Casual Vs Hardcore

[Jonnusthegreat]

Casual means you play for the experience - you don't care about resets, min/maxing, you just play.

Hardcore means you play for rewards - you make sure you are getting max or close to max rewards for the reset.

Depends on your mindset at the time and activity.

[arkanon]

Casual means you play for the experience - you don't care about resets, min/maxing, you just play.

Hardcore means you play for rewards - you make sure you are getting max or close to max rewards for the reset.

Depends on your mindset at the time and activity.

This is a pretty well summarized version of what i was saying - imo, its the mindset and attitude that is the difference.

[MoanaLisa]

Casual means you play for the experience - you don't care about resets, min/maxing, you just play.

Hardcore means you play for rewards - you make sure you are getting max or close to max rewards for the reset.

Depends on your mindset at the time and activity.

That doesn't work. I play maybe twice a week for a couple of hours every session. I've been in the game over 10 years. I enjoy the experience of new zones when an expansion drops but after that I do have a list of things to do that will help to progress my character. So I'm playing for rewards long after the 'experience' part is over. No, they are not max rewards but they are still rewards and I actively go after them and in a lot of cases I max out non-raid stuff long after everyone else. I'm OK with that.

That said, I'm as casual as they come. You're right about the mindset, less right about the specific definitions.

[Jonnusthegreat]

That doesn't work. I play maybe twice a week for a couple of hours every session. I've been in the game over 10 years. I enjoy the experience of new zones when an expansion drops but after that I do have a list of things to do that will help to progress my character. So I'm playing for rewards long after the 'experience' part is over. No, they are not max rewards but they are still rewards and I actively go after them and in a lot of cases I max out non-raid stuff long after everyone else. I'm OK with that.

That said, I'm as casual as they come. You're right about the mindset, less right about the specific definitions.

Sounds like it works perfectly. You're casual because you aren't maxing your rewards. Casuals still improve their characters.

[WowIsDead64]

Here is a secret. Playing solo is not valid in a multiplayer game. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. If solo play was valid then you could get the highest level of gear solo. You can't. Solo play is your tutorial before you go out to the world and do group activities for the best gear. If this offends people then my advice is move on. Blizzard loves your dollars but actual real players don't.

Here is secret. Wow doesn't have to be multiplayer game.

[arkanon]

Here is secret. Wow doesn't have to be multiplayer game.

I mean.......you do know what the second M in MMORPG stands for though, right? Wether their argument is valid or not, wether I agree or not, I think it's pretty wild to suggest wow "doesn't have to be" a multiplayer game. Shoes don't HAVE to go on your feet - but wearing them on your hands while saying "these shoes suck!" Isn't going to result in a lot of sympathy.

[WowIsDead64]

I mean.......you do know what the second M in MMORPG stands for though, right? Wether their argument is valid or not, wether I agree or not, I think it's pretty wild to suggest wow "doesn't have to be" a multiplayer game. Shoes don't HAVE to go on your feet - but wearing them on your hands while saying "these shoes suck!" Isn't going to result in a lot of sympathy.

It's standard mistake. It's not genre, that defines game. It's game, that defines it's genre. If Blizzard want to make more money, they should make game for wider auditory. And this M letter obviously prevents them from doing it.

[arkanon]

It's standard mistake. It's not genre, that defines game. It's game, that defines it's genre. If Blizzard want to make more money, they should make game for wider auditory. And this M letter obviously prevents them from doing it.

Is that why Cod:warzone, LoL, fortnite, and CS:Go are all struggling so much? Because they made the mistake of focusing on multiplayer?

[Azerate]

Yes. You can be a hardcore raider, hardcore m+er, hardcore pet battlers, hardcore collector, hardcore pvper etc.

The problem with understanding this comes from elitism found in some circles (notably people from the original main activities of the game - raids and pvp) who think that you have to partake in their favorite activities in order to be classified as hardcore.

I only do heroic raids and do like 1-2 mythic bosses per tier tops. At the same time, I consider myself much more hardcore than like 90% of mythic raiders due to my collections being much much better than most of theirs. This doesn't have much to do with the topic itself, I just like to include to piss those people off

[Soon-TM]

WoD was the most casual you could be in WoW. You literally had to do nothing. WoD is the only expansion in the game where you could get full mythic gear by just logging on and doing garrison missions. The most casual friendly WoW expansion.

Please explain how dropping high level gear from something as dumb as a facebook-like minigame such as garrisons equals somehow to casual content. That's only true if you go by the meme of cAsUelZ WunT TwotWosEex GEarZ In thE m4iK.

[ohwell]

Yes. You can be a hardcore raider, hardcore m+er, hardcore pet battlers, hardcore collector, hardcore pvper etc.

The problem with understanding this comes from elitism found in some circles (notably people from the original main activities of the game - raids and pvp) who think that you have to partake in their favorite activities in order to be classified as hardcore.

