Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Furthermore, why do you want to be defined? If you really needed to, Mirage's "game enthusiast" works or just regular gamer, there's no need to add an adjective to that. Furthermore, I usually say how gaming is something I do, it's not really who I am (can you catch that reference?) i don't understand why people want it to define them. But I considered myself a pretty big gaming when hardcore and casual meant what I used to take it as.
Was doing a bad job of making a point, there, really. Any classification system must be designed to handle all valid data. If you acknowledge only two gamer classifications, casual and hardcore, then every gamer out there must be a part of two groups. My description does not fall in either of the definitions given for either hardcore or casual. I have aspects of both, and some aspects that neither have. Either you have to expand your classification system to include more types (such as Mirage did with the "enthusiast" title), or you have to accept that trying to classify millions of people worldwide into two happy little demographics is just stupid.