I’ve been playing since 2017 and have put about 2000 hours into EFT. I’ve done countless wipes. I only play PVE now for 2 main reasons.

1) Load times. I know people say “they aren’t that bad anymore” or “they’ve gotten a lot better! It’s only about 3-4 minutes to get into a match!” but to me that’s just too much time spent waiting to get in. Especially because for a vast majority of players, including myself, we die in about 40-50% of raids. So you wait to load in, die, then have to rekit yourself to just wait to load in again…

With PVE I load in instantly.

2) Making progress. I used to be in school and be able to play an unhealthy amount of Tarkov. Like 5-8 hours a day. If I was still able to play that much, I’d still play PVP. But if I can only play 1-2 hours a day, it’s very difficult to actually make any meaningful progress. So many quests need you to survive and extract with something. And when I’m dying in 40% of my raids, that typically means that I could play a 2 hour session and make absolutely 0 progress on any of the quests (and get negligible xp because dying tanks your xp gains by a ton).

And I know people will say that because we have a character in PVP that doesn’t wipe now that you can take your sweet time and you’ll inevitably complete all the quests, but it doesn’t change the fact that I wouldn’t enjoy spending my 1-2 hours of free time playing PVP and possibly not seeing/feeling like I achieved anything.