It is, but I’m not against making it harder. I’m against making it so I have to suddenly start to scheduling my whole life around it.
And you know what? I’m okay with that, if the alternative is that I have to switch to single-player or some ephemeral private server just because I have a busy life, with my family and my work taking precedence over a virtual world.
I’m hoping that’s not the only alternative. Which makes me wonder: I’ve played some harsh survival games, but they were either single-player, or they were the kind of multiplayer game that you spin up and play awhile and then shut down. Are there any good persistent-world multiplayer survival games? By “persistent world” I mean that the game is running 24/7 even if you’re not online.
But let’s not answer that here and derail @Bodin’s topic. I made a separate topic for this question: