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Oh dude ... I don't know how to tell you this but at this point you're just wrong. Sorry to be the one to break it to you.

They were not detailed arguments at all. You just “feel” like game difficulty has to be this magic thing that can’t possibly have settings without compromising your dream experience.

I've broken it down several times in this topic already, but sure, let's do it once more. Difficulty is a complex equation that is the result of various components like level architecture, encounter design, world puzzles, and complex stat curves across enemies, equipment, and player characters in addition to intricate boss fight routines with varied movesets. There's no "slider" here. Everyone keeps mentioning these mythical sliders and THAT is the magical thinking here. That there is a simple way to adjust the game to Easy that adjusts all those other variables.

In addition to this if you were to implement sliders for each one of those features separately (neverminding how you'd do something like level architecture) what you end up takes both additional developer time and may not be as good. The fine tunings don't fit together as nicely; it's the difference between a model kit you buy and assembly yourself vs. one that comes premade form the manufacturer. There are different tolerances here and I think you need to get some dev perspective on this at this point.

People are 100% reasonable and right to complain about games doing things they don’t like here, on a forum for discussing games.

Here is criticism: "I do not like this game because I find it too difficult." Here is not criticism: "This is a bad game because the developer did not make more effort to cater to the wide range of entirely subjective opinions on what difficulty is."

I hate to rely on arguments from popularity but when the dev of the game itself says "naw" and the game is so popular it literally spawns its own subgenre with millions of adoring fans and you're trying to armchair unnecessary solutions to things people don't think are problems, I ask again who is being selfish. This game ain't for you, dawg.

From what you’re suggesting, you basically think all the games you like should get about half the sales numbers they are getting because anyone who doesn’t like any noteworthy aspect of the game clearly just isnt the intended audience and shouldn’t have bought it.

Miss me with that sales speak. Disgusting. We're talking art here. Gross.

This is the gatekeepy bullshit I am talking about.

I think you need to look up what gatekeeping is. At this point looking at your other responses in this topic I think you're kind of a troll? But I mean I don't care, I have fun talking about and critiquing the finer points of games online and then actually playing them. I think I'm gonna go beat Dark Souls again while you mald.

FINAL EDIT: Cheat. Just cheat. We've already established elsewhere in this topic that I and many others DON'T actually care about the "sanctity" of the game, that's a talking point people like you made up to throw around, mostly. Nobody cares. Get a cheat engine and double soul drops. Crank your stats. Enable one hit kills. Cheat. Don't care, cheat.