Another lost level 60

[Arnulf]

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I don't buy the argument that anyone that takes a character to cap in WoW is not a casual player.  It is simply too easy to cap in this game.  Blizzard takes the money of the casual gamer just the same as the hardcore. [...]
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That makes me think. What exactly is a casual gamer in this context?

Someone who plays every evening for only half an hour? Someone who plays for only 4 hours max per week? Someone who does that and stays to the game for, let's say, two years?

I mean I came back to Diablo 2 every now and then, while I never got a character over 74 I made a plethora of them. I came back to D2 because there was nothing else at the moment that took my fancy. And the instant the first blue thing dropped I was hooked again. Although my playing style was at times casual, it sometimes took the turn to the hardcore playing style. With creating characters specially built around certain items, etc.

To come back to the matter at hand, I would say that someone who plays only for half an hour maximum a day, but does this for two years straight, that someone is a hardcore player to me.

A casual player in my eyes would be someone who plays the game maybe for two months and caps one character, maybe two. Then cancels his subsription and moves on to the next game.

-Arnulf