Have we talked about this before?

Is it a design flaw if it is designed kind of with one ideal outcome in mind or one path in mind,

but you could also get through it this way.

It's kind of like microtransactions.

The main problem that people have is when it's the pay to win, if it's like, hey, I don't

want to, I want to level up

quicker, then sure, you can take the shortcut or you want to do this really, really hard.

What if you did?

Like, grounded level on Last of Us.

The game is meant to be played by just, you know, different, you know, levels of difficulty.

I chose a really hard way to do it, not the ideal way.

Is that bad?

Is that a design flaw?

I think that's a positive.

Giving players more options is always a positive, I would think.

But in the case of Bioshock, if you have no way to telegraph in advance to the player,

you're choosing a hard choice.

That's a difference between opting into the difficult path versus just luck of the draw.

Gotcha.

Right?

Yeah.

I mean, if I, if I, like, um, uh, day of sex was famous for-

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