Naxxramas

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Aha, you're taking one extreme and going to the other.  Blizzard never said that WoW was exclusively for the casual gamer.  They said that there would be plenty of content in the game for the casual gamer.  That does not mean that a casual gamer would get to experience every single thing in the game.
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Well, at this point in my life, I consider myself somewhere in the middle. I come from work early, at about 3 pm. About twice a week, I get to play for an hour or so in the afternoon while my wife is at work and while I help my son to do his homework, and every evening I play from about 9:30pm 'till 12:30am, at which time I go to bed, so I can wake up at about ... ummm.... 4:30 am. Yes, I do not require more sleep than that, as long as I can get about 2 hours sleep in the middle of the week in the afternoon once. On weekends, I get an odd hour here or there and the usual 9:30PM PST until ....this time about 2:30am.


I think this makes me a bit more than casual, as I do not play more than one game at a time. Basically, during the day, raids or even instances are out obviously, so at lvl 60 I really will not get any meaningful content from the game at least for my future lvl 60 at that timeslot.

This leaves evenings. At the times I mentioned, my chances are not that great. They do not mean that I will never get to raid, but they *do* mean that a lot of the time, when I get to 60 I will have NOTHING to do with my capped character, since unless I somehow get into a raid (which will not be easy at that time, even if people are willing in theory), I will have no reason to play my character.


When I played D1 (3 years straight) and D2 (on and off for 5 years, 2 years straight starting from the Beta), I could just log in with my lvl 10 Barb and play. I could also log in with my lvl 50 Barb and play. I could also log in with my lvl 90 Barb and play and get items and beat down mobs. Not only that, but I could even log in with my lvl 99 Barb and play and have fun and find items to make my char more powerful. More importantly, I could play him anywhere, even after they nerfed the Barb to death. It was difficult, but possible nevertheless.


Yes, there is content for the casual gamer or even a semi-casual gamer. Content like there is content in the cliffnotes from a real book.



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