Is the death penalty too harsh in World of Warcraft? Definitely, all of these penalties had one theme in common: time. They all make you spend more time in the game for your mistake. Sometimes the XP loss would take more than an hour to get back. If you lost all of your gear then you're looking at a long time before you get all of it back, especially if any of it is rare. In EverQuest you could lose an entire week of gameplay by one single death if you fell into a dungeon and were unable to run to your corpse.So, looking at it, the Allods penalty isn't nearly as harsh.

Some player like the WoW death system. When theys started playing MUDs years ago and the death penalties were pretty harsh.They think they never seemed to be able to get anywhere, especially when the servers were constantly going down and when you left town there was no option to turn off PvP. There are one particularly memorable death is thief had just stolen a bag from another player and had run off with it.