Allen

If you're low on cash, venture into any User Created Dungeon with "Sniffer" in the title. Kill the "Fart Sniffer" in the first room, loot the body, end the adventure.

Konami had a hotline with a recorded walkthrough. I don't remember the cost per minute, but I remember holding a cassette player up to phone and recording the whole damn thing. It was INVALUABLE.

@Scuffles It must be cool to hate popular things and those who like it when you've never played that very thing.

Ignorant.

Chocolate-covered bacon. It's like a damn candy bar with bacon in it!

What examples are you thinking about with regards to MMOs that have suffered financially because of minor death penalties?

To answer the first part, not only no, but hell no! If there were a permadeath option on my MMO, I would not like it one bit.

To answer the second part, I think I'd have to be enticed with serious loot. I know that sounds terrible because the lure of fabulous prizes is essentially bribery, but that would certainly make me think twice about a permadeath option.

Explaining the way crafting used to be instead of the way it is now doesn't explain a thing!

There was a very thorough article on The Escapist about piracy. In the end, one of the recommendations made to reduce piracy was to release a demo! Releasing a demo gets more people excited about playing the game and increases the chance of buying it.

How does 100k stack up compared to other MMOs in their first 45 days or so? Cryptic boasted 1 million (forum) accounts, if only 10% of those are paid subscribers, isn't that low?