Originally Posted by Imora DalSyn
Why yes, let's blame the developers for an opinion.

I can't even get out of the nautiloid on tactician. Does that mean it's too hard? No? Then why do you think they're going to add new difficulties for you?

First, I have a very hard time believing that you are telling me the truth here. The intro, regardless of difficulty, is extremely forgiving and straightforward.

Second, this is *not a statement* that everyone should be playing at tactician or something. If you find balanced or story mode challenging, that's fine. If you find them *too challenging* that's fine. Everyone is at a different level of familiarity with the genre and its conventions. I wouldn't complain if you were asking for an even easier mode than story mode.

But look around. This is not merely an individual's "opinion" or something. A *lot of people* are put off by the lack of difficulty. In fact, I think that this proportion of people will only grow upon more and more playthroughs. Your first playthrough with this game, you might be unfamiliar enough that you want story mode. Second playthrough, maybe you'd enjoy balanced. Third playthrough, maybe you'll have fun minmaxing in balanced, now that you understand the system well enough. But eventually people will get to the point that they want to choose tactician and they will realize that hey, wow, it's really not very difficult at all, especially once you get past the first few levels. And that is explicitly because of the powercreep Larian themselves inserted into the game. And yes, they are to 'blame' for poor design decisions like the absurd itemization this game has and the effects that has on the gameplay.

I honestly don't know what the point of what you're saying is. If you are unfamiliar enough with the systems that the game's difficulty is still challenging enough for you, that's fine. But nothing about that requires you to come into threads of people who are currently dissatisfied with the difficulty and white knight on behalf of the developers. I mean, could you have some empathy for people who are not in the same position as you? A lot of people paid good money for this game and are currently really hampered in their enjoyment of it by the fact that its current highest difficulty is not actually that difficult. And yes, I can tell you, from familiarity with the genre - BG3 *really stands out* in how easy its highest difficulty setting is.