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>do you really believe that there are people out there who revel in their ability to play a game on the hardest difficulty, not because they're good at it and receive an intrinsic satisfaction, but because they know that someone else is unable to do so and thus it makes them feel special?
Isn't that how difficulty is judged in general?
If you ask 100 people to do a task and 90 people can't do it, it's difficult. So is a task when 50 people can't do it. By what other metric would you or could you judge a task and its difficulty if not by ability of an average participant?