Permanent Deaths in MMOs, Good or Bad?

  
This is a reply article to Neramaar’s article: Perma-Death and Time Travel - The Ironic Truth.

The article is about permanent deaths in MMOs games and how the game experience will be so different from the original MMOs that we have today. I say, Perma-Deaths for the win. I will now talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this great new idea that will make games selling off the roof.

 The Good:

• Make games more exciting and fearful for even experienced players will be watching their backs every now then.
  

• It is something new and fresh as Neramaar said in his article.
  

• Tons of new ideas come with perma-death which I will talk about later on the article.
  

• A PK system on a game with perma-death will be heart-pounding. Risking yourself to go in a high level area would take lots of guts

• A person with anger issues and sensitive individuals who dislikes dying will probably not enjoy the game very well, in my opinion.

• Starting all over from scratch will suck, especially when your level is very high and your character has nice equipments.
  

• Will definitely not work in some MMOs that we have today where you can’t dodge attacks by moving.
  

• Item Mall with attack boosts and defense boost will be unfair for those who don’t have money to buy those.

• We definitely can’t have a level 70 raiding a level 30 village can we? So PK/PVP system will have a level limit so the one you are killing will have a chance to fight back.
  

• New movement controls such as crouch, double jump, and dodge roll.

• Player killer’s names will be put somewhere in towns.
  

• A system where you can get points or money for defeating a wanted pker.
  

• Must be level 10 or higher to PVP and PK, so we don’t have beginning players being slaughtered in the first town.
  

• God will let you transfer items to a new character. Only some items.
  

• Able to loot a dead character’s body. (Hehehe…) Now wouldn’t that be a pain in the ass having some one in your party looting your body and takes your nicest things? Rare items can’t be looted. Only money and normal items. (But it will still suck)
  

• When you die after…let’s say after level 30 and then you were reborn. Your appearance will change to whether you were a good or evil person in your first life. (Like maybe have a halo floating on top of your head or horns growing out of your head.) Then if you reach like level 70 then died, you are reborn with a devil wing or an angel wing.
  

• A town system where you can buy a home. (Actually any game with this would be nice).
  

• If you are a pker, there will be a limit to how many people you can kill per day or in weeks. But if attacked, you can attack back.
  

I know, my article isn’t as pretty as Neramaar with his Photoshop, so =P to you. And if you think some of my ideas aren’t very good, please state which and why.

That’s all for now, later.

Happy leveling to whatever game you are playing. (Hahah that rhymed...)

Thanks Neramaar for the awesome article.

- John