Originally Posted by
Saladfork
The issue is that a lot of people do nothing but PvP. We are already poor, I can hardly pay for my wife and my son... my son planned on becoming a wizard of the Kirin Tor, but his ol' pappy couldn't pay for his tuition because I decided to get epic flying. I almost had to foreclose my garrison. Imagine what my life would be like if little old me went and lost a fortune through PvP. Think of the children.
But on a serious note, the main issue I can think of is that it encourages people to leave the battleground when it goes awry. Graveyard camping pretty much always happens in WSG nowadays, and people would perpetually leave just to prevent themselves from losing unnecessary gold. I think it would be cool to place more importance on death, but I think gold loss would negatively impact casual play and discourage people from playing PvP at all. I'd rather have a bg centered around living and call it a day (similar to the way arenas work).