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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheLe" data-source="post: 4859649" data-attributes="member: 3981">Former Blizzard programmer Bill Roper gave an interview a few years ago that captured this very answer.He said that he was playing Everquest (original) and fought a very hard monster. He was full of potions but it was taking over 15 minutes. He decided to leave for dinner so he did so. He came back much later and found out he was dead.However, he wasn't killed by the monster. Nope. He died because his online character didn't eat.And those are the kind of mundane things that Blizzard tried to eliminate so that players can simply have fun. He said that the game was built around the idea that you could log in 20 minutes every day and still have fun, rather than being forced to be on 2 hours a day like other games.Which is also why the death/penalty system is so favorable in World of Warcraft. They don't want it to frustrate players. (In Everquest 2 it's terrible -- if your party teammate dies, EVERYONE gets a penalty).-The Le</blockquote>