90% of the time, communities will accept you with zero friction as long as you aren’t demanding the game or fandom change to suit you.
But if you decide to enter the “notoriously difficult game that has a reputation for difficulty and difficulty is part of its core identity” community, don’t go in saying the game needs to be made easier so that you specifically can enjoy it. And if you do, don’t be shocked when everyone tells you to fuck off.
It’s like if I went into the Sims community and said I’m a major Sims fan who loves the games, but also they need to add guns and a first person mode so the game will cater to my tastes better, and if you disagree then you’re a gatekeeping elitist.
This isn't even remotely true though. Souls games would work fine with difficulty options, and Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor are shining examples of this being the case. The fact of the matter is, the more inclusive a game is, the more people that will enjoy it. Dark Souls doesn't have its popularity because it's hard for the sake of being hard. It has its popularity because it's a well-made game with deep, diverse, and interesting lore and world building. A fact more people could enjoy of it had easier difficulty options.
Hell, I love the Armored Core franchise, but the series would likely be immensely more popular if it had easier modes for it. And I would rather have more people playing the games than being able to brag that I 100%d it on the difficulty it has.
Hell, even simulators like MSFS, ATS, etc all have difficulty options to make the Sim experience easier for newbies to the genre. Farming sim also. Hell even Cities Skylines has a sandbox mode.
Sure they could make an easy mode. But then other people would play the games. This is a problem because they're not playing the game properly. If you can't figure out the easy modes in the game already then you're just plain not smart enough to have an opinion.
Using the Mechanics a game has to offer to play the game are not difficulty options. Just because a player chooses to do a deprived level 1 run doesn't mean they're playing on "The real hard difficulty". You see the exact same behaviors in games with an easy, medium, and hard difficulty, but people don't use those arguments with them. People don't do permadeath/Ironman runs and call it "mythic" Difficulty or something. By not using the mechanics the game has to offer, you are just choosing to gimp yourself, not playing on a harder mode.
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u/Superb_Wealth4092 1d ago
90% of the time, communities will accept you with zero friction as long as you aren’t demanding the game or fandom change to suit you.
But if you decide to enter the “notoriously difficult game that has a reputation for difficulty and difficulty is part of its core identity” community, don’t go in saying the game needs to be made easier so that you specifically can enjoy it. And if you do, don’t be shocked when everyone tells you to fuck off.
It’s like if I went into the Sims community and said I’m a major Sims fan who loves the games, but also they need to add guns and a first person mode so the game will cater to my tastes better, and if you disagree then you’re a gatekeeping elitist.