Heck, that's the kind of thing that could get me to quit a game permanently.

I'll never understand why such a thing as EXP loss needs to be a thing. How on earth does that motivate anyone to continue playing? Sure, I don't think having some little penalty such as equipment durability damage and/or money loss is a big deal, but having to fight back for EXP lost just feels really demotivating to me.

Offhand, there need to be more MMOs with cute fluffy anthropomorphic animals as playable character races. Too many of them just seem to be humanoids and more humanoids and nothing fun, cute, or original.