Does adjusting the difficulty affect the Gameplay in the arcades?

[Onomoki]

I know you can change difficulties for each machine - does this only affect income etc. - or does playing the game actually get harder/easier?

Also - please lower the Cookie Candy Crush game´s Goal "Play 100games" to "Play 50" games. It´s so incredible grindy... i finished the game on 38stars (bad ending) and can´t just possible see myself grinding 62 more games, for a bonus... even though i would love to 100% the game.

[Joe Coffee]

Good question. Does increasing difficulty also lower popularity and the amount you can earn on an arcade (i.e., fewer people are willing to spend money on a game that is too hard)? Seems like a no-brainer but I wonder if it happens while in-game.

[Gyger]

The effects of difficulty and other parameters are explained at the bottom of the PDA when viewing the details of a machine.

Difficulty does not affect popularity but how profitable the machine is. The best price point depends on how popular the machine is.

[Karma]

I've finished the game and maxed many of the machines, and I experimented with this very question and concluded that difficulty seems to affect sales only, it doesn't seem to affect actual gameplay that I could notice.

[Zalym]

No it does not--I tried it a few times when working on the goals for some machines and there was no noticeable change in gameplay.

The only thing that matters for your gaming experience seems to be if the cabinet itself has a difficulty setting built into the game. The PDA seems to only be a profit vs. machine breakdown max/min system.

[Onomoki]

Thank you for answering my question everybody! Personally, i like that difficulty settings doesn´t adjust gameplay - that would put the simulator part at odds with the Arcade Gameplay Goals part.

Now - if only the goals weren´t so incredible grindy...