https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsq2t7sKvKo
There is a large undercurrent in gaming culture that bubbles from the surface, especially in recent years. In this episode, you'll see what it's all about, h

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/from-casual-to-core-a-statistical-mechanism-for-studying-gamer-dedication
The game industry tends to think of gamers as falling into one of two categories -- the hardcore and the casual. The characteristics that define these categories are usually vague and based on intuition and personal experience. Barry Ip proposes 15 variables that are key to distinguishing between the hardcore and the casual gamer, and ways of measuring each for a given player.

https://www.gamedesigning.org/gaming/gamer-types/
Games like those in the Total War franchise, Europa Universalis, Civilization, and Crusader Kings II are the bread and butter of the Armchair General. These players blaze trails through the global stage, attempting to use their guile, cunning, intelligence, and military might shape the face of the world they inhabit.

https://www.pcgamer.com/research-says-casual-and-hardcore-no-longer-accurately-describe-todays-gamers/
As you can see, the Conventional Player of yesteryear is the least common today, making up only 4 percent of all gamers (median age of 32 years), while the Time Filler is the most common at 27

https://www.techspot.com/news/80094-hardcore-casual-no-longer-adequate-defining-gamers-research.html
The Time Filler (27%) --- You play games to pass the time, when you have time, and you rarely touch a PC game. Interestingly, most of the respondents were The Time Filler --- the casual gamer of

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/casual-gamers-vs-hardcore-gamers
Even consoles such as Wii (erroneously considered to be casual) hosts games such as Pandora's Tower and Mad World, which are far from being casual games! So, we can not easily define casual vs hardcore gamers on the played game structures, on the quantity of time spent