Although these interviews haven't seemed entirely accurate, here is what the western producer has to say about some of this stuff.
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Brian: As far as end game content goes, we don?t want to force players down a certain route in our game. You?ll be receiving benefits and rewards from PvP and PvE that are pretty much the same. By doing that, we allow players to transfer back and forth a little bit easier between the two playstyles. Aion?s the type of game where, if you don?t want to participate in PvP, you don?t have to. But you very well can and enjoy capturing fortresses and pwning people as well.
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From what I have read so far from other players on PvP, if these guys want big numbers in the western market they are going to NEED to accommodate people who want to purely PvE, otherwise they are going to see some sub-par subscriber numbers compared to their eastern market. Though I think instead of actually doing that they are just implying such PvE without lying outright and saying it does exist, unless part of their release plans is a some sort of PvE patch. Eventually the preview events will let people get access to more PvP/Abyss stuff (I would think) and they have an idea of what numbers they will actually get.