Quote Originally Posted by Nobuyuki_Sanada View Post
No that is incorrect, SE has even said so. Players are circumventing difficulty by using mods, meaning if the design teams wants to make truly difficult content they would need to account for players having mods making the game easier. They obviously dont want to do this as it would force players who dont use mods to get them to complete content. This is why WoW is the way it is. They allowed mods, people got used to playing with them, and now to make challenging content they have to consider them or the content they create will be too easy.

If anything, the reverse is happening. I've seen many people criticizing TOP because the really high number of priority mechanics greatly encourage the use of auto-markers in environments where voice chat isn't an option. And the high difficulty of the content so close to DSR hasn't been exactly welcome either, as many hoped it would be closer to TEA's difficulty and citing P1 as being extremely exhausting rather than fun.