Now dont get me wrong, I'm not someone who always plays games on easy. Although I'm a casual gamer, I normally play on medium to high difficulty. However I'm sure we all know someone who constantly plays the same campaign time after time, with the difficulty as low as it can go, or with enemy bots as dumb as a doorknob. Until today, I would usually give them a piece of my mind and try to convince them to leave their comfort bubble known as 'easy'. But after a short investigation into the matter, I think I see where they are coming from.

Why do we play games? To eventually be the strongest, the fastest, the best, and to have fun. Now let's start to break it down. Everyone wants to feel like an unstoppable beast/hero/manbearpig when playing, right? You wanna charge through all of your enemies at lightning speeds, and demolish all in your way... because it's fun. I think you see where I'm going with this. When people start on easy, they are instantly shot into a world of false reality, and they believe they are the greatest thing since videogame porn. From the very beginning, they can take down anyone and feel like a god, without even having to train for it. Let's take this a little deeper, shall we?

When playing something like an MMORPG, you level, and therefore can fight higher level monsters. Most of the time, people are going into territory with monsters they can just defeat, and half of their health is lost in a single battle. Every now and then however, you'll see some level 20 in a level 10 area. Don't know what they are doing there? You do now. Because it's easy! They can tear through mobs of those monsters without a scratch on them! If they are deluded and nerdy enough, they can feel like king of the world. They wouldn't do it because it's boring for them, now would they? They obviously think it's fun. And that's what we're all out to do, yeah?

Now let's have another look at the hardcore difficulty players. If you can fly through games on insane mode and you're having fun, great! But I'm also certain that there has been one point in our videogaming careers where that last death just didn't sit right with you, and some blood began to boil, or your tv got a controller imprinted on the screen. If you're not having fun, bump it down a notch! It's ok! Nothing bad will happen. Infact, you'll find yourself harder, better, faster and stronger than ever before! And most importantly you'll be enjoying yourself, which is the primary goal of games, isn't it?

To sum up, I'm not saying play all games on easy. I sure don't. But if you know someone who does, take into consideration what i've written here. Perhapse they were bullied as a child, and need to create a Barbarian Warrior and kill level 1 bears to deal with it. Or maybe they just wanna go crazy, rape and pillage, and most importantly; have a bit of fun.