As someone who doesn’t enjoy PvP, but who did really enjoy the Thief games, this makes it infinitely more interesting, not less.

Couldn’t agree more. I just plain hide pvp-tagged games these days from steam/gmg/gog. Ive gone real hard on that stuff in the past and i just think i dont really have the same kind of happy fun i do compared to pve stuff.

RL is pvp, i dont need it in my escapism too x)

Same boat. But also feel like as an adult with limited time I don’t want to deal with others negativity. Nor do I in certain games have time to check in on my stuff regularly.

Chess is PvP. Negativity is not a necessary part of competitive gaming.

Bad example.

You have a lot of socially negative chess games?