[Milawe]

Well, not all of us are saying that. Some of us are saying that we erect a barrier between ourselves and our permadeath characters because we have no idea when our character development could get destroyed by some random player who has decided to take a hating to our character. Thus, the character becomes less immersive for us because we can't fully engage. Permadeath isn't really what is the problem. The problem becomes the people who play on permadeath muds and become a real risk to our characters through no choice of our own. For some, the senseless death of a character by another player within 45 minutes of creation is just a speed bump. For some of us who like to invest a lot of time into our character's background find that as a game stopper unless we decide to distance ourselves from the character in the first place. Once that distancing takes place, the entire world and gameplay experience becomes less immersive.