I want to experience the game more than I want to grind rupees. 

I don’t know how I feel about all this. On the one hand I feel like doing it because I just do not have the time to put into it like I had when Breath of the Wild came out. “Rupee & Item Easy Mode” doesn’t sound like a bad time. But then I also feel like why not just play the game very slowly and as it was intended to…

I like how people are saying “you have a choice”

Right. Just stop playing video games. Thank you for pointing out the obvious. If gas is too expensive, just stop driving. If you can’t afford rent, just live in the street. There’s always a choice!

Also, the default setting is already Off. You have to manually turn it on, intentionally.

Yeah this is dumb for multiple reasons.

Yeah I finally got convinced to update it and give it another try since OW1 was axed and yeesh it did not feel like a different game. It felt like the exact same game only discernibly worse in multiple ways. Gone was the clean UI, now there’s the in your face cluttered mess that seems to plague every live service…

It sounds like in this case though most people found the oiling system cumbersome and annoying so it was probably a good change.

“More importantly: Players should be able to play their game how they want,”

Time to drop this lovely proverb:

I have grown completely dead to the cries of “MUH EMMERSIOOOONN!!!”. They cry because having auto oil breaks immersion, but act like having to stop go through 2 menu screens and dig through a horribly sorted inventory screen (that you have no control over) to find the correct oil doesn’t immediately take you out of…

Auto-Oiling improves my immersion tbh, like you go around going through gathering this knowledge, less busy work seems a massive plus.

some people just really like oiling their sword

It’s cute that you think such pedantry is necessary or helpful. Meanwhile, in Japan, Dragon Age: Absolution is anime. Castlevania? Anime. King of the Hill? Oh you better believe it’s anime.

This 100%. Playing BOTW again on a very high end PC two years ago was an amazing experience. We were fortunate enough to have CEMU for BOTW, with some time we should get there with Switch emu.

“Link, our gender-fluid Hero of the Wild”

I feel like BOTW’s open world hype is forgetting that open world non-linear adventures were already an established genre. I think the community at large forgets that Elder Scrolls games have been doing it for a long time already. Even before Skyrim, the Elder Scrolls were sending players off into massive sandbox…

(could also be a lot of places in Australia have perfectly fine and functional public transport, which is convenient to use and a lot cheaper than paying for parking)

Unfortunately there’s a lot of people, probably on this very site, who will proudly claim that they don’t play games for the story.

Sadly not surprising. People have a very skewed view of the relative difficulty of any task they may have a passing familiarity with.