What does it mean to be a casual player ? Someone who only plays a certain number of hours a day or week, someone who doesn’t belong to a guild, someone who never does m+ ?
It’s more of a style of play, not necessarily what content you participate in or how many hours you’ve got under your belt.
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it changes depending on the narrative being pushed
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Casual is usually someone who just logs in to run an instance or two or a few quests and professions but nothing serious.
Hardcore is more about pushing to the highest content available asap, farming for upgrades and materials consistently and raiding several nights a week is typically the in game definition of “hardcore” .
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Given your name, I guess you would be the one to ask.
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They log in, do some of the campaign quests, and log out.
I’m not sure if it can get any more casual than that. Some folks don’t do dungeons. Or raids.
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I don’t think there’s a consensus.
Between the axes of time played, content done, and willingness to optimize for that content, there’s all sort of ways you could define casual players.
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Yeah, I think casual is a term that explains how a player engages with the content, or how often they engage with it. Not necessarily what content they engage with.
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You!
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I think of it like a casual relationship. I call you over when I want to have fun, you come over if you want to have fun too, we have fun, you go home, I eat pringles in the tub. We break up when one of us gets bored or moves too far away.
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It’s totally meaningless in this context because everyone has a different definition.
The forums like to think a casual player is someone who doesn’t really play the game, when in reality it’s much more than that. A casual player in my opinion is someone who still does play the game like M+, Raiding, or PVP but doesn’t login often or doesn’t really have a goal to be the very best or have the highest ILVL. Or it’s just someone that logins and just does pet battles or tmog or even leveling. Either way, it’s just someone that plays the game but just not for hours on end. So for example, a highschool kid only being allowed to play for 2 hours or on certain days of the week.
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A casual player is anybody that is less dedicated to playing WoW than you are.
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Yup, i consider myself casual because i do not do anything higher than LFR, and zero M+ since BFA dropped.
But did put in 17 hours or so yesterday lmao, playing from 4AM until 10PM.
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Yep. I play a lot, and have been doing so since I began in 2009. Honestly, I don’t even want to look at my time played at this point. I don’t raid beyond LFR at the moment, but I will run normals if the incentive is there and if it’s accessible enough. I do run dungeons, though mainly Timewalking ones. I do open world content like WQs, public events, etc. I even PvP if, like raiding, the incentive is there. And I love farming old raids. I also enjoy gearing my characters up as best as I am able. But I take part in all of this in a very laid-back manner with reasonable expectations.
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Honestly I think it’s more about attitude lol There are casual players that do raids, mythic, etc…, but they aren’t go go go! about it. If they get their drop, great! If they don’t, ah well there’s always next time. If they lose a loot roll, they just shrug and move on.
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A casual player is a player who thinks it’s someone else’s fault.
Depends on who you’re asking and no matter who you ask they probably don’t know.
That’s where a lot of subjectivity comes in. I wouldn’t consider that a casual amount of time. If that’s someones usual amount of time, even doing world or legacy content, I wouldn’t call them casual, really.
I don’t even like to refer to content as “casual content.” There’s stuff like world content and legacy content, which may be more accessible to whatever people define as casual players.
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Really??? Dang, I’ve been doing it wrong all these years 