Kaputz

Your Gold Sink is online and waiting. Not a single pm yet, I'm disappointed. I've been waiting all day for someone to sink their gold into me (sounds deeply wrong I know)

Hey Industrial, I think the point is people should be offered the choice. Those that are used to WASD, and let's face it most PC games use these controls, either need to learn to adapt or will refuse to do so and simply quit.

I too am like you, I can play as-is, but WASD would undoubtedly be preferable (to go hand-in-hand with keybind options of course   )

It would be interesting if you retained your skills and crafting levels, but you just lost your gear, gold and character levels. That said, with only 100-200 players playing at any given time, I doubt there is a population for another mode. In fact, they should really just have 1 server at this point.

I honestly believe people would be surprised by the level of hype/interest in this that it would only help to boost numbers significantly.

As far as how it's implemented there's so many options. One to consider would be along the lines of POE in which on death you would be 'relegated' to a regular server.

The level of competition/ladders is a huge draw and motivation for a lot of people to play online games. I'd even suggest that within hardcore no 'boosting' items be purchasable only vanity, just to add to the competitive nature of it. 

I have to disagree guys. 

I appreciate that a client-based game would have to come first to diminish potential death-by-java, but I feel this game is very much suitable to this mode of play.

I agree that concentrating on the current game/ruleset and optimizing, as the Devs are doing with regular updates,  should be priority but I'd like to see hardcore somewhere down the line. 

I'm online right now *cough*