Syleynna wrote:Xaeminos wrote:
I don't think it has anything to do with the person's relationship with their character. I do however think it has a lot to do with a person's age/gender. I'm completely generalizing mind you.
The more sensitive you are, the more "dying" in a game (even though there is no actually loss of anything) affects you. The females I know that played all suffered this fear of dying syndrome when they first started playing. Now you take younger kids also. They're also more sensitive. There's a reason why on PvP servers the age was in general older. There's a reason why a lot of guilds were 18-21+.
If you were in your mid to late 20's when Vanilla hit, many people already had extensive experience playing Everquest and the like - which made Vanilla WoW seems like a casual game btw. From what I remember, when you're dead in Everquest, you're dead period.
I was one of those who thought PvE servers were carebear servers. But, mainly because I came from a background when you were dead, you stayed dead. The fact that Vanilla WoW was already a relatively casual game and people had issues with dying, it felt silly. Now the ironic part is the we eventually transferred realms to a PvE server because world PvP was dead and as I said in another thread, 40 people corpse hopping to your corpse to get into a raid was a waste of time.
Fear of dying syndrome. I love it! It makes sense now, which make sense why PVP'ers think PVE'ers fear dying in game, because they also think it's real. Fascinating! It has got to be something in their nature to be able to feel this strongly about an object that cannot feel. Kind of like those guys in Japan who marry anime characters. They think they are actually real! I wonder if it's also a cultural thing?
I like your answer, and logically it makes a lot of sense to me. I just am not that sort of person, I can separate real from fantasy, so never understood having fear of my toon dying. If anything, I crack up at the dying sounds my toons makes. I don't even bother to fight a PVP'er just let them kill me so it's done fast and I can move on with playing the game.
No. Lol. I don't think anyone thinks it's real. People just don't like "dying" i guess. Kind of when you see a "game over" in a video game. it's demoralizing and some don't like it. It's also like, when you play an online game say a fighting game like streetfighter or rts like starcraft. A lot of people stick to the computer just because they don't want to deal with the stress of potentially losing.
Well, If remember right, before the patches of Everquest, in Everquest, Ultima, and Runescape, you could lose your gear also. People who play WoW would lose their poop if that were the case.
