PVP and Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online
Why I think they might actually have gotten it right.
Firstly, I was really worried when I found out the end game for STO would be PVP-centric. That just doesn’t really work normally for any number of reasons which I wont go into just yet.. Traditionally if you look at all the major (even minor) MMO’s out there that have tried, you’ll see that they have generally failed or aren’t entirely PVP based.. Eve Online being one that hasn’t failed and does really well, but I believe that’s largely due to being the only game in it’s market. By and large however, PVP only games just don’t do that well with the masses..
I believe that there are 4 primary reasons for PVP being problematic in most games:
