[devonin]

Originally Posted by -Yukari-

I just find the length bias in difficulty ratings kind of stupid. I know I've said this before, but a pattern that is hard enough to be a difficulty 10 is a pattern that's hard enough to be a difficulty 10. If it's 40 seconds of difficulty 10 patterns, that doesn't make it a 40 second difficulty 9, that makes it a 40 second difficulty 10.

{Rose} is easier than this and is a difficulty 10.... makes me laugh.

But if you consider the song to be rated based on its difficulty with respect to AAA'ing and FC'ing rather than just the raw difficulty of the steps themselves, songs that are quite long give more time for something minute to go badly. It is much harder to AAA a song of consistant difficulty 10 that is 6:00 compared to a song that is consistantly difficulty 10 that is 1:30. Lag, twitchy finger, etc.

If you assume that the length factors into the songs you're comparing new songs to, it makes more sense that the length would factor into the one you're trying to gauge.