Granted, the penalty in this is'nt NEAR as bad as it used to be. If anyone got past level 30 in EQ then you know how painful dying could be. I had a friend that fell asleep once around his level 50's and his character was bound inside a hot zone where he could easily die if someone brought a train. Sure enough... he woke up the next day 4 levels lower. To put that in perspective guys... for casual gamers, thats months of lost work. For many people, it was the reason they QUIT the game. SOE does'nt want people quitting cause they kicked your butt so hard you did'nt want to even bother spending the time to get your exp back. I nearly quit once because I could'nt get to a bound spot for my ogre warrior. Lost thousands of platinum in armor and a level to boot trying to get back. I was a very very pissed player and there was NOTHING I could do to get back to my corpse.
I think the penalty now is a tad on the light side but thats probably because I'm a hardcore gamer and I love the feel of pressure to NOT DIE. All in all though, I think this is a definite improvement.
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