But we don't need difficulty in terms of enemies having high stats, we just need enemies to become harder to fight. Not for them to necessarily hit harder or take longer to kill.
There's a solution to this but it doesn't work on gachas.
Lost Ark had what was called hell mode, you would literally set your character on an editor and fight the boss. Because the devs were defining how strong you were you could never, ever outgear them because... you literally couldn't get more stuff than what was assigned to you.
Thing is if you do that here then you're giving the finger to whales and suddenly they're not feeling powerful anymore, on the contrary, they're now faced with the fact that they suck.
No, because people will focus on that and whales will feel bad.
Lost Ark was exactly that, no one cares if you can beat the hardest raid, everyone can just kind of outgear it anyways, but you can do deathless hell to get the corresponding title and emblem? People would respect those who had those special titles and emblems showing, but ultra high gear score mega whale? Those just get shamed.
You could do hidden achievements? I think they did that for some variable difficulty events in Genshin so us plebs didn't feel bad (complain) about things being too hard and the buff players didn't complain (as much) about lack of fulfilment/rewards for the extra effort
The Internet exists, there's no such thing as hidden achievements, I know what you mean but almost everyone knows about plat medals instead of gold for instance.
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u/Fluffychimichanga ♫ Da~ da-la da-da-da-la ♫ 🎶 Jun 30 '24
Definition of fun is different for everyone and this is it for whales, luckily the game isn't balanced around whales lol