When did the term "hardcore and casual gaming" become a fashion?

[Johann]

HappySqurriel said:

One_touch_KO said:

HappySqurriel said:

I don't know the exact origins but the first time I encountered the "Hardcore" and "Casual" debate was in Dark Age of Camelot ...

I started playing soon after it launched because several friends from school were playing it and (for some reason) they decided to play on the Hibernia realm. Unfortunately, Hibernia was the last realm created and it was (obviously) rushed and there were several classes which were poorly balanced and full of bugs ... This was made worse (in part) because as they fixed bugs they generally created more balance issues.

Now (much like most modern MMO games) the only way to bring issues up to the developers was to post on web-forums and any issue that was brought forth to the developers to improve Hibernia tended to devolve into the "Hardcore" and "Casual" debate. The reasoning at the time was that younger (less experienced) MMO players tended to play on Hibernia because it was more brightly colored and "Hardcore" MMO players favoured Midguard because it was a much darker realm.

Yea, but I bet in those times the conversation woudn't go like this:

"Hey folks, let's play a bit of Dark Age of Camelot when we arrive?"

"Yeah, that's so freakin hardcore. I can't wait to play it. What about some chess while the bus doesn't arrive?"

"What? That casual crap? Hell noooo"

See what I mean??

 

Outside of a few people who have probably never seen a girl naked, I don't really think that really happens on a large enough scale to really be considered fashionable.

I know this is completely off topic, but why nerds-that-don't-get-laid jokes have to always be the answer for everything? Is it really that common to assume that sex makes people less ignorant?