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Gamers are now making arrangements to notify other players in the event of their own death. And there are sites that will help them do it.
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Hah. What a great point. How about "temporarily deceased"?
Chris
- by ElectricPotato March 25, 2009 4:54 PM PDT
- I must admit, I run a fairly large NWN2 game server, and over the last 2.5 years we have had about 22,000 players come and go and we have had a few pass away.
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(6 Comments)The first time it happened I was perplexed as to how to handle it. There are hundreds of people in-game that wonder where you have gone in some cases so I decided that I would simply add a few lines of info to a tombstone in the graveyard stating their login name and the characters that that player used and a simple Rest In Peace.