I played for 2 hours and died pretty rarely.
by the nature of how the game works it would be very difficult to die a lot in 2 hours!
Only bad players hide around though and never see action. This game highly incentives risk taking if you want to win, and your early game playing should focus more on landing in high density areas like the school and learning how to fight, or else you'll never be able to take the shots to win in the end game.
for a game that's sold over 10 million copies already sure are a lot of b8ers who haven't played it