I followed up on Ashes for quite a while. But I gave up when I saw they are making it a PvE game, severely punishing any PvPer that attacks someone who doesn't want to fight back, by getting his geared (that is hard to come by) completely destroyed, and other punishments including, him not being able to even defend himself anymore because his stats getting reduced more and more, and if anyone attacks him further, not even being allowed to try to defend yourself without getting even more negative effects on you.
It's a complete BS them calling that game a PvP game. It's simply a carefully planned con to try to draw unaware PvP players to cash in to.
I told them no ty, and I left, and never looked back.