Will Ashes really be a revolution?

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You said it yourself, it's the players that are ruining the games. So what exactly do you expect Intrepid to do differently? Do you want them to constantly nerf every single random class that some random dude on the internet said was OP? Cause that would be as stupid as whatever bliz/riot did in the past.

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No difficulty will be high enough to stop those organized groups from speedrunning the game. And even if there is such a difficulty - it would push away literally 99% of players, because they'd be unable to even play the game with that kind of difficulty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg

It will be played!

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But that applies to everyone, so that's beside the point. Some form of gameplay difficulty won't affect everyone, because some people will still breeze through it, while others won't even be able to touch it. That's what I meant. And the harder you make your game - the more people won't be able to play it.

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From what I've heard from casuals, it's not about ease or difficulty of content. It's about how fun doing that content is. Yes, some people will derive fun from purely the difficulty of the content, but majority couldn't care less about that. As was shown by WoW's popularity or by FF14's, or by Genshin's. The game just has to be fun.