Permanent Death Servers

[Reika]

Only if you die in RL too, like SAO

[syntaxlies]

<sarcasm>You're right, it takes forever to powerlvl to lvl 50...not to mention all the danger involved in gathering materials to spam enter craft</sarcasm>

I for one think this would be a fun alternative. I imagine everyone would have a character on these servers and cherish them with ll they've got. The only problem I could see is running past a zone full of agro mobs that don't appear on your map til you're already dead. Once the regional servers are up and running and the new server architecture is in place for ARR this could be feasable.

exactly how many lvl 50's do you think will be PL'ing people on a server with permadeath.

fyi, this is the worst idea ive heard yet from any thread from any forum from any game.

[A_Hortensia]

exactly how many lvl 50's do you think will be PL'ing people on a server with permadeath.

I don't think PLing will exist in ARR.

Anyway.... TAC~TICS!!!

[ninesunz]

I'm Ninesunz and i approve of a perma death server, for i would play in it.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

And for all the people that don't want to go on this server, they have hours of entertainment. They get to watch videos of people dying permanently. It's a bitter sweet feeling, I can laugh all day at those.

[Tonkra]

the server would be so populated like the current servers.

i dont know how this would work. how many deaths you had in 1.0.? hundreds? that'd mean hundreds of new characters? I personally would get bored at the character creation screen then ;D

"lets fight garuda for the first time" "oh no sorry i heard she is too difficult we may die, especially on the first try". as the same for all other bosses. relic weapons or even primal weapons? forget about it. perma death doesnt work in -any- game.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

perma death doesnt work in -any- game.

That's a bold statement. I'll take the pepsi challenge on that any day of the week.

[Nero]

perma death doesnt work in -any- game.

Diablo II
Diablo III

to name 2 Games with permanent death-modes. Want me to name you 10 more?

[TohruHonda]

If killed you're given the option of transferring to a normal server.

As someone who has played and enjoyed perm death RPGs, I must say this is one of the worst ideas yet. Basically as idiotic as the Diablo 3 players saying characters lost in hardcore mode should be transferred into normal mode.

[Atoli]

* When you die in-game you also die IRL.

Someone has been watching way too much SAO I guess x)
Well I'm not one to complain. I just recently said how awesome such a game would be because you treasure your life a lot.. (except for the die in RL part obviously xD)
I think it's too expensive to have a whole server running for the few who'd want to go there. But I always kind of enjoyed PK servers in some games (although I hate PvP) because dying and losing equipment was permanent so I became extremely careful not to die or be found and learned how to outrun enemies and such. It's a lot of fun :3

But not for a main character after all.