blegs1992 said:
Yes, but a gamer can play a specific game hardcore or casually, depending on how they have the most fun with the game. For example, I may play Wii Bowling for 20 minutes, so I am playing it casually. Yet, my grandparents and their friends can play Wii Bowling for a long time (last Thanksgiving they made it to 2 hours!), so they are playing it hardcore. Heck, sometimes playing casual or hardcore can differ at different times because of the game. In Animal Crossing: Wild World, I may only play for about a half hour in the winter when all the "good fish" and "good bugs" are not around. But in the summer when all the beetles and good fish are around, I play for about 1 - 2 hours on a Saturday night. These examples prove that the line between hardcore and casual is very vague.
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Ok, but thats not what the OP was saying. Your is example is how a person plays the game that makes them hardcore. The OP's was what type of game it is makes the game hardcore.
"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."
"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."
