE realms, we have decided to limit Banner of Heaven to PVP realms only. Between this and the upcoming Territory Wars, we hope you understand that we aren't looking to take away PVP in ESO. We're making it a game that is friendly for all playstyles.

Regarding timeframe, these will be ready at the same time as the Territory Wars. The In Development page has been updated as well.

Love your work Kharybdis

[DCynic - Ancestral Ruins]

Good to hear =)

[Sunsetter - Ancestral Ruins]

I believe you have made the right decision .
Hopefully you will be able to adapt PVE realms and PVP realms to prevent PK-ing realm hoppers to avoid their fate.

[Monochrome - Ancestral Ruins]

If someone PKs and their name is red they can still be attacked in PvE realms if I read right. So there is not way to escape other than sitting in a safe zone which... they have been doing so far.

[Sunsetter - Ancestral Ruins]

Originally Posted by Monochrome - Ancestral Ruins

If someone PKs and their name is red they can still be attacked in PvE realms if I read right. So there is not way to escape other than sitting in a safe zone which... they have been doing so far.

True, however the fact that a red name can log in/log out without having to wait just a bit, makes it easy for them to realm hop and thus flee from PK-ers. This goes for red names, and white.

A fatal flaw for PK-ing.

[Monochrome - Ancestral Ruins]

I guess so. Well, there is always that odd random PKer who harass people for no reason at all. So the person being attacked should have a way to escape. But with PvE realms coming up, those who are strictly non-PvP has a safer place to level now.

[Sunsetter - Ancestral Ruins]

Originally Posted by Monochrome - Ancestral Ruins

I guess so. Well, there is always that odd random PKer who harass people for no reason at all. So the person being attacked should have a way to escape. But with PvE realms coming up, those who are strictly non-PvP has a safer place to level now.

Technically, no. You wouldn't really see the PK-ing until the PK-er attacked you, and you wouldn't be able to log out anymore.

However it is annoying when they log in their realm first, and the second they see you log on, they hop, since you have that little time of recognition upon logging on, after the interface loaded. They can easily get away, and have the time to homestone once the CD is done, or hop again to another realm, thus making you find out which one, going back, and have them hop again.

It's already happened to me before; one managed to hop to 10 realms before I gave up and PK-ed her friends I saw on one of the realms I hopped to chasing her.

[Lo - Ancestral Ruins]

Originally Posted by Monochrome - Ancestral Ruins

I guess so. Well, there is always that odd random PKer who harass people for no reason at all. So the person being attacked should have a way to escape. But with PvE realms coming up, those who are strictly non-PvP has a safer place to level now.

And a nice place to possessor without coming back 12 hours to find you were pked 11 hours ago and your alliance is joking about your body just sitting there for 10 hours straight haha