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If money is no issue to players who are deep in it as many of you keep saying, then what harm is there in alleviating some serious frustration to sub 20 players? The fact that you keep saying money is no issue for you invalidates your point that penalties are necessary.

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I'm not sure why I continue in this discussion. I've outlined what I believe are some serious mechanical issues. You guys disagree fundamentally (mostly with strawmen, might I add.) I think I'm in this for a different type of experience than some of you.

Other than the reward.

Did you read any of my blog? TLDR: I want to engage players and the death penalty discourages that.

I know my original post is pretty scathing, but I'd like to make one thing clear: I mostly really like GTA Online. I love the world and want to spend time mucking about in it. I'm just baffled as to why they'd choose to make death the money sink that balances the economy, since doing so significantly harms the play experience. Why not simply seperate ammo counts between competive and free roam and make bullets cost much more in free roam? That would further discourage the kind of serial murder griefing that currently plagues servers and transfer the cost of such shenanigans from the victim to the assailant. I mean, this stuff isn't rocket science.

It leaves only one explanation. Rockstar, as @oldirtybearon said, intended it to be this way. In which case, great! They can be the guys who made an incredibly lively, fun playground and then intentionally hobbled it in the name of some perverse concept of putting in work and I'll be the guy calling them idiots for doing so. The idea is to have fun playing games, right? Fun's the goal?

GTA Online: Very ironically named.

I love how people in this thread, like many in politics, feel that changing your mind on a subject is a weakness, or falsehood rather than the sign of an emotionally mature adult who can take a step back and reconsider their position. No sir, in the land of game virgins no one but shrill, hardline ideologues have valid points of view.

Oh, oh! Next can we talk about how a woman expressing a point of view contrary to yours is impinging on your rights as a man?!

Fucking grow up.

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I didn't mean say you are a hateful virgin, there's no way I could possibly know that. I meant to say you soundlike one. You have the right to say whatever you'd like... thinly veiled vitriol, whatever. I have the right to call you a misogynist for doing so.

This thread, like large swaths of the internet, prominently features the kind of vitriolic misogyny that suggests very limited interaction with women... virginal revenge hate.

Also, we Americans are very fond of trumpeting how much we "love our country", but when it really comes down to it we are a miserable, selfish lot as a whole.

@rorie: Thank you, sir! Your workaround works. Keep up the good work, duder!