How casual will it be.

[verilee]

You need to count other factor in, as people are getting older, have their real life, unlike when you were a kid and could play game 24/7. This often is a huge factor, and people are blaming new games not being interesting, while you just't can't repeat same experience you had with d2, because it was in the past, when you were lot younger.

I hunted up my password and suffered through "old user/old forum" login spam just to respond to this one post. Bravo fellow forum poster, for you have nailed on the head what *so many* gamers fail to understand:

1) Games and entertainment generally get better over time.
2) People change. People's perceptions change.
3) People revolve around the sun, not the other way around.

Thank you for posting this more succinctly than I just did.

[Hrus]

I hope the game could be played casually. With work, wife, and another hobbies, I can't play it 24/7 like a student I once was. I only hope I will not have difficulties joining the games because I don't have "proper" gear and "not enough MF".
One of the best things on D2 was, that I could play it alone, I could play it only 10 minutes (few runs, or progress to next waypoint), so it didn't tie my time much...

[Karpalo]

That's the beauty. Diablo games got both play styles covered. There are no raid resets etc. You can play it at your own pace and still get meaningful sense of progress. On the other hand even if you go balls deeps 24/7/52 and literally breathe and live the game, the odds still are that you won't ever complete even that one perfect character who has BiS gear and max tier gems in every slot.

That is if you are not willing to spend 20k euros for those said items.

[raveharu]

If you want to play at your own pace, make a private game.

Problem solved thread close.

[Peepie]

I hope they make an ingame NPC for playing bejeweled or something so i dont have to alt tab. Now that would be casual!

[marshmallow]

The whole MMO thing has passed me by so I'm pretty ignorant of the social dynamics at play but I've always wondered how WoW could have any casual players, especially at this point in time where to catch up to the latest Xpac you'd need to have paid hundreds of dollars on top of paying 15 bucks a month to just play the game. That's pretty hardcore.

[Raesene]

The whole MMO thing has passed me by so I'm pretty ignorant of the social dynamics at play but I've always wondered how WoW could have any casual players, especially at this point in time where to catch up to the latest Xpac you'd need to have paid hundreds of dollars on top of paying 15 bucks a month to just play the game. That's pretty hardcore.

When I played WoW, my perception of how most players defined "casual" seemed to be: "a player who doesn't raid." For some, the definition stretched to: "a player who is bad at raiding."

My guild even had a rank named "casual" for members who did not choose to raid. They were logged in more often than the raiders...

[Noodle]

The whole MMO thing has passed me by so I'm pretty ignorant of the social dynamics at play but I've always wondered how WoW could have any casual players, especially at this point in time where to catch up to the latest Xpac you'd need to have paid hundreds of dollars on top of paying 15 bucks a month to just play the game. That's pretty hardcore.

I'm a casual WoW player. I log on probably twice a week, for about an hour each time. Have a level 85 character, too. Took me a lot longer than it would through dedicated play, but it's very possible.

[marshmallow]

I'm a casual WoW player. I log on probably twice a week, for about an hour each time. Have a level 85 character, too. Took me a lot longer than it would through dedicated play, but it's very possible.

But you pay 15 bucks a month to play a video game. That's like a religious fanatic calling someone casual because they only flagellate themselves once a week.

[Raesene]

But you pay 15 bucks a month to play a video game. That's like a religious fanatic calling someone casual because they only flagellate themselves once a week.

$15 a month is not that much money for some entertainment. It certainly doesn't upgrade him into some sort of hardcore video game fanatic.