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Profrektius on 15 February 2017
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Intrinsic said:

I think if you go to any gaming forum on the planet you would notice the same thing.

Casuals don't bother with gaming forums. More so a sales website.

I find that the casuals I know basically have FIFA consoles. In most cases they don't even know about 80% of the games I am interested in.

I find that the casuals I know basically have RPG consoles. In most cases they don't even know about 80% of the games I am interested in.

mjk45 said:

No we do not represent "gamers nor does the majority represent them, why because the majority isn't some ubiquitous entity , it changes over time and depending on what section you are looking at

 What we do have here is not some authoritive body that dictates what is or isn't canon in the world of games, but simply a group of gamers who's knowledge of gaming and sales is above the norm , and like all hobbiest's we like having a platform to discuss our hobby.

I was simply reffering to what is the most popular in the video game industry, and assigned it this value of "majority". I fully agree with the second paragraph.

Intrinsic said:
Profrektius said:

I completely agree on this as far as yearly titles go. Again I will repeat what I have said before on this thread, is that all of us want to feel like the way we are playing games, is somehow superior to those who are passionate about sports games or shooters, or any genre/game we don't play. It is simply natural to want to satisfy our egos and, it is very much a subconscious process we don't actively have as much control over.

I believe it simply comes down to being involved with video games, and how passionate you are about them, regardless of what games you play. And it can be difficult to judge how passionate other communities are if you are not part of them, and often results in looking at them in a more negative light, because of intergroup bias.

Edit: If a person spends 600 hours on an RPG, or 600 hours on Fifa, I would argue they are just as passionate about their game.

Casuals spending more on those yearly titles or the odd GTA game doesn't make them not casuals.

Think  of it this way, casuals are primarily why games like COD sell so much. Gamers like us that you will find on forums is why games like Dark souls, Ni-Oh....etc can evn exist.

So basically, you are saying that we are the superior gamers who can decide what games are and are not considered hardcore, and those who put insane amount of time, dedication, effort into games not from those categories, are casuals?

Edit: ^^^ Not to be taken as something overly serious. This is a matter of semantics after all.