A humorous but rather insightful article at Zen of Design lays out the Eight Stages of Permadeath Debate. Here's the first two to get you started:1. Inquiry. “Hey, I know we’ve been talking about MUDs and permadeath for 25 years, but I bet no one’s thought of this angle!!”
2. Despair. “Please, Not the Permadeath Debate Again”, “Permadeath debates always drive me crazy”, “So I was going to stay the hell out of the permadeath discussion Damion started for no apparent reason other than, perhaps, that we were boring him.” ” I’m rather tired of recurring topics that do not go anywhere". Funny, everyone hates the debate, but no one can resist jumping into it. |