Gamespot has an amusing review of the multiplayer online role-playing game we’re all stuck playing known as Real Life.
Player death is a serious issue in real life, and cause for continued debate among players, who often direct unanswerable questions on the subject to the game’s developers, who are apparently (and understandably) so busy that they generally keep silent. In short, players who die–at the hands of other players, by the occasional environmental hazard, or when their account expires–are essentially removed from the gameworld and apparently cannot return at all. This further discourages players from engaging in PVP combat, but it does help real life’s rapidly growing player population from getting too out of hand (though eventually there will be a need for additional servers).