VeeshanVault

Would you play EQ if it had Perm Death for a character potential at the high end of the game? How about if not perm death but a perm stat loss per death/rezz?

I don't remember the exact game mechanics of UO, but permanent stat losses are pretty much what made me quit playing oh so many years back. IIRC, I lost like 5 or 10% of all my GM stats after a death, and that pretty much killed my desire to ever play that game again.

So no, I'd hate that.

I used to play on a MUD where you got 100 deaths period.

It made things interesting since it was also unrestricted PVP

EQ requires too much time investment in character development for "permanent death" to be a marketable option.

it jsut is not fun if you lose 200 days of work.

games are supposed to be fun

It's a shame that marketing determines the quality of a game. I understand the need and the thought behind it but I just don't like it from an old time gamer aspect. In PnP if you got killed, you got killed and then you rolled up a new guy. But then again that is the RP aspect that online games could never master. The games and the rewards are objective and not subjective. Sometimes I miss the old AD&D games.

For this to be a bit more successful you would probably have to make it harder to die as you level up though.

If I survived forever then got 1 shot manaburned and had to restart...well.... things would not be pretty

severly doubt it.

I wouldnt play EQ period.