Casual Gaming vs Non-Casual Gaming

Casual play for me would be anything I can start and and end in reasonable and pre-set time and requires not much pre-forming of teams and builds.

For me this would be any form of non-hard mode PvE gameplay except the elite areas.
And most of the HM missions when those fit in my pre-set time.
Even some easy vanquishing.

The pre-set time is what makes things casual for me.
If I have 30 mins available anything that fits in that period is casual.
If I have 2 hours, it would be anything that fits in that period.

Anything what needs organisation or more time than 2 hours would be non-casual for me.

Time means little as far as player type goes. Its what you do in the game. A casual player is someone who plays without direction or goals, they just log on and have fun. They are unlikely to finish campaigns or titles but when they do a /age they still have hundreds or thousands of hours racked up like everyone else. A average player progresses though the game with some direction and beats a decent portion of the game. A hardcore gamer beats most challenges in the game and does all content completely. It doesn't matter if you racked up 1000 hours in two years or two months, its what you have done with the time not how you fast or slow you rack up /age.

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I disagree and that's also the point made in the 2nd link I mentioned in my previous post (well, it seems the 3 replies after my post totally ignored that; would it be casual posting? )

I think both casual and "hardcore" gamers have goals, but: 1) for the casual gamer, they are pretty general (let's finish a NF mission or dungeon); 2) the casual gamer is not too bothered if he doesn't succeed, so long as he had fun playing; 3) the way/path to the goal is more important than reaching the goal, because that's where he gets most of his fun (I said most, a casual gamer can be happy to finish a campaign!)