Poll: Would you play a DiD (Dead is Dead) MMORPG?

[onelifecrisis]

If someone released a MMORPG which was designed from the ground up as a "Dead is Dead" game (where death would result in you having to start a new character from scratch) would you play it? Or would you be put off? Explain your answers...

EDIT
By way of an explanation...
I used to play Diablo II online in "Hardcore" (DiD) mode, and I loved it. Diablo III is coming soon, and hopefully I'll once again be able to play it DiD style, but I've noticed that nobody has ever (AFAIK) made a DiD MMO, not even Blizzard. If someone did make one then I'd certainly be interested. As well as being more exciting, I think DiD would actually solve a lot of problems inherent in normal MMOs. But perhaps there's just no market for such a game. I'm curious, hence the poll.

 

[Rossmallo]

Hell no. If there was any sort of PVP you'd get griefed to hell. No thanks.

 

[onelifecrisis]

Hell no. If there was any sort of PVP you'd get griefed to hell. No thanks.

Good point. And if there was no PvP, just co-operative play? Then what?

 

[sam_tankms]

yea as long as it was f2p or a one time payment i dont think i could if i had to play every month

and pvp could still be in the game it would just be there to teach n00b not to run there mouths

 

[Squarewave]

With every MMO I've played there was a small vocal group asking for a perma-death server. I'm not really sure why, sure in games that you can get to the end in 40~ hours or so I can see why someone would want it.

MMOs just are not well suited for perma death, they are made to keep people playing long as possible and dieing after you spent 300 hours on a guy forcing you to lose everything would send people into blind rages. Yea, they could make a MMO that only takes 40 hours to get endgame but people wouldn't stick with it for more then a month

If you really want to you can just put some self enforced rules into any MMO that you will delete your guy after he dies, Ive heard of people doing it with wow and eq2 in order to make the game challenging

 

[onelifecrisis]

Yea, they could make a MMO that only takes 40 hours to get endgame but people wouldn't stick with it for more then a month

Isn't WoW supposed to be more popular than god? And from what I've read you can get to the maximum character level in about 40 seconds?

If you really want to you can just put some self enforced rules into any MMO that you will delete your guy after he dies, Ive heard of people doing it with wow and eq2 in order to make the game challenging

It would't really be the same though, would it? For a start, you'd be the only one playing DiD - everyone else in your party would, presumably, be playing normally and that means taking risks that no DiD player would take, which in turn means putting your DiD character at risk.

I'm talking about a game being designed from the ground up as a DiD game.

 

[Jarc42]

Sounds incredibly difficult and not beginner friendly. But it ramps up the intensity, I guess.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Well...maybe.
As long as it is a good MMO, not like Runes of magic.

 

[Amarok]

I once had a weird little "gotta fill the time walking to school" fantasy about such an MMO. It involved zombies and survivers (original, yeah?)

I think such an MMO would only work if there was very little focus on stats and levels and more focus on actual skill and skills (by Skill I mean being able to exploit environments, reaction-time needed and strategic thought, and by skills i mean funky things your character could do).

Also, like someone above me has said, people might not wanna pay montly for what would essentially be a repeated cycle, so maybe it'd have to take the Guild Wars approach and be free and hand out love and kindness to everyone.

 

[li-ion]

I once wondered why your characters in an MMO are not connected somehow. For example playing an aspiring family in a fantasy (steampunk?) setting or a growing corporation in a SF-setting. That would prevent that the death of one of your characters destroys everything you did so far. But wants you to keep them alive because you would still loose one character and to some degree progress, wealth or influence.

So to answer the question: No, I wouldn't play a MMO with something like diablo 2 hardcore mode. I played some d2hc since it was fun for a while after playing normal got boring, but it wouldn't be something I want to play for longer time. And I wouldn't buy a game where this hardcore mode is the only available mode.