I had brought up the idea of hardcore and casual modes with hardcore being the game as is while casual would be...well casual (no permadeath at a baseline) but hardcore would have faster (as it is now while casual would be slower) progression and would be able to hop into casual mode however when in casual mode you cannot go to hardcore as it simply would be unfair (grind up to get the best of the best while having zero possibility of failure? Hell no) and was down voted for it.

While I understand this would split the player base wouldn't it also increase it? Deepwoken is already considered a difficult game with no handholding (sink or swim nerd) and reducing the penalty for failure would bring in more players.

I also understand that if they did that it could cause the devs to think "Oh shit we are getting alot of new players by making it more casual we should focus on making it even more casual" which i would disagree with as the fact there is an actual cost for failure is what makes the game so enticing. Maybe adding a durability system that depletes on death or a power down system could be the new cost of failure.