Been gone a while, whats the deal with PVP leagues?

So, I played the crap out of this game for a few weeks. I really loved it, thought it would be the answer. I read about cutthroat leagues and such. I was excited. When none of that came to fruition, I moved on.

I read on MMORPG this game was going release. I come to the site and still can find out any hard details on what is going on with PVP.

Will there be a hardcore PVP world, where we can go into each others areas and kill/loot them? Something like Dark Souls?

Will there be real arenas and rankings?

Will there be PVP specific items?

The base game is fun and all, but for any game to keep me around and for me to spend money, I need PVP for me to commit.

They really need to paint some kind of picture of the roadmap to pvp for the next year.

There will be tournaments, rankings, guild vs guild events, tournaments, CTF, FFA, Achievement titles, and cutthroat already exits...they have done many events between season, and during season 4. I agree I need pvp to commit and I specifically spent money because I wanted to help them fund with the new pvp news. I like ggg, but I feel your pain as pvp has been on the back burner for awhile. KIll people at bandits for a good rush and to also take your strife to the streets, as I like to say.

this link has some nice info on release pvp planned improvements

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/536969

the last half of the gamespot review also talk about it

http://www.gamespot.com/videos/path-of-exile-scion-class-and-new-updates-now-play/2300-6415315/