Hi guys,

after playing the game since last Summer I feel the need to talk about some things I have seen in PVP and here in the forums. First I have to say that I love the game and think that ZOS are doing a great job at it, love PVE and PVP, and the content and feel of the game is awesome.
So I am not a very skilled PVP player and I probably will not achieve the level of mastery that I see in some players, great style and rotations, -I die every time-, but I also can learn a lot. I also love the group leaders that will tell you how to do it and really pack the group and make things happen for the campaign, great time and skills. So what I want to talk about here is the way some people perceive PVP to be and the way sometimes posters here very persistently try to get ZOS to change the rules to fit their playing style.
Okay so on my travels in Cyrodill I have encountered very passionate and skilled generals, soldiers and comrades who really bleed and give it all for the cause. They are all for the campaign and especially want loyalty to their way of experiencing the battlefield and the reality of war. These players will be very careful to form groups and to work with new arrivals sent to the war from all of Tamriel. They mostly work with people from their alliance guilds and are very distrustful of anyone in Cyrodill fighting the war in a different way.
Now, there are also soldiers that come to Cyrodill and the first thing to manage is how to survive and finding a group to join. I believe that for a very large group of players of ESO this is the main way of approaching PVP: go there, find a group, try to catch up and please don't die on me.......dead...res pls....... ....... ..... load screen..... ...... wait for me......oh no another zerg.......dead.........where is everybody now.....oh group leader changed......no one taking charge.......group is disbanded.......lfg...........lfg..........dead..........LFG..............I think I really need to go to bed......just this quest, almost have it.....dead.......LFG....... Perhaps many or may I say, a great numbers of ESO players don't do PVP because of how difficult it sometimes is to get going and have a good time at it. Here is where the help and the expertise and mastery of the PVP general will be oh so very useful, if they were more patient and less distrustful.
So I have had very positive and somewhat less positive experiences with my comrades, especially the ones that think that I or other soldiers are playing for the enemy. Spies they say. Now there may very well be spies, as in real war, but certainly not because the way we play differs from the way these players expect all to play.
So the fact that people have characters in different alliances does not automatically mean that they play against the alliance they are currently PVPing in. Yes, the possibility is there, but it is not something that you can assume right away.
I really and honestly play my character and do my very best in PVP for the alliance I am fighting for, no matter if the next day I am a different soldier fighting for a different alliance. I am loyal to my character and fight the best way I manage for the campaign effort. This is the beauty of ESO, a mixture of role playing and all the other things an MMO brings.
But sometimes things don't work well, yes I die and bleed too. I might have lost a keep or lost the opportunity to get a scroll, but that does not make me a traitor.

So for the experienced and somewhat exclusive PVPs out there I want to say, give us casual, non-in-your-guild PVPs a chance. Yes, join our group please, invite us, we can only learn the many good strategies of war from you.
The other day after half an hour of lfg....lfg.....lfg.... I decided to start a new group because there were many lone soldiers trying to lfg themselves (prime time, full campaign). But some comrades I invited left right away after either seeing we were kind of small at first and/or because of some reason I do not get at the moment (perhaps they do not like my name ).
To all the casual PVP players and to the PVE players I can only say to try it and to dare start a group if no one invites you. PVP can be such a rewarding experience, also a very frustrating one, but hey, so is life itself.

Okay, so why write all this? Because here on the forums some people come and try to lobby ZOS to change PVP so that the way they play is respected. I have a problem with people who call for more regulation and/or limitations so that their way will come through and their way of doing things will be rewarded while punishing everybody else's, be it people who play at night, or people with many characters, or people who just want to have a fun evening, perhaps even just being a lord of misrule. Thus been said, I do respect the campaign effort and would love to become such a skilled player as many of the soldiers I see here on the forums and in Cyrodill myself. Patience goes both ways.

Okay, so just for fun and full disclosure let me present you my characters:

For King and Glory: D'aryn, silencer with a lion's heart and T'agwyr, yokudan terror and humble smithy
For the Pact: B'eryth and K'ewan, my lovely Nords with a heart of ebony, both bending the rules of the possible with arcane magic
For the most fair Queen: L'adaryel, dark lord and S'eladiel, still growing up, both elegant yet fierce

So guys, have a great time, be courteous and hope to meet you sometime at a nice tavern somewhere in Tamriel or fight among you for the ruby throne
Cheers!