Will there be pvp ?

I'd guess 2020 at the earliest (in a limited/gated form), but It could be never.

IF it happened I could only see it in a very restricted 'Thunderdome' style not in the open world as that would screw weapon balance for PVE.

No pvp. Why do your friends insist on pvp?

you could do that in a non mmo version of the game sure, but why bother when everyone has the exact same gear options ?

there is literally zero point to pvp in this game and its one of the primary draws of the bioware games the multiplayer doesnt involve ganking, if people insist on games that have that sort of nonsense they can go play some hackfest that does (and thats the primary reason those games devolve so quickly to hackfests) 

literally every single game that has pvp has a dozen cheat programs associated with it a week before launch hell I hate cheating in games and I cant wait for games makers to figure out how to prevent it permentantly even if that method is to blow up peoples hardware, theres no excuse for lazy devs and producers that permit that stuff and if it wasn't for gameguard (or similar) providing certain cheat programs there likely wouldn't be a need to protect against them (much like early virus protection and companies like Norton who created the viri and used subscribed machines to spread them "by accident" whcih in turn created lots of new customers) 

about the only people who like pvp games these days are those that think using some variant of trainer makes them leet….  loot your gear off farming boss raids until you upgrade it high enough your on a par with those boss's in difficulty to take down and still get one shot by some script kiddy with a low level weapon and tell me you like pvp games …. 

I really hope there won't be any pvp. I play Destiny 2 and pvp aspects are really annoying especially when certain progression is locked behind pvp activities.

No, you'll play PvP and you'll eat your broccoli too, young man.

They should focus on co-op in Anthem. If you want PVP go play a PVP game. There are lots of great PVP games out there to chose from.

Besides that would probably be lore breaking considering outside Fort Tarsis it is the freelancers against nature and everything else. It would be weird to have them killing each other.

One of the things I loved about ME3MP is that it attracted people who were (almost without exception -- and I can name those exceptions) good team players who fostered a sense of "we're in this together." PVP would likely attract the type of gamer who would make the game less enjoyable for me.

You didnt play MP with Shepard though. In this game, it would be with your current javelin that you use for everything else.

You mean like it could perfect the shooter elements by excluding the RPG aspects or is that a different kind of mishmash?