Let's have a 'Casual' discussion

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Is there any way we can come to an agreement of what constitutes “causal” from a baseline??

Everyone has their own definition. And not very many of them line up very well. Some base it on time played. Some base it on non-instanced content. Some say M5. Some say M9. Some say “I’m casual and I have a 226 ilvl”. And there are so many attacks on “casuals” at this point it feels like if your not pushing 20+ or downing mythic raids then your considered a casual.

I would just like to be able to defend myself, as a self-defined casual, appropriately. And that’s hard to do when nobody even knows what a casual really is. I have come to call myself a “world player” or a “soloish player” or, probably the most accurate, “non-mythic/raid” player.

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Not on these forums.

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A ‘casual’ is someone who plays the game casually. That’s it.

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It’s a weird flexible label that changes every single time to fit a different narrative. At this point, it’s an utterly useless term, because everyone sees ‘casual’ as different.

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I’m as casual as they come, working 70 hours a week, and raising a family, and I achieved ilvl 226 no problem. Casuals just seem to be bad, entitled players who don’t want to put the work in. No, you don’t deserve welfare epics or anything else if you won’t work for it.

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And usually thrown around as an insult.

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I think casual players are people who play less than 2 hours a week.

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Casual used to be commonly accepted to be mean somebody who didn’t have much time to play but that seems to have changed, from what I’ve been able to see on the forums there’s 3 types of casuals:

  • The Solo/Anti-Social Casual
  • The Non Competitive Casual
  • The Bad Casual
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I appreciate you NOT staying on topic and bringing you toxic crap into my thread. Well done. I can now safely ignore anything you ever say. Thank you :slight_smile:

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i probably fit the definition of a casual.
I did my covenant campaign on some alt, do LFR with them to get some upgrade/farm transmog and as a self imposed ‘‘challenge’’ i decided to try and break out a little out of my casual cocoon and did normal raiding a little. And that it, i mostly ignore mythic+ entirely (beside some run with friends to help them)

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Yah I kinda of imagine that being the case. But I can still hope :smiley:

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Anyone that does harder content than me is an elitist. Anyone that does easier content than me is a casual.

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This is probably how I would define it as well. I don’t do m+ or raids (anymore). But I wouldn’t say that doing them makes you non-casual.

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I’m a casual.

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Yah that seems to be the consensus. Which makes the term completely useless :frowning:

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A Casual player is a player that doesn’t play a lot. They play casually.

A Hardcore player is a player that plays a lot and partakes on the hardest activities the game has to offer.

And between them are the Core players, people that play a lot but stick to EZ-Mode stuff.

Nobody cares about Core players lol

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It has to be based on time played per week, or per month. That’s the only definition that makes sense.

Basing “casual” off of difficulty completed is ridiculous.

Somebody who’s logged in 10 hours a day because they run LFR on 50 characters? No. Not casual.

Somebody who RP’s in Goldshire 6 hours a day? No. Not casual, either.

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This would work if we could get people on board. It’s a great term … “Core Player”!!!

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We need to change the term for Casual to “Softcore Player”

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