I already clarified I’ve been talking tutorial in the sense of taking the player aside and actually teaching them before they play the game.
Tooltips are something present throughout the game and don’t factor into “the tutorial is X minutes long” kind of statements like we’ve been using.
The part of the game where you take the player aside and go “this is how you move, attack, etc.” doesn’t really need to be more than like 10-20 minutes long.
and that’s not something any of the Diablo games actually had, yet it still brought in millions of new players.
You also said you would redesign the itemization around new players, which I highly doubt is something you’d let me turn off with a checkbox.
The gameplay design you’ve said you would change to cater to new player isn’t optional.
Blizzard games used to not try to make everybody happy, though. They had their target market and catered to it very well.
Being accessible isn’t the same as attempting to make everybody happy.