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Anyways thank you for the comments i do appreciate them and was able to piece together how the community defines a casual player. i do see that my line of thought was parallel to what most said- but i did push the limits a bit by claiming that casual players play everyday for 4 hours on purpose just to fact check that you and i are on the same page.
Hopefully i'll return with a better statement next time.
Cheers o/
started last month
i even leave my game alt tab at times..
no worries. I wasn't sure until I read some of the other comments, then I gathered it wasn't. thanks for clearing it up though.
My only real purpose on playing this game is to have fun, socialize, interact,... basically become part of this little "society". Guild is like my family, friends are friends, party/raid members are comrades, etc. That's what I'd call casual, who just plays simply because they want to play or are more socially inclined.
Along the way I happen to pick up things to gear up and all, and I support the game by paying for stuff on store because I enjoy playing.
I guess it really does look like I'm more on the dedicated side. But majority of the time I'm online I usually just do something else on my second monitor unless there's an event going on.
No way I'd be on hard core side though. I'm pretty average if you ask me;;;
pay 2 win
grind, farm 2 win
dramas
pvp, gvg maniac
score run, meter run, min-max research
achievement/special title tryhard
The focus of a casual is recreation. This is for example careing more about putting snow tires on your car than the royal dragon tokens. BiS has a nice sound like a chime, but being a longterm casual you'd never really long for it.
This doesn't mean that a casual per se is bad player. I guess there are some thousand more former progress players like me who left WoW and found a comfort zone in Tera where you play without pressure, without DKP, without DPS spreadsheets, without raiding schedules and so on.
A casual just focuses on few aspects, and even they could change. So you have e.g. dungeon casuals, event casuals, BG casuals, gold-making casuals and so on.
Given the basic nature of Tera, I have to follow most of the above posters: for a casual is fashion >> gear.
My wardrobe is constantly filled but nevertheless I often don't find anything to wear.
I view myself as semi-competitve & semi-casual. I usually just PVP for fun while learning how to get better at my class in both PVE and PVP. I plan on making a guild in FF soon for PVP & PVE, Casual & Competitive players. If people like PVE or PVP only, so be it. Who the * are these tryhard PVP/PVErs to say that either side is garbage just because they don't like one aspect of an MMO. One of my biggest pet peeves about most MMOs communities.
When I played Dragon Nest, I mainly started off doing PVE because I usually sucked alot at pvping or fighting games. Since I started to develop the know-how for pvp, then I went dual PVP&PVE since then for all the MMOs I played so far. This would be an exception for Blade & Soul, since I would've been grinding in both Tera and B&S, but since I dropped B&S within the first 2 weeks of playing it, I only grind in TERA and do some light grinding in Dragon Nest to build up some gold while managing my overall gameplay time at a healthy amount. I would do the hardest content in both games, but my system can barely handle both games with so many graphical effects all over the place with them turned all the way down.
If this makes me casual okays... time to throw a monkey wrench at that thought. Unlike most people I generally play TERA for about 12 or more hours a day. Right now, that I can do... will eventually change, but yes...
I don't consider myself casual, and just because someone isn't trying to be decked out in +15 vm7 gear doesn't make them casual, just means they play TERA to have fun and enjoy their vacations or time off. Not for bragging rights or to be elitist, or whatever...