Nobody is claiming that someone will be persuaded to commit suicide because of a game.
The point is, it would be illogical to echo "You scored a touchdown!" each time you fragged someone because this game has nothing to do with [American]football. Therefore it makes sense to include the phrase "You fragged x" even though it implies the loss of a life at the hands of another person because that is the objective of the game. As long as you are supposed to kill other players it makes sense to leave that phrase.
But suiciding in this game need not be suiciding. Suiciding is not the objective; it will not harm the logic of the game to change the suicide action to a respawn action with the penalty of one death.
The difficulty of making this change is how do you handle genuine, accidental suicides via grenade?
Edit: "You gibbed yourself" is a good middle ground. It's not perfect but better than the current solution.
The point is, it would be illogical to echo "You scored a touchdown!" each time you fragged someone because this game has nothing to do with [American]football. Therefore it makes sense to include the phrase "You fragged x" even though it implies the loss of a life at the hands of another person because that is the objective of the game. As long as you are supposed to kill other players it makes sense to leave that phrase.
But suiciding in this game need not be suiciding. Suiciding is not the objective; it will not harm the logic of the game to change the suicide action to a respawn action with the penalty of one death.
The difficulty of making this change is how do you handle genuine, accidental suicides via grenade?
Edit: "You gibbed yourself" is a good middle ground. It's not perfect but better than the current solution.