Malstrom email response: The Sick Obsession of Culture in the Game Industry

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HappySqurriel said:

This article has given me a thought about something we constantly see discussion about on this forum ... "Casual" vs. "Hardcore" gamers.

No matter how much longer a person has been a gamer for, how much more time or money they spend on gaming, or how good of a gamer they are they are a "Casual" gamer simply because of the games they choose to play; and the kinds of games that make you a "Casual" gamer are games which do not contribute to "Gaming Culture" as Malstrom defines it.

On top of that there is a disturbing similarity to how the elitest snobs who consider themselves "Cultured" make (very negative) assumptions about the "Unclutured/Unwashed Masses", and how the "Hardcore Gamers" make (very negative) assumptions about the "Casual Gamers ".

 

Yeah I noticed that a while back, as I've commented on how PC gamers used to (and the die hard now) rip on console gamers, while these console gamers are broken up wanting to fight each other but now the "hardcore" seem to take the elitist approach to "casual" gaming.