PK Rant

[gekko]

This topic, BTW, has been done to death, and by people who could write a page for each sentence you used.

Sorry to lengthen what has been, as you say, beaten to death. I've read Sirian's protest several times, and the HC element is the one that none of blizzard's responses touch on (or so it seems to me). All the garbage about adding excitement or reality simply falls apart when you consider HC. It is NOT exciting to have to worry about permanently loosing your character with virtually no warning. It is even worse when you consider blizzard's poor track record of combatting hacks on the realms. Permanently loosing a character to hacks is not exciting, period. Even if you have a good attitude concerning HC chars (death isn't the end of a HC char; it's the begining of a new one <--- not my quote, can't remember who said it), it's not a good thing to lose it to hacks (particularly not on the "hack-free" realms).

I also saw the amazon basin and the pandemonium fortress named, and I'd like to add my voice to that. Playing with good people is always a pleasure, and any games set up through those two excellent forums (I'm including WT in the "forums" btw) will be filled with great people.

gekko