Aside from the fact that games are not supposed to be easy, advocacy for easy modes in games doesn’t take into account that the biggest and most important part of a game is not the cutscenes or the graphics or the artwork or the QoL: it’s the gameplay. - ThreadSky

unclimainfame.bsky.social • 48 days ago

Aside from the fact that games are not supposed to be easy, advocacy for easy modes in games doesn’t take into account that the biggest and most important part of a game is not the cutscenes or the graphics or the artwork or the QoL: it’s the gameplay.

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unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

You could play Mario with a dot jumping on a line and it would be the same game. Mario saying Woohoo and Mamma Mia is not the game, Mario jumping with that precise amount of pixels, momentum, control, IS the game. So when you’re advocating for easy modes, you’re advocating to CHANGE the games

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

And that’s problematic for 2 main reasons: first of all, dedicated communities of people that love a game, well, they love the game in that state, and you want to change it for them because YOU can’t enjoy it in that form. Reason n2 is that companies listen to this kind of feedback

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

Capitalism means that more sales are always better, even if you have to change what you’re selling. And a dedicated fan will still buy the game, even if it’s worse than it used to be, because as long as they don’t fuck it up TOO MUCH fans can take a lot of mistreatment

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

And companies know this, so they will push changes even if they know it’s gonna compromise the standard they held until that point, just so that they can access a new playerbase. There’s countless examples of this:

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

Final Fantasy XIV dumbed down every mechanic in the game, made new game modes to make sure less proficient players could get to see the cutscenes and get the glamours, and overall stopped pushing for more. The game is now overrun by people that use it as second life and just go clubbing

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

And don’t get me wrong, good for them. Erpers gotta erp. But they took the game out of the game. It made me stop caring about the game altogether. It ruined the game for me.

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