This reminds me of the Gamasutra article about Spyro the Dragon a few years back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1031510 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

This reminds me of the Gamasutra article about Spyro the Dragon a few years back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1031510 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1031510 Randomly removing essential game items required for progression. We'll that's just cruel :-)