Originally posted by Sunny:

Anyone bothered by the adding of difficulty sliders cares way too much about how other people play games. Play it on default difficulty and mind your own business.

This is basically my opinion about it. I truly don't understand the mindset that some people seem to have where if it is allowed to be easy for others then the challenge is invalidated for them somehow. It doesn't make any logical sense to me. As long as the difficulty is still there, then the experience is exactly the same if you want it to be. In fact, part of what the sliders are supposed to accomplish is to make the game even harder!

Now that said, someone in another thread mentioned that it could effect the communitys sense of comraderie and that I can understand as a negative side effect. I don't think it outweighs the positives, but its a factor.