"You Will Die" Difficulty... Can I Have It?

[Valmonte]

adding difficulty sliders is only going to serve to fraction the already fractured player base it going to be a virtual war ground of the vetrans cutting off and disowning casuals.

if someones adds me to a party and says "oh we suck balls" or "we're to stupid to learn a simple 5 stage fight" so we're going to run it easy mode. im droping party and assuming the above if i see any thing with easy mode engaged.

[Orophin]

Oh there's a reason to make content for less then 1% of the player base. It gives casual players something they can try to work for but never achieve so they can feel like they are never done because they have not beat all the raid bosses on hard mode and do not have the best gear. Less then 0.1% of the WoW playerbase can beat Hard mode raids on current tier. Its often the hard core less then 1% that make a bunch of videos and stuff of your game which is basically a bunch of free advertising.

It's the carrot on a stick that you can never reach that keeps people playing.

That seems like a pretty flawed argument. I can't see most people willingly throwing themselves at something that they know they not capable of completing because it's the only thing left to do.

I never had the opportunity of playing with people in WoW that could clear hard mode content, so guess what I did? I completed the normal mode stuff and eventually stopped playing when I ran out of stuff to do.