Elden Ring DLC's Mixed Reception and Difficulty Issues

TapTechNews, June 22nd. The DLC "Shadow of the Golden Tree" of "Elden Ring" was officially released yesterday and has achieved a "Very Positive" reputation on the Steam platform, priced at $29.99 for the US region. However, just one day later, the reputation of this DLC dropped to "Mixed".

As of 8 PM on June 22nd, the Steam platform shows that there are 11450 user reviews for the DLC "Shadow of the Golden Tree" of "Elden Ring", of which 64% are positive. In addition, the evaluation of this DLC by Chinese players is "Mostly Negative", with a positive rate of only 33% among 5636 reviews.

In the frontend reviews, players generally feedback that the DLC "Shadow of the Golden Tree" of "Elden Ring" has unreasonable values and there are optimization problems. Some players said: "I have felt成倍 times the pain in this DLC, but not the happiness that I should have had before."

Regarding the game difficulty problem, Hidetaka Miyazaki, the president of FromSoftware and the game producer, gave his own opinion when interviewed by The Guardian.

If we really wanted to let people all over the world play this game, we could make the difficulty lower and lower, but that's not the right way. If we took this approach, I don't think the game would have achieved its current results, because the sense of accomplishment that players gain from overcoming these obstacles is an important part of the game experience. Reducing the difficulty would take away the fun of the game - in my opinion, it would break the game itself.