Estinien's Fate? [SPOILER discussion]

[EdwinLi]

Honestly killing of a character that isn't liked has little value unless they are specifically outright hated. Otherwise they have no real value for bringing emotion to the narrative. Im also rather hoping Alphinaud doesn't screw up for a change because otherwise it pretty much makes all his development since 2.55 obsolete.

This may sound offensive and aggressive to some people but...

I think that part of a personal issue that they would bring in personal emotions into determining the fate of characters.

If they don't like them they want the character they hate to die but if they like them they want the character to live.

Killing off a character just because a person hates the character is never a good in my book because I feel that when a character dies the player should feel sad for a protagonist death not jump around happy that the person died.

It also feels like a rather stubbern way to remove a character because it a method to prevent that character from returning thus preventing the chance for that hated character to develop or change into a more likable personality once they return to take part in a Major storyline.

There is also the issue that if a character is not OMG Awesome Character people seem to want them dead or being "useless" in combat. Not every ally we gain will be some awesome skilled fighter of course and their skills are most likely more into non-combat skills such as politics, trading, or negotiations so when it comes to combat they will mostly be useless but some people just can't accept these type of non-combat characters as ally in a Storyline thus they want them "killed off" because they're Useless in battle despite all their efforts to gain support for our character's goal through politics and negtiations.

It is also most noticable that the characters that people want to keep alive are often the very skilled combat characters and the non-combat characters are often considered useless and wanted to be killed off.