So I decided to install and play on a private server for Need for Speed World, a f2p game that I played for a time way back in the day and enjoyed my time with it back then. Apparently the server I had pick to visit my nostalgia was the wrong one, as the server runners had decided that they needed to make massive sweeping changes to the gameplay, especially for the cop chase parts of the game (admittedly they were pretty easy in vanilla).
So imagine my face when I go to do a pursuit/team escape with my racing car to break up the monotomy only to find out that the cops were made to be infinitely more bullshit, enough that it made me want to go on their discord and make a complaint that they ruined it. Then I found that someone else was making the same complaint, and the ‘devs’ of this server were just going “Lol that’s the point, you’re supposed to be a cheesedick, using the best car modded this exact way for the event 24/7, because we balanced it around you cheesedicking because the vanilla game was so easy. You’re just mad cause bad.” Okay, they weren’t saying that exactly, but you get the point.
Jesus christ man, I don’t get why when modders decide to go fix legit problems with a game they almost always end up thinking the lack of difficulty is an issue then proceed to overtune it to an absurd degree.
I don’t think it’s antisocial to publish something so members of a niche audience who would like it can play it.
The antisocial part was them reacting like that to OP’s complaint.
Can’t even discuss things, everything has to be a fight to put the other person down.
That doesn’t really look like your original statement, but regardless I think it’s very difficult to evaluate something like that when OP themselves adds:
Like, obviously “git gud” people exist and are antisocial shitbags, but so do people who get very offended at difficulty mods, as the post demonstrates regardless, and so when I see that admission I don’t definitely conclude that the devs did nothing wrong, but it really comes off like they said “you need to optimize to beat the mod” and OP felt attacked.