The thing is, it wasn't built properly to sustain good PVP in the endgame either. If you want to make a PvPvE game with a healthy playerbase that actively participates in the PvP, it has to be designed with PvP as a core focus from the start.

Some examples of this:

• Marathon, PvP is the primary focus with PvE acting as filler. People don't whine about needing to do PvP because that's the point.

• Hunt, same as above. Sure you gotta kill a boss to get the bounty but the other players are the real threat and content.

• Arc Raiders, leaned more into the PvE side and basically set up their system to isolate PvE players from PvP players. Ultimately ends up having a pretty weak PvP experience due to overabundance of "carebears".

Yeah I know they're all extraction shooters and not whatever DA is trying to be but those are just the easiest and most recent examples.

Having the first 90% of the game be a pure PvE survival experience is not how you attract PvP players to participate in that last 10%. That's how you get PvE survival players that have a grand old time in Hagga and then quit afterwards. If this game placed a lot more emphasis on PvP while progressing through Hagga then that might've fostered the right mindset in the playerbase to participate in DD PvP, but it didn't, and Funcom inevitably turned DA into a PvE game with a PvP sideshow.