Request for Super Easy difficulty

[Katryn]

The problem I see with this, and I say this as someone who can have trouble with the game sometimes, is that it would open the risk that people who played easy mode and people who have played harder mode could still get partied together in the future.

If easy mode does not actually teach the fundamentals of the game properly and has its own separate set of expectations from the game as a whole, it could unintentionally provide a means of griefing the community at large. The challenge of various encounters throughout the game, most notably Shinryu at the end of SB, works as a gating system to try and ensure a base level of competence among the playerbase. Unless this was either on its own isolated server or an alternative offline / limited player mode of the game it would jeopardize that balance.

I use easy modes in the vast majority of the offline titles I play. I certainly understand that they have their uses. But as long as this is a multiplayer game, there has to be a cut off point, a bottom line at which Gandalf raises his staff and tell you, "You shall not pass!" if your group just isn't ready for whatever reason. Otherwise you get a flood of ill-prepared players entering content where they don't belong and it causes trouble for the community as a whole.