Death In Diablo 3

[Spitfire]

Bashiok has answered a question relating to how deaths will be handled in Diablo 3

We had a checkpoint system in the BlizzCon demo we showed, where you would die and pop back up at the last chekpoint you came across. Some of that was for the convenience of the demo, but we do like the checkpoint system and intend to carry that forward in the same or similar form. We're not looking toward corpse retrieval currently.

Any death system we do have needs to allow players to get back into the action quickly, but not be so meaningless that you're just flinging your corpse against a wall of monsters over and over until you finally get through.

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[Nethran]

No corpse retrieval!? THAT'S AWESOME!!!! You can do Hell Cows without having to quit out if it gets too crazy!

[Replenish]

haha yeh, hate it when that happens. also when doing baal and so many soul things

[Spitfire]

It would be a welcome change

[FrogMan]

Unless you were to over powered and never died anyway, but for single player it great.

[Aka Gambit]

Corpse retrieval was a pain in the butt. I hated that if you went too far in or the mobs surrounded you when you died then you never could get your money back, and you could not get your body unless you restarted the game, I hated that.

[///Reaper\\\]

Corpse Retrieval may have been annoying and somewhat pain in the @$$ but if they take that away then what are they going to do to make it so that dieing has actual consequences