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The gamer must play a lot of different games;
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The gamer must have professional gaming skills;
- The gamer must play ‘their game’ for hours each day;
- The gamer must play MMOs;
- The gamer must put their heart and soul into their gaming;
- The gamer just wants to win;
- The gamer has played games of all types for many years;
The gamer must play a lot of different games;
hardcore gamer I fail horribly, as I only dabble in other games like
SWTOR and LOL. (Hardcore 0 – 1 Casual)
The gamer must have professional gaming skills;
I raid a a respectable level on a below average server and am OK at PVP. But I AM a keyboard turner although I do keybind 95% of all my abilities. I can hardly be defind as a professional skilled gamer. (Hardcore 0 – 2 Casual)
The gamer must play ‘their game’ for hours each day;
Yeah I play WoW too much most days, no way I can claim casual here. (Hardcore 1 – 2 Casual)
The gamer must play MMOs;
erm got me again, infact I really only play MMOs . (Hardcore 2 – 2 Casual)
The gamer must put their heart and soul into their gaming;
I play too much, blog about WoW, am a raid leader, guild officer and listen to hours of podcasts each week all about WoW and gaming in general. (Hardcore 3 – 2 Casual)
The gamer just wants to win;
For me I want to win but I also want to have fun. Losing lessens fun and I’m sure nobody plays to lose. But If I had to choose winning all the time and not having fun or just having fun and winning half the time I’d choose winning half the time and fun. (Hardcore 3 – 3 Casual)
The gamer has played games of all types for many years;
Well a simple read through my gaming resume prooves that, but then so has my sister, my Mum, my Dad and my wife so while I notch one up for hardcore here, it really proves 1 of 2 things, this measure is bad or we’re all hardcore gamers. (Hardcore 4 – 3 Casual).
So there we have it a narrow margin win for me being a hardcore gamer. However, scoring my Mum against these criteria she also scores a 4-3 win for being hardcore. The ones she differs on to myself are that she plays many games but no MMOs.
Do you think there are other criteria that could be used? I’d love to know how you scored and how you rated me from my gaming resume.