Re:For story to 'happen' characters have to die... (Score 1)

Aristotle's Poetic's right ? Sympathetic characters have to be done away with in order to create interest from the audience ? The purging of human pathos via the externalization of the real forms of drama in human life. Yes the MMORPGs' are lacking this dimension, but I question whether or not the medium lends itself to any kind of meaningful dramatic narrative. The chorus of consumer idiots always present, tends to muck up any attempts to deliver dramatic content.