Originally posted by Nerevar:

sliders are a TERRIBLE idea. may aswell remove all difficulty then. no thanks to forced casulization. not all games need to be made for everyone. common misconception of modern age.

difficulty settings being added POST EA is kind of difficult for a game where skills take a longass time to level.... this would FORCE restart of the character in essence. not a good solution either. this game was clearly designed with ONE difficulty in mind. you can see this in every system in the game. changing that later would be like adding difficulty levels to dork souls nowadays. it... just wouldnt work out well at all.

this is something a dev needs to decide BEFORE releaseing a game to public. especially games which can go on for such a long time. shorter quicker games can change such stuff later on compared.

the better method would be to provide more gear and upgrade options. so players can power themselfs up more or prepare more to overcome a challenge.

HOW DARE YOU take Lord Nerevar's name when you have such plebian opinions.

The great thing about options is you don't have to use em. They're optional. This isn't Dark Souls. The dev's lost the right to claims of artistic purity when they started mugging other games for mechanics and loose change. The game is in early access, so that means we're all a bunch of suckers who paid full price to play test the game. That means if any of us see a problem then we can say something an hope it gets fixed. I don't have high hopes, but you miss every shot you don't take.

And in case you forgot, Morrowind has a difficulty slider.