TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
It went much further than that in the OG game. For everyone's sake I hope Bluepoint has nerfed the scraping spear and soul sucker. The first is a weapon that reduces durability of your opponent's gear so players would have to spend a shyt load of time gathering souls just to repair all of their equipment. The soul sucker spell, while difficult to hit, would actually lower a player's level, making it possible to take away huge chunks of an unaware player's experience and force them to retread huge parts of the game just to level back up.*Plays into your fears again*
Those same players can also do the opposite and turn your single player adventure into a PVP on the spot deathmatch and all of the penalties of death still happen when actual humans kill you as well. Not lying about it a bit either. They do actually have to find you first tho, but you're duly aware when they invade your game so...
A combination of the two could be used to push a player back to square one if you realized too late you were getting fukked. Simply put, PvP in Demon's Souls became troll heaven and it was easily the worst thing about the game.