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Alex
PVE = Player Versus Environment = Unlike PVP where players have to fight against other players, PVE is where players fight the environment. This ranges from characters fighting mobs, having to interact with certain elements of their surroundings, or interacting with NPCs. In MMORPGs most of the game is generally player versus environment. This is where the game works in standard ways, unlike the more unpredictable play style in PVP, because in PVP you’re playing against other people, not pieces of code. In some ways it’s like the real world, always interacting with what’s around you. And some cases like social structures can be a lot like PVE, you do what is expected, you follow the rules. That is, until you don’t, then, suddenly you’re ‘breaking the rules’ and ‘being different’.
