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

[Firon]

They do. They want to pull in non FF fans as well, the fans used to super easy games with occasional hard encounters that you do only once.

The quickest turnoff to a casual player is something being hard/too hard or taking longer than 30 minutes to complete and SE wants to avoid alienating anyone because people WILL COMPLAIN if the content isn't accessible to their level 20 just like it is to their 50.



Yes, Japan also doesn't release tougher RPGs out to the west because it doesn't mesh well with western gamers, i.e some RPGs have permanent death, something western gamers would bitch about heavily, especially in the early days, i.e:

"I put all this work into this character and s/he is completely gone?! HORRIBLE GAME DESIGN RABBLE RABBLE"

Thus word of mouth and lower overall sales they may as well not have localized it.

Take it you never played fire emblem or any american rpgs cause a ton of them have hardcore mode I.E Torchlight 2.

Also a great deal of the population never beat garuda.... or Darnus normal or hard. If garuda/darnus is any indication how to content s gonna look i'm happy it can only get better.