Why are the gaming preferences of this community different from the general population?

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Profrektius said:

Goddbless said:

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I wouldn't call someone who likes CoD or yearly sports games a casual as a lot of them spend more money and time playing games than most "hardcore" gamers. I've been on this site for years and I've noticed some gamers will hype a game up for months prior to release and when it finally releases they don't even buy it. Yet they will make posts and dispute the metacritic scores for that game versus a game from a competing console. To me that is more of a casual since you're not really playing the games. I would call someone who can tell you the hundreds of differences between the last six Madden games a hardcore gamer. I know guys that spend hundreds of dollars on VC for NBA 2K games every year and also spend thousands on the MYNBA2K companion app. I wouldn't consider those guys casual gamers in the least. 

This forum has people that will buy every new Tales of game, Final Fantasy, Persona, Fire Emblem etc. We call them real/hardcore gamers but then turn our noses up at those that purchase every new CoD, Madden, 2k, GTA, etc. and call them casual. That's just the nature of this particular site. Most here are comfortable with things that way so that's how it will stay.

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.

You know, you try to argue that since some people play the games passionately, they all do. Which isn't the case. The games you play don't make you a hardcore gamer or casual gamer. It's just that some games have more casual gamers playing them than the others. 

I don't know why are you bringing up wanting to feel superior, as nobody else is bringing it up.