However here is the problem. The more that I think about it, the more I find reason to accept that, Yes it in fact DOES adversely effect me. It robs me of any sense of satisfaction or accomplishment I could derive from the game knowing that those accomplishments, really arent because anyone can do it if they just dial it down to their level.
In games nowadays, there is no incentive for the player to play on anything other than easy mode. Honestly If games that consistently presented players with challenges to overcome and not evolved into a rubbery safety coated blob of grey beating you over the helmeted head with the painfully obvious, walking you step by step guiding you every step of the way (even in lauded Sandbox games like Fallout for that matter) removing any possible danger posed by accidentally figuring something out without having to be told, If that type of game were a dime a dozen, absolutely, There would be no argument against allowing souls to try to expand its base by making it more accessible.
However, that is not the gaming landscape we live in. Souls specifically gained its notoriety BECAUSE of its punishing difficulty and the challenges it presented. Given that souls gained such note specifically BECAUSE it was a desired niche that had long been left unattended that it stepped in to sate. So yes, there is a world of difference between having an easy toggle switch and a bare minimum for entry. If someone else had to put forth a fraction of the effort that I did, to receive the same result, then it DOES in fact diminish the value of the effort I put forth and outright eliminates any possibility for sense of accomplishment and discourages me to ever bother trying harder. It is no less unreasonable than to try to expect people with Bachelors and Masters degrees to work as farm hands.
Ill finish this with a personalized example. In my first run through of Dark Souls, I heard a lot of clamor about people complaining about the early difficulty of Capra Demon. Now Souls is known for its "trial and error" approach to things like bosses. I can see where Capra would be a problem fending off multiple targets in a not only tight stairway area, but one that visibility is hindered by overgrowth. To me, in reading these mini fits people would throw about Capra brought massive joy and contentment to me, knowing that I put down Capra demon without first dying to it, all rather by accident, not expecting it to be behind the fog door. Without that commonly shared aggravation by having multiple people encounter the same difficulty, I would have never realized Capra was a problem for others, and I would not have found the satisfaction and sense of accomplishment from it that I did.
So that is why I have to take the hard unpopular stance. To remove a major contributing factor of what made a games popularity and leave those that made it popular BECAUSE of that fact with nothing in return to offset that loss, Or other alternatives to fill that void is not acceptable. To have a company do so leaves me with no choice to voice my contempt and dissatisfaction for such a decision by no longer supporting that product by refusing to purchase it, because they no longer produce what I wanted to play.
