Are casual gamers smarter than core gamers?

[lapan]

The average "casual" gamer actually ends up spending more. Companies like Gungho earn millions EACH DAY

 

[carnex]

When person takes something as serious hobbyist than that person is willing to put more money into it than person who is just casually doing something for whatever reason.

For example, if you are serious about tabletop wargames you will invest in large army, paint it in many cases etc. if you are casual you will buy cardboard cutout games or smaller skirmish ones even if you can afoord to spend hundreds ot thousands of dollars. It's the same with video games.

Some will buy newest CoD, some will play Loadout...

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

looks at recent 'free to play' games and the use of gambling terminology when referring to the best customers 'to acquire'

Nope, they have their share of morons as well.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Right before I get accused of flaming please here me out. Jim Sterling did something on this a while back. Core gamers seem to happily play $60 for a game, $15-25 for DLC then pay the same next year for the latest update.

You're forgetting that casual gamers sink hundreds, if not thousands of dollars into F2P titles like Candy Crush and Farmville. As irritating as the buy buy buy model of a core game is, it's nothing on paying continuously to access the content you've already got that dominates casual games.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Well, as a hardcore gamer who hasn't paid more than 20 quid for a game in years, doesn't buy DLC and has never become a wallet warrior on a free-to-play game i think you need to define 'smart' because my definition contradicts what you are exhibiting in your post

 

[Gankytim]

Elitism is a thing in games, play online for 10 minutes, look at any professional game community, look at DSP's comment section. They're literal meritocracies where the only way to get any form of status is skill.

If you can't handle the heat, maybe you should get out of the kitchen.

 

[Bombiz]

Elitism is a thing in games, play online for 10 minutes, look at any professional game community, look at DSP's comment section. They're literal meritocracies where the only way to get any form of status is skill.

If you can't handle the heat, maybe you should get out of the kitchen.

i don't think DSP is a good example since he's kinda a douche. at least from what I've seen

 

[Artaneius]

I'm a core gamer and I haven't paid 60 bucks for any game in MANY YEARS. I'll get games when their on sale on Steam etc. Most of my games are old PC games and emulated games, so if the video game industry crashes, won't hurt my feelings any. If anything it deserves it for betraying the core gamers that made them big in the first place. They shouldn't constantly try to appease the casual masses anyways.

 

[sageoftruth]

I dunno, I used to love core games but i find myself gravitating to the casual game, as weird as it sounds alot of them are quite addicting and you know 'fun'. I love playing redline racer, 8 ball pool and criminal case on facebook, as it has tons of replay value and costs nothing, hundreds of hours of entertainment for free vs 10-15 hour AAA title.

Yes maybe I'm weird but It just feels to me that AAA is going into a gradual and slow decline, with only a very few titles being the exception.

When was the last time we had the 'wow' factor?

It does make a bit of sense. I don't play many mobile games, but I guess the fact that they don't feel the need to have a plot, demanding graphics, or anything else that can make core games slow and cumbersome is definitely a plus. One decent alternative is the indie scene.