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I don't think there's a place for non-changeable difficulty settings in FromSoft games, imo. In any game, for that matter. It just artificially keeps more people from playing your games and makes them less accessible to people who are struggling for whatever reason that may be.
I get the "vision™" argument in that developers create games as they want them to exist and don't want to dilute it. However, I think it's a very narrow-minded view to have nowadays. Accessibility options for games are quite common too after all
As someone who can't get into games like that, I disagree. Not every piece of media has to be made with me in mind and I don't want developers to compromise to make me happy at the expense of their vision
They're not compromising anything, only adding an option for people who don't enjoy difficult games. Want it hard? Don't play easy mode.
It'd be a compromise of time and energy. Adding and tuning difficulties takes away from development they actually want to do.
I think it's a very entitled stance to expect it.
Considering you can download trainers that make their games easier by just changing code values, no, it doesn't need to be. And while that's fine for PC, they can't be used on console games.
Entitled to expect it, yes. Entitled to suggest they should do it, no.
There's a pretty big difference between a difficulty setting and a cheat trainer...balancing is not trivial. There's mechanics they'd likely have to change, too.
I was referring to the OC saying there's no place for fixed difficulty (they expect it)
I was able to play and enjoy the game just with changed values, no balancing or mechanic changes needed. Clearly that's not the reason they don't do it.