Does Easy Mode Make You Less a Gamer?

It’s not just the players who trivialize the efforts of anyone who dares to choose Easy Mode — game developers share plenty of the blame. The name itself has some pretty negative connotations to start with. It’s almost as if we’re being told, “Listen, this is as low as we can go. If you can’t make it through with all these handicaps we’re throwing you, then you should probably just go live in a cave and play games with sticks and rocks, because you probably shouldn’t be handling electronics. You could hurt yourself.”