Porcupine_I on 20 April 2014
Because the developers want their games to appeal to a wide demographic.
And believe it or not, a lot of people play games to have fun and relax.
They don't want the frustrating experience of dying over and over until they mastered a level just to get to an even harder one.
Call them casuals, but they made the industry as big as it is today.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
