To be fair, the author mentions that they're discussing death for PvE content: > And more specifically, let's talk about losing in a PvE game, either solo or c

To be fair, the author mentions that they're discussing death for PvE content: > And more specifically, let's talk about losing in a PvE game, either solo or cooperative. And through that lens, the death system for WoW is pretty lame. But I'd beg to differ for PvP or RPPv(E|P). The run-back system allows people to camp your corpse. This would cause you to request help from your guild or hop on an alt and get help in trade chat. Now you have an overworld faction battle going on. For RP, it becomes an RP element.