No. Just no. Context matters. The OP makes it very clear that they’re discussing their personal preferences. You don’t get to yank out the last sentence and claim it says something else.

Please explain to me what kind of logic turns “asking for more options” into “gatekeeping”

God DAMN, Kotaku readers suck.

Wild to write four paragraphs of spittle-laced invective over your own conflation of two separate points and to then proceed to argue, somehow, that game developers are being FoRcEd By RoYaL dEcReE into making easy modes for all of those evil people who want to... experience their games.

Nobody is ever going to “force”…

I remember caring about difficulty settings and thinking adding an easy option to a Souls game was stupid. Then I realized the only idiot was me who cared if someone played on easy mode.

Now when I play a Soulslike I actively setup shop outside boss rooms and coop people through them. If they won’t add a proper easy…

Exactly, I appreciate and enjoy the experiences others have gotten from this. It just didn’t pan out that way for me. But damnit. Im gonna live vicariously through those it did.   

Yeah I dunno what to tell you. I dont have a lot of spare time. I felt I spent more time climbing hills to only find another hill to climb. The ratio of time it took to find the puzzle and time it took to figure it out was way off and I rather of spent my time actually doing something. 

To me BOTW is like EVE online. I didnt and dont like playing it but I enjoy the stories that come out of it.

Andromeda wasn’t bad, just unfinished and even then - compared to how Cyberpunk2077 released - a masterpiece.

ME:A wasnt even a bad game, people were mostly just upset it wasnt the Mass Effect game that they wanted.  It was a good game, but not a good Mass Effect Game

This is the thing. It’s not a good game! Forget all the bugs, even if it had nothing “wrong” with it, it’s still not a good game!

Andromeda discourse was driven so much by bad faith bullshit (you get more clicks by dogpiling) and conflating PC glitchiness to consoles. It was by no means perfect, but I had a blast with it at launch on PS4.

I’m going through my backlog of games wrapping up my trophy completion for some last few I’m missing. Over the weekend I fired up Mass Effect Andromeda for that Insanity difficulty playthrough and it gotta say this Cyberpunk debacle has really made ME:A outrage look pretty tame by comparison.

“Just because this guy happens to disagree with some liberal causes absolutely does not mean he doesn’t love his LGBTQIA+ fans or that he supports all right-wing policy.”

This is the kinda shit that makes me hate Tesla. This is the kinda thing an idiot tech bro would brag about that has no practical purpose. You don’t need that kinda gaming horsepower for a cars navigation or sound system or even to run movies for the kids in back. Anything more is just silly. Plus even if your car…

I see you’ve discovered that you can make anything sound boring and stupid if you strip it down to just it’s most basic parts, and describe it in the least interesting way possible.

And nothing of value was lost!

Star Citizen is like Elon Musk: there’s obviously something wrong going on here, but an a fanatical online contingent will rake you over the coals for pointing it out.

I didn’t walk away liking this game much at all. I thought I would in the first few hours, but the narrative issues were too big for me to ignore. I only say that because as someone who isn’t a fan of the game, the amount of shit that is on the Playstation store when this isn’t is pretty damn ridiculous.

Dude who gives a fuck? You got a pink chair. Whoopie shit. Enjoy what you want. If you’re embarrassed at what other people think about what you have, don’t buy the stuff in the first place.