I only do heroic raids and do like 1-2 mythic bosses per tier tops. At the same time, I consider myself much more hardcore than like 90% of mythic raiders due to my collections being much much better than most of theirs. This doesn't have much to do with the topic itself, I just like to include to piss those people off

lol "elitism" has nothing to do with it. The problem is when people who demand these other activities' incentives are given for nothing to people who refuse to participate in them. The rewards should reflect the content. You do pet battles all day long you're typically rewarded with items related to pet battles and winning tends to net you better results. You do PVE at low levels, your gear should cap out at low levels. You do PVE at the highest level you should get the highest reward. This constant claim that "casuals need gear" needs to stop as you can complete the content they do at the same ease of mythic raiders do their content in max gear with 200 ilvl gear or lower.

If anything I think you missed the point where people sit and proclaim THEMSELVES to be casual not the other way around when said people claiming to be casual spend hours upon hours in the game and just refuse to do the content. That's like playing Dark Souls and refusing to kill a single enemy and wondering why you can't get items from Anor Londo.

[munkeyinorbit]

Probably the most hardcore player in the game is the guy who never left the Wandering Isle and levels up to max level each expansion by picking flowers. Hard, no. Hardcore, yep.

You're mistaking grinding easy content for hardcore. It is a common mistake. It's about the content type not how long it takes you.

[Azerate]

lol "elitism" has nothing to do with it. The problem is when people who demand these other activities' incentives are given for nothing to people who refuse to participate in them. The rewards should reflect the content. You do pet battles all day long you're typically rewarded with items related to pet battles and winning tends to net you better results. You do PVE at low levels, your gear should cap out at low levels. You do PVE at the highest level you should get the highest reward. This constant claim that "casuals need gear" needs to stop as you can complete the content they do at the same ease of mythic raiders do their content in max gear with 200 ilvl gear or lower.

If anything I think you missed the point where people sit and proclaim THEMSELVES to be casual not the other way around when said people claiming to be casual spend hours upon hours in the game and just refuse to do the content. That's like playing Dark Souls and refusing to kill a single enemy and wondering why you can't get items from Anor Londo.

Yes, and people call themselves casual despite not being casuals because they are constantly told that you are a casual unless you are getting cutting edges, glad titles or famed slayers every tier.

And then every debate turns into 'casual vs. hardcore' because people really believe they are casual, despite being very devoted to the game.

You're mistaking grinding easy content for hardcore. It is a common mistake. It's about the content type not how long it takes you.

Hardcore has nothing to do with difficulty of the activity. If you're grinding something for 10 hours for 100 days, then you're a hardcore grinder of that particular thing.

[Shaqthefat]

Please explain how dropping high level gear from something as dumb as a facebook-like minigame such as garrisons equals somehow to casual content. That's only true if you go by the meme of cAsUelZ WunT TwotWosEex GEarZ In thE m4iK.

Being able to get the best gear in the game by doing 0 work is very, very casual friendly

[arkanon]

That's only true if you go by the meme of cAsUelZ WunT TwotWosEex GEarZ In thE m4iK.

Could you translate please? If you are trying to say that casuals want high lvl gear given to them while taken away from mythic raiders, that isnt a "meme" - there is a discussion going on in another thread right now where multiple people are suggesting completely removing all gear from mythic raids, and giving it to "casuals" for farming WQ instead, as more people do that activity.

If you are trying to say something else, then please clarify.

[Echo of Soul]

Just like if you're dating a girl casually playing a game casually means you're not taking it super seriously and you're not that committed.

You're not going to put in the hard work required to maintain a relationship, you're just there to have fun.

[Frozenbro]

Here is secret. Wow doesn't have to be multiplayer game.

Doesnt have to be, but it should never cater to solo players cause it was never the focus

[Soon-TM]

Being able to get the best gear in the game by doing 0 work is very, very casual friendly

First, you are equating casual players to lazy ones, which is very... Misguided, to say the least. Second, you are equating a game with work, which is just... lol.

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Could you translate please? If you are trying to say that casuals want high lvl gear given to them while taken away from mythic raiders, that isnt a "meme" - there is a discussion going on in another thread right now where multiple people are suggesting completely removing all gear from mythic raids, and giving it to "casuals" for farming WQ instead, as more people do that activity.

If you are trying to say something else, then please clarify.

Would you mind providing such a quote? Because you seem to have severely misunderstood that other thread if this is what you are getting from.

[Shaqthefat]

First, you are equating casual players to lazy ones, which is very... Misguided, to say the least. Second, you are equating a game with work, which is just... lol.

No, I'm really not. For the casual players who want gear, but don't have time to get gear this was the expansion for them.

There are multiple definitions of work. Work doesn't mean a job. If you had to go put milk in the fridge so it doesn't spoil that is classified as work. Killing a boss to get loot drops is technically work.

[arkanon]

Would you mind providing such a quote? Because you seem to have severely misunderstood that other thread if this is what you are getting from.

Person A said "mythic should not reward any gear". I pointed this out as being a pretty backwards way of looking at it, and then person B, linked below, responded:

He's right it shouldn't. The upshot of this is that if it was handled correctly you could raid log and not have to worry about ever leaving your mythic raiding bubble.

So this person completely agrees that all loot should be removed from Mythic raids. I asked for clarity on what your silly little attempt at a meme actually meant, since it is obviously not easy to read.

edit - found the original post from "person A"

You have it backwards. Why should the hardest content even reward gear? It's about the challenge, right?