On a bit different topic...
What you say is very true but I find that amazing, in an essence all "hard-core" sims I can think off could be dumbed down practically to the arcade shooters level.
I can't think of any game aside maybe Falcon4(for which I really can't remember) that couldn't be set to have "win all" button. And all that most usually with like 3-4 options - easy, medium, hard, uber
Yet I do have to agree with your point, I just find it funny if not completely insane that people actually dumped those games just because they didn't like how they play on "Hard".
If same philosophy would be applied to all games on the market, would any genre ever survive?
I mean to be honest, flight sims are just about the only games I can play on hard(highest difficulty) settings and that's just the FM part, avionics wise LockOn is the top of the stuff I'm willing to spend time to learn...more than that and you loose me lol
Most(All actually, but just in case) games aside flight sims I play it's on medium and sometimes even on easy ( ) settings, should I be ashamed of that? Is my manhood at lower level or what?
Yeah well maybe this rant of mine is for another topic, but it just spiked my eye right now