Proposing some sort of real death in a video game begs the question "what about real life?" or to be even more diametrically opposed, "what about real birth?" Perhaps MMORPG's should start your character as an infant and make you spend some time growing up. And the best part could be that when you do finally have an adult (or irreponsible teenager) character, you could mate with another player and have babies who could be new characters inherriting traits from the parents. This might even be good practice for meeting women in the real world. Although I can just see some of the in game conversations resulting.
Merlin: "Yeah so that elf chick I left the tavern with last night... Holy sh#&, she was an animal!"
Hrianth: "Nice duuuude. I struck out with that Ogre girl for some reason."
Merlin: "You're a 2 foot tall halfling and she was a 12 foot tall Ogre. You're way out of your league."
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Proposing some sort of real death in a video game begs the question "what about real life?" or to be even more diametrically opposed, "what about real birth?" Perhaps MMORPG's should start your character as an infant and make you spend some time growing up. And the best part could be that when you do finally have an adult (or irreponsible teenager) character, you could mate with another player and have babies who could be new characters inherriting traits from the parents. This might even be good practice for meeting women in the real world. Although I can just see some of the in game conversations resulting. Merlin: "Yeah so that elf chick I left the tavern with last night... Holy sh#&, she was an animal!" Hrianth: "Nice duuuude. I struck out with that Ogre girl for some reason." Merlin: "You're a 2 foot tall halfling and she was a 12 foot tall Ogre. You're way out of your league."
Wow, and I always thought keeping a Trojan in my pocket was a way of preventing the spread of viruses !