Quote Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus View Post
just as long as the harsher penalty isn't to harsh. Gamers of all game levels play mmo. People sometimes are not that great with video games but enjoy playing them. Like myself, i'm not that epic of a gamer. I have a hard time playing some games on the hardest settings. Not everyone is an expert player. So a too harsh penalty will scare ppl away.
LOL I play on normal or hard at most and feel accomplished, I know the feeling.

As far as penalty goes what they had in FFXI was not harsh at all unless you were truely "new" and would get raised and run back into more aoe for another faceplant. 2400 XP/SP (65+) isn't too bad and this is at a higher level not at the start, at these levels you have access to raise which reduces the loss by alot.

you also had key items that further reduced the loss, these things helped lessen the impact but still steer players to play less zerg-like and more tactically.