"The vast majority of players do it for the rewards"

[TaleraRistain]

If this is true, then how come the vast majority of the replies to this thread will be about people who do difficult content just for fun?

Because they're lying to themselves. How many times has harder 4 man content come up on the boards because people swore up and down they wanted harder content because the casual content puts them to sleep? And now they have it, but many of those same people are dissatisfied with the rewards. It's never been about the challenge. I've always had much more respect for anyone who was like "Yeah I want harder content and I'll do it if it has good rewards" because they're not trying to dress it up as anything but what it is.

[drtasteyummy]

We do things every day for rewards that doesn't mean difficulty can't be fun. You wake every day for your work to get paid, doesn't mean you can't enjoy your work, if you go to the gym you do it to look good but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy the burning likewise nobody goes to work for free even if it's fun the same as nobody works out just for the burning sensation. The issue appears because it's doom loop between casual vs tryhard mentality.

Give out good rewards for hard content and casuals will complain that the game is doing toxic gating which they're unable to reach
Give out useless rewards for hard content and tryhards will complain that the game offers them no payout