That’s your interpretation of what casual is. You’re not wrong for what you consider casual, but you can only define it for yourself. You don’t get to make the rules for everyone else. Your personal feelings don’t change that.
You’re arguing with a brick wall. Half of Snozh’s arguments is ignoring the many other things you bring up to him and then zeroing in on one thing for six hours because acknowledging the other thing would fundamentally destroy his argument. That’s just how he operates. I even provided him definitions that casual goes beyond a time metric and he continued to ignore them and even deflected onto me saying that I was ignoring the definition instead despite that never being the case.
I spent the better part of two days explaining to him that I wasn’t talking about the act of raiding more than I was the time commitment required for players to start raiding (learning mechanics, learning the fundamental parts of your class you may not utilize otherwise, understanding encounters + grinding to get to that point) and yet every time he continued to hunker down on some nonsense that at no point I ever brought up.
Dude is actually the living embodiment of a brick wall.
Because the requirements to enter raiding isn’t as high as you keep trying to pretend they are and that’s why your point is being ignored as I have already explained that to you.
Oh, and then he inserts his own experience (as an experienced player, mind you) as definitive proof that the commitment isn’t high even though the very issue with this game for most players in the last two years has been the commitment, hence why subscriptions have been hemorrhaging.
You actually have zero proof that people are quitting because of commitment. Most of the sub laps was during the extremely long content patch of 9.0.5.
Alright, mister wordsmith, let’s look at the literal definition of the word:
relaxed and unconcerned.
not regular or permanent.
If I’m relaxed when I play, I’m playing casually. If I’m unconcerned with my progress when I play, I’m playing casually. If I don’t play regularly, I’m playing casually. If I don’t play permanently, I’m playing casually.
Notice how there are two definitions of the same word? That means the word can be used in either meaning. It does not have to meet the criteria of both, as you are interpreting it. Based on your interpretation of the literal definition (which is wrong), for someone to not play casually they would need to play permanently, without rest, at regular intervals, with full concern, and never being relaxed.
So, based on how you define casual, everyone is casual.