The people playing on easy don’t get angry when they’re called easy-goers, this is not about their ego for them.
But the “I’m the most manly man of them all, I only play on the hardest difficulty!”-types will instantly have their overinflated egos implode when you call them out like that. And you’ll have your game shitstormed by incels.
True true. You definitely get a relaxed fanbase with a good ability to take some irony and self-mockery like that. You just also will always have an army of haters turn up wherever someone expresses personal joy in your game online.
The thing is this:
The people playing on easy don’t get angry when they’re called easy-goers, this is not about their ego for them.
But the “I’m the most manly man of them all, I only play on the hardest difficulty!”-types will instantly have their overinflated egos implode when you call them out like that. And you’ll have your game shitstormed by incels.
It’s called cultivating a less toxic audience
True true. You definitely get a relaxed fanbase with a good ability to take some irony and self-mockery like that. You just also will always have an army of haters turn up wherever someone expresses personal joy in your game online.
They would be better off not judging people for any selected difficulty then.
Its motivation to prove the game wrong; plow your girlfriend AND play on the hardest difficulty.
I play on easy so I have more time to be sad about being single
Give it a couple of weeks and they’ll be distracted by some movie with a woman lead in it, and it will all blow over.
True, just cast Lupita Nyong’o in any movie and they’ll forget all about the game.
Don’t think I’d cater to incels.