I think the lines are blurred, making a blanket statement that you are a "hardcore" or this person is a "casual" is a disservice as it's more nuanced. For example I'm pretty "hardcore" consumer of fighting games. Having clocked 1000 plus hours in them, being within the culture and or searching up anything about them from history/art. But I'm a super "casual" when it comes to hero shooters/FPS games, I'm terrible and don't really engage with them, but I'll sometimes play one for fun casually every now and then. Games are more accessible more then ever now a days and game devs want sales for anyone to enter. Games like Ghost of Tsushima, Zelda, Gears of War are very easy and accessible games for anyone to enjoy. They can play with it in any manner from a completionist/ min max way or for another to play it to roll credits and be satisfied with out anything else. I don't think being hardcore or casual into anything is a bad thing, its just people tend to give them a misplaced negative connotation. That mind set needs to go.
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