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Posted - 2012.10.16 03:44:00 -
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I would personally put the divider somewhere around the 5-7 hours a week mark. I play around 4 or 5 hours a week and would consider myself right close to the edge of being a "hardcore" player. |
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Posted - 2012.10.16 21:18:00 -
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D3aTH D3alER54 wrote:Baal Roo wrote:I would personally put the divider somewhere around the 5-7 hours a week mark. I play around 4 or 5 hours a week and would consider myself right close to the edge of being a "hardcore" player. Ok, let me get ready for this, it's going to be a big one! LOLLL!!!!!!! 5-7hrs a week and you consider yourself a HC player!?!? I play that nearly every 2days and even i don't consider myself "HC", and people think i'm the troll....................
Casual<>Hardcore<>No Lifer
I think you have an extremely unrealistic idea of what the average casual gamer invests in gaming.
To me, a casual player is the guy who plays a few hours of games a week. Maybe Saturday afternoon he flips on his PS3 and kills an hour or two casually burning some time on whatever game he feels like messing around on.
A "hardcore" gamer, is someone who invests free time to try and achieve specific results in specific games. For a hardcore gamer, the gaming is an actual hobby rather than simply a time waster. A hardcore gamer is usually actively playing multiple games. So even if they are spending 3 hours or more every night gaming, it's unlikely they're gonna rack up all of that time on a single game.
I personally probably spend 10-20 hours per week gaming. Ask any casual or non-gamer if that's "hardcore" and I'd wager they will answer in the affirmative.
What YOU are, is closer to a "no lifer", which is basically someone who devotes as much time to a single game as many people devote to an actual job. 20+ hours a week, every week, on a single game is well beyond your run of the mill hardcore gamer, especially assuming you don't just play Dust 514. |
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Vane Arcadia wrote:Zekain Kade wrote:Casual: A player that does not care about about winning or losing, he is just there to have a good time.
Competitive/ hardcore player: A player who wants to win at all costs. Nah - I am casual but when I play I still like to compete and I still hate loosing. In my younger mmo days I was certainly hardcore - I was logged into my game 24/7 and was active 16-18 hours, and that included at work... (which is bad btw). I would camp for up to 24 hours for a boss spawn. I kept this up for three years in one game - ******* Korean grinder stole my life. Following that I played Eve and the SWG to the same extent. I think I have balance now and I play 3-4 hours a day, more on weekends.
3-4 hours a day isn't hardcore?
So, if a guy told you he played softball EVERYDAY from 5pm until dusk, you wouldn't think he was a hardcore softball player?
How about a guy that gets up and works out at the gym every day from 4 am to 8 am? He's not "hardcore" into working out?
You guys are so funny. |
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Posted - 2012.10.16 23:44:00 -
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Vane Arcadia wrote:Baal Roo wrote:Vane Arcadia wrote:Zekain Kade wrote:Casual: A player that does not care about about winning or losing, he is just there to have a good time.
Competitive/ hardcore player: A player who wants to win at all costs. Nah - I am casual but when I play I still like to compete and I still hate loosing. In my younger mmo days I was certainly hardcore - I was logged into my game 24/7 and was active 16-18 hours, and that included at work... (which is bad btw). I would camp for up to 24 hours for a boss spawn. I kept this up for three years in one game - ******* Korean grinder stole my life. Following that I played Eve and the SWG to the same extent. I think I have balance now and I play 3-4 hours a day, more on weekends. 3-4 hours a day isn't hardcore? So, if a guy told you he played softball EVERYDAY from 5pm until dusk, you wouldn't think he was a hardcore softball player? How about a guy that gets up and works out at the gym every day from 4 am to 8 am? He's not "hardcore" into working out? You guys are so funny. I guess if I hadn't got the experience of a true no lifer (of which I am less than proud) I might have thought it was hardcore - but no 3-4 hours isn't hardcore. After work if I wasn't gaming I would probably just watch TV for 3-4 hours and I assume you wouldn't consider that hardcore ? Gaming is not exactly physical so I do not think you can equate it to going to the gym.
I would absolutely consider 4 hours of TV nightly "hardcore".
As far as the physical argument, how about someone who played solitaire for 4 hours every night? I'd say that's a pretty hardcore solitaire player, no? |
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