-valar- wrote:
MagicalReing7913 wrote:
-Allows people from different ability levels to still play together.
Or does it? You would not be playing the same map. - but then again.. merely having the option may not do any harm
I feel the same about this. It's not really "playing together" anymore, since you'd only be playing against those people who chose the same difficulty as you.
There's 3 major concerns I have with this idea:
1) This option is kind of pointless. All it does is divide the players in one room according to difficulties, i.e. "who plays against whom". The exact same effect can be reached by just opening a room with [Easy and Normal only] or something in the name – stronger players will stay out (or put on mods) while the weaker ones can still enjoy their game.
2) Having a seperate, dedicated option like that might discourage players from trying to get better. Instead, they might try out harder difficulties once or twice, get last place and just "retreat" to easier diffs again (this already happens anyways, but adding this distinctive option definitely won't make it better).
3) It segments the playing community further. We already have rooms dedicated to different difficulties, why have rooms that themselves are again segmented into different difficulty classes?
I thought the inclusion of the "Free Mods" option was really brilliant, but this just seems unnecessary afterwards.