>>47280706I think it was done on purpose.
Even GF shouldn't be able to fuck up THAT badly.
It's more likely that they realized difficulty settings would be more work, but they also saw a pretty big demand for it, so they decided to implement it as shittily as possible and then use the poor reception as an excuse to never do it again.
There was probably a meeting where everyone pitched their ideas for the worst way to implement difficulty settings, and the guy who said "how about we make them version exclusive" got promoted.
