Why not?
I don’t follow meta, i don’t care for consumables, i don’t do professions, i don’t pve, i’ve never done a sim, i don’t follow guides, i’ve never done maw dailies, i’m not getting sockets, i don’t group with people i don’t know, i skip vault, i don’t lfg, i don’t do callings, i don’t have a single conduit above level 184, i don’t do wquests intentionally, i’ve never farmed rares or gotten mounts, etc
I don’t consider myself hardcore at all
Well, probably the type of content. Like, I definitely play more than 2 hours a day, but I never touch mythics, or raids outside of LFR. I do PVP but only unrated battlegrounds.
I think it’s pretty casual despite the amount of hours.
Nobody wants to play. Sniff, sniff… would have liked to have seen some answers versus the same debate. O well. I tried.
Probably not someone worth explaining anything to 
This is why there’s no point trying to define this word lol If I play 20 hours a day but all I do is pet battle then some people will consider me casual.
I try not to use the word casual anymore though, I like the word ‘Queuer’ 
I only do queue-able content.
being casual is 100% about how much you play, and 0% about the content you participate in.
More like you’re an amateur.
Someone who drinks a couple beers enjoys beer casually. Someone who spends enough time to brew their own beer but simply doesn’t derive a profit from it is an amateur enthusiast.
Casual is a measure of time. There’s no such thing as a casual who spends a dozen hours a week engaging in activity. You just aren’t good at golf and that’s totally fine, not everyone is going to be good.
I can never hear it enough from cute night elves <3
I dunno, casual to me is just someone who doesn’t do progressive or group content as a main priority. Has nothing to do with your time played kinda thing, you just don’t wanna be one of the srs bsnss people.
Not that there’s anything wrong with any playstyle, it’s your money.
nope, that’s being non competitive and/or a solo player. you can be casual and those, but being those does not make you casual. it’s purely about time investment.
Yeah pretty much lol
To me hardcore is someone who gets their buffs and consumes and gets bis gear and sims if their gear drop is an upgrade or not and does content to be bis in whatever they do, like a pvper doing maw dailies to put sockets on his pvp gear is hardcore to me. Someone rerolling fotm is hardcore to me, someone making alts to farm a ressource or an item is hardcore, etc
There will never be a set definition
exactly.
So when I used to farm ghost iron ore for 5 hours a day i guess that made me ‘hardcore’ lmao.
Hardly.
My attitude towards the game…how seriously Im taking it…is the only gauge as to whether Im casual or hardcore.
Someone who can only play 6 hours a week but is VERY serious about their game is far more hardcore than I am when Im spending 8 hours a day just farming and doing random quests here and there with no real sense of direction.
I feel like there’s about to be a debate that doesn’t need to happen 
People use the word differently, there doesn’t need to be a definition that’s agreed upon as long as you understand how the person is using the term.
It will never have a universally agreed upon meaning.
If I told someone I was a hardcore WoW player, and they looked at my item level, and my non-existent IO score, and my raid progression, I would be laughed out of the room.
I’m getting the time limit I put up is the major barrier to agreeing by most.
AB1cd
Though now I mostly just login to clear the mission table , the weekly court and check fi any calling have lined up
If that were true though, disabled shut-ins like myself have the rest of you kids beat by miles.
That’s why I don’t put too much into how much time you play. I’m much more casual playing 10 hours a day doing old raids and pet battling than the guy who logs in for raid nights and that’s it.
But that’s just my opinion. And no I’m not playing WoW 10 hours a day 
I was only giving the first definition on google, not giving you my personal feelings.
Casual = People who play 2 hours or less per week
Yeah. Hoped there would have been some A2b kind of answers with caveats/modifications for personal play. A game.
You’d get laughed out of the room because of how inefficiently you spend your time.
Instead of wasting your time farming Anima and whining about how alt-unfriendly the expansion is (you are NOT casual if you’re whining about how hard you feel obligated to grind Anima), you could simply be smart and play the game the correct way by engaging socially with other players.
I think you would find that what you perceive as the territory of the “hardcore” player is simply the most fun enjoyable way to play the game. Players who are simply better at the game than you are almost certainly having more fun than you, a person posting about how tedious anima grinding is (but grinding it all the same - not something a casual player does).