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So, of all the reductions to choose, here's one I'm willing to live with for now: the confrontation between pvp I would just say gamers, but that would start contextualizing and pve.

Twixt 2009

No one wants to farm MEANINGLESS items for their pve sets.

Blizzard v WoW Glider: Interesting, no? 2008

The difference between WoW servers (say), could potentially be huge - even if you're dealing with shards in the same battle group and type (i.e. pve, pvp, etc.) with the same population level on the same faction with the same sysadmins.

Arden: Final Results 2008

I am very happy it's a pve server, as the fights are not literal.

Archive 2008-11-01 Torill 2008

As a platform for a living virtual reality WoW provides little room to make ones mark beyond politics of loot and organization of thematic raids into set pve instances.

GDC 2008: The Future of MMOs 2008

I am very happy it's a pve server, as the fights are not literal.

I am sick! Really! Torill 2008

This "something they want to do" may be perfectly kosher within the rules of the game but (more commonly in my experience) it is some distorted version of "house-rules" within the rules of the game which favor group (eg,"social", warm and fuzzy, pve-ish) play rather than individual (eg, antagonistic, greedy, pvp-ish) play.

What to Call a Griefer? 2007

ATITD didnt have pvp or pve , other than a few ritualised games.

Us Being Human 2007

Much like "pvp build vs pve build" debates, raid builds force you to specialize for one specific encounter.

Is Raid Content Accessible to the Mortal Man? 2006

Desire of self desire of society; pvp self pve self.

WoW-nnui 2006