I lack self control to resist the temptation so I demand that they aren't put in the games.

Just to pitch in something: wouldn't it also be "selfish" to demand the dev to put in more "features"(since options make it like its something that everyone would like and wouldn't harm the game in any way for others, which is not the case), when it is clearly that they don't want to, whatever the reason may be?

Or rather, since you are getting old and thus don't have the reflexes you claim you once had, you want those features in so that you(and emphasis on that) can enjoy them better, even against the wishes of the creator himself?(which admittedly have more right, and moral grounds, than you and me to do anything they want with their games)Wouldn't you say you are being as "selfish" as us, as you are claiming?

Do you even read? No you don't, you just repeat the same sentence ad nauseam.

SOME GAMES without an easy mode <> ALL GAMES without an easy mode.

What's hard to understand? Do you understand the difference between SOME and ALL? This is beyond me, in 2020 every single folk feels entiled to DEMAND that EVERY SINGLE GAME is made for him. 

It depends, when does it become ageism. Nobody seems to have an issues with color blind options or subtitles for the hard of hearing. Actually a lot seem to applaud accessibility options. Speed is one of them and will be more relevant as gamers get older.

And we have a lot of "color blind" options in game where colors are important, and subtitles when the sounds are important ....

Or, perhaps, I say perhaps, this isn't the case and you are again talking about games in general and missing the point. What's hard to understand in "GAMES IN GENERAL <> SOMES GAMES".

Oh and by the way, I am color blind.

Actually ageism isn't the right word, it's more like From software is aiming for elitism. I read their reasons again, why not to include difficulty levels and it very much comes down to targeting peer pressure to belong to the 'popular' crowd. Something I turned to gaming for to get away from that crap on the schoolyard. Yet here we are, putting it into gaming:

"We want everyone to feel that sense of accomplishment. We want everyone to feel elated and to join that discussion on the same level. We feel if there's different difficulties, that's going to segment and fragment the user base. People will have different experiences based on that [differing difficulty level]. This is something we take to heart when we design games. It's been the same way for previous titles and it's very much the same with Sekiro."

Nice way to spin it but "everyone" can never mean everyone due to how different people are. People will have different experiences based on static difficulty levels, my experience with Dark souls was very different from yours. And it has segmented and fragmented the user base. I have turned away from a series I used to love while you can't accept that adding difficulty levels would only broaden the appeal of the games. Well except for those that want to belong to the 'elite' club that don't want others to experience the games.

I'm just calling out From Software on their own rhetoric, causing this "just go play something else" attitude to enter gaming.

If you look at the amount of Souls-like games that are out there today, compared to when it was simply just Demon Souls, then yes, you could consider it a mini genre of it's own. There's a reason why people, even a storefront like Steam calls and has the tag "souls-like", rather than "crushingly difficult", because that doesn't roll off the tongue, nor sound like a fitting sub genre name.

I know you do not play these games, and neither do I, but it's not hard to see what they are and what's transpired since the first ever Souls game. 

There is no problem, but there is also no problem when a dev offers a differing difficulty mode, or when people simply mod one in themselves. Hell, I just posted about the devs behind Dying Light putting in an even easier option, years after the game's release, and that game is known and heavily implied to be a "survival" game, as in you fear for your life during the day and the night, yet they have added an option that does away with that very thing, and it isn't harming anyone in the slightest, because people that want to play things on a harder difficulty can simply choose that option, and those that don't can choose the latter.

Do you understand why we as a species try to make our lives a little easier, or does that not come natural to your line of thought?. Yes, the human race does love a few challenges here and there, but at the same time we also like to make things easier for ourselves, from understanding methods to general science, and obviously to games explaining mechanics and tutorials, that have evolved over time.

The thing is, is that those who do not want said game to be changed to suit others, is that they also want other games to be changed to suit them. We have those same people bickering about games being "watered down", and that they want them to stay stagnant and the same, or made more difficult, to which we end up seeing the excuse "game doesn't need to be for you, but I want it to be for me" being used. 

What's getting boring, is watching a minority whine about how they want games to suit their tastes over others, but claiming they aren't harming anyone themselves. It'd be less insulting if they weren't so self aware of their obnoxious elitist bs. 

I have every DS. I still need to find time to play Sekiro.

But, again, for the 1000th time, if only a handful of games are too difficult for you, this isn't a problem. This isn't about elitism, this is about a gaming experience. If you could understand that different gamers are expecting different things from different games, it would help a lot. This is getting boring:

-I don't like the difficulty in THAT game, NERF!

-You could simply play another game ...

-No I want to play THAT game and THAT game is too difficult for ME, NERF

-But why do you want to play THAT game? The difficulty is part of THAT game

-You are an spouting some obnoxious elitist bs. NERF THAT game for me!

Oh, and we don't harm ourselves, the challenge is part of what we like in games. I don't want to see EVERY SINGLE GAME made for ME. Ah "The thing is, is that those who do not want said game to be changed to suit others, is that they also want other games to be changed to suit them." is pure BS. There is a set of people who don't want to see an easy mode in DS. There is a set of people who want to see other games changed. These 2 sets have an intersection but ar different sets. This thread is about letting the devs chose, so obviously we are not asking to change any game.

Again, this is getting boring. I am tired to read the same folks FORCING their way of playing games. No, we aren't doing that, we are simply telling you that there are enough games to suit your taste and you shouldn't FORCE your way of enjoying games into EVEY SINGLE GAME.

Ah, and one last thing: DS games are not even that difficult compared to, let's say Kazio Mario games. Of course you die and retry a lot, but the skill needed to beat the game isn't that high. You don't need frame perfect inputs, pixel perfect moves, deep knowledge of the game mechanics, various speedrunning techniques, etc. The bosses have a clear (and quite slow) pattern and you can take it slow.

One major difficulty in DS (if you are going blind) are the stats. You don't know what the stats do and new players usualy do a bad build, and either they do little damage (so they need to dodge a lot to beat bosses) or take too much damage (and they don't have much room for error). But you can always grind to fix your build.

The complete lack of logic is what's hard to understand.

So you consider that YOUR way of enjoying games IS universal and refuse to understand that some people don't enjoy games the way you do, and call it "lack of logic". Great. So you refuse to understand that I can accept that some games have an easy mode but I also don't want an easy mode in every game. 

Yes, when at the beggining I have to decide a level of difficulty, it affects me. I don't have a clue if hard means "just a bit harder" or "your tears will be made of blood". So I have to decide. If the game is too easy/hard, I either have to restart from the beggining or not fully enjoy the game. And I don't even know if after that point, the game will be harder or keep a similar level of difficulty.

Yes, when the game dynamically adjust the difficulty, it affects me. I never asked them to hold my hand.

Yes, when I was looking for tips for a specific type of builds in Path of Ecile, I won't have to dismiss 90% of them because they were from people playing in "normal" mode and not "hardcore" (you are a lot more defensive when you can't die even once).

Yes it affects me when I have to faceroll a game to have access to some "hard mode" (and usually more than just harder and not even balanced).

https://www.makinggames.biz/news/debating-difficulty-settings-in-game-design11134.html

But yeah, the best argument when you don't understand something is "your complete lack of logic". If the game doesn't suit you, don't play that game. Simple and easy. Again, just don't play that game and play something else.