We don't need PvE. You can be in the bubble in open and not run into any human players for ages. Just don't hang around hotspots and you won't get ganked. Simples.
And why would people settle for playing in only part of the game if the don't play the game your way?
Most of the arguments against Open PvE seems all about "play it my way or hit the high way"? Open PvE mode is not going to do away with Open PvP mode. Yet the PvP players seem to be scared to the bone that Open PvE would somehow render their gameplay irrelevant (actually it kind of already is.) An Open PvE mode just adds to the Open/Group/Solo mode. And takes nothing away.
People on this forums are also suggesting that all the players suddenly get together and play the PvE game in the face of the Alien menance. So now PvP becomes irrelevant again?
This is a PvE game where the devs decided that players can shoot each other. Why? Cause there is no Solo offline mode( and some really "smart" people came up with this "brilliant" theory (lie) that MMO = PvP.) So any game mechanic has to consider the promises FDev made to the backers who wanted Solo offline and got Solo online. Guess what people, Solo mode has no PvP cause you can't meet other people? Simples?
The only thing that's actually lacking is Open PvE for those not really interested in showing off their epeen and being l337. Or old men trying the feel "alive".