What are you guys talking about in these threads? My understanding, for the most part, is that they are mostly solo and rarely do anything more than a heroic dungeon. Definitely not M+ and spend between an hour to three. I get up early to play 2 hours M-F, sometimes a Saturday because I am a caretaker. And I write, knit, paint, and read when time permits. I do not participate in guild.
I just asked a question in another topic and most of the answers were totally undoable for me - who I assumed was a casual!
So for sanities sake I think a definition might clear up a lot of misunderstanding going on.
As a literal definition, âcasualâ is just someone who doesnât put that much time in - maybe a few hours in a given week.
However, since a raid logger could potentially log in less often but still have better rewards that a second player canât get to, it tends to be defined as âsomeone not pushing for raid progression or PvP ratingâ.
Everybody has a different definition of it and we could go 5000 posts and not have a unified definition.
Iâve always used a definition that was more about play time than it was about how good or bad the player actually was.
Iâd also be willing to call a mythic raider a casual if all they did was log in for a few hours a week to raid and nothing else, so itâs probably not the best way to describe the two groups currently arguing on the forums.
âCasualâ is actually a term used by people that take the game far too seriously to describe those that donât - ie, replacement for ânoobâ (or is it n00b?).
absolutely agree.
One person defines it by time servedâŠanother by motivation even if time served is less. etc, etc, etc.
in my mind casual = if it annoys me, no matter how much Id like to do X, Iâll drop it in a heartbeat rather than deal with that irritationâŠânot taking it too seriouslyâ.
If you look at the context of these threads, âCasualâ is most often used to refer to be people not pushing the most difficult content in the game. If youâre not Mythic Raiding, pushing Mythic+ keys, running Rated PvP, youâre Casual for the purposes of the debates that have been going on.
Casual can mean different things to different people. IMO here is how I define a casual player. One who doesnât play much. Maybe a couple times a week at like 3 or 4 hrs tops a week. One who just does LFR and not interested in doing harder content. Doesnât really do m+ or if they do maybe like a +2 here and there. Doesnât really pvp except maybe some random BGs here and there.
In the end there is nothing wrong with anyoneâs game style. It is all about what is fun for you. However, people also need to realize if you arenât going to put in the extra effort and time to do harder content then you should absolutely not expect to get those same type of rewards for not putting in that effort/time.
There are different ways to define casuals. A lot of different types identify as âcasualsâ.
How much time a person plays. So someone who plays more is more hardcore, and someone who plays less is more casual. This is completely contradicted by the raid logger, who hardly plays at all but plays the most difficult content when they are playing.
The type of content they play, or the goals they set. So someone who never does difficult content would be more casual than someone who does a lot of it, regardless of hours played.
Some elite players call themselves âcasualâ because they could be more hardcore. They arenât world first, so theyâre âcasualâ. To them, the mythic raider slumming it for a break from the hardest content is the true casual, while the majority of players in the game are just âbaddiesâ.
My definition of casual is about two things, attitude and time played. A casual doesnât take the game too serious. They arenât looking to push high end content. They just want to have fun and not be stressed out. They donât scream at people for not knowing how to play a class/spec perfectly. And usually those players only play the game for 7 to 14 hours a week.