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Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty

Another article that highlighs inherent flaws in the American legal system. How can this potentially be an actual lawsuit? How can “journalists” even entertain reporting on this?

Honestly I’m just posting to laugh at my fellow lemmings responses and watch see how the plaintiff is roasted for not gitting gud.

But, there is a real conversation here around continued ignorance of game development and the value of difficult games as a value proposition. Afterall, the person attempting to sue from did choose to purchase the games willingly knowing they’re not for scrub casuals like themselves.

What do you all think, is difficulty gating content a real issue? Should dev’s have some kind of legal requirement to appease players that can spec a build properly? Is it Thursday and I’m just looking for some easy laughs at a morons expense?

Broken_Monitor ,

It’s not even that hard. I seriously was bracing for some ridiculous bullshit based on the response but I haven’t struggled at all through it. Sometimes I do hit a hard boss and explore to come back later, but nothing insurmountable. I still have yet to finish but Sekiro still makes this games seem like a walk in the park. Hell, all the Dark souls games are far harder too.

Katana314 ,

Given its open world nature, I would bet the difficulty of the game varies greatly depending on where someone randomly decides to explore.

And, any repeat attempts won’t reveal much because on a second go the player will have experience with systems that will keep them safe or at least better conditioned around their losses.

Broken_Monitor ,

I guess that’s the thing really, is all you gotta do is recognize you can go somewhere else. Come back and practice the hard part occasionally. Go find more scadu fragments, new weapons, spells, tools, experiment a little. Hell if you really need go respec and make a focused build. Or summon people to help you. There’s so many options, I hit some hard stuff but it never felt like a brick wall.

Katana314 ,

This once again tires back in with patience and recognizing which parts are hard by comparison.

“Time to try Elden Ring! Hm. This first area I’ve spent 20 minutes in is too hard. I’ll go somewhere else. Actually, this other area I spent half an hour in is also too hard. I’ll go somewhere else. Hmm…actually…”

Not to mention, understanding the stat systems enough to respec can be hard itself. And, summoning people to help you often means you’re not learning or engaging with the game mechanics yourself (or, getting slaughtered by invaders - patience again)

There’s genuine reasons why those things as a form of difficulty adaptation do not work well for everyone. People get an inconsistent and unreadable experience, and conclude simply “The game is too hard.” Often, that statement is made with incomplete information, but that’s what they’ve got from trying to learn it themselves. Obviously, if you look up walkthroughs it’s boringly easy and has no sense of discovery.

braindefragger ,

Source?

Angry_Autist ,

In America, you can sue anyone for literally anything.

Doesn’t mean you’ll win, but it’s basically a highly enshrined natural right that only the rich can make best use of.

dinckelman ,

A game that is designed to be difficult, turns out to be difficult. More at 11

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Git…

…it for PC and cheat. That’s what I did.

BruceTwarzen ,

If only they realised that no one cared that they beat the game with only a club without upgrading it.

Abnorc ,

I’m suing you for cheating.

samus12345 ,
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I’m countersuing for emotional distress due to a frivolous lawsuit.

echodot ,

The reason that they can be a lawsuit is you can sue for anything in the US, doesn’t mean that it has any merit to it, or the case will ever even be heard.

catloaf ,

You can file a suit against anyone for any reason. Garbage ones get thrown out pretty quick.

LostWanderer ,

It’s the oddest choice to sue FromSoftware because Elden Ring, a Souls-like which, is advertised to be a very difficult game. Personally, I stay away from Fromsoft games because of their difficulty, I play games for fun; any game that requires an extreme amount of skill right out off the bat is simply not it to me. I guess this person can waste their money doing whatever they’d like; I don’t see them having any hope of winning this frivolous lawsuit.

VizualWarrior ,

Very Onionesque.

Fo real tho, difficulty in some games is more of an add on than a core mechanic. FromSoft weave difficulty into the narrative of their games in a way that is just so deliciously painful. More please.

aciDC14 ,

I’ll get the popcorn…

josefo ,

I agree with the general sentiment of my fellow commenters, however, coffee is hot, and there are labels on the coffee stating that because of a lawsuit like this. What a interesting precedent to games will this set. How you put a disclaimer in a game stating it’s difficulty level? Compared to what?

Angry_Autist ,

Plaintiff will have to prove some form of legally enshrined harm has occurred.

I can’t imagine what kind of results from not winning due to difficulty that may be appealing to a judge as a form of ‘damage’.

josefo ,

Emotional trauma? Discrimination? Ableism? With this games accessibility has been the ongoing issue, they could argue around that.

Angry_Autist ,

Significant uptick in fools to block today on lemmy.

It feels like reddit 2015 up in here.

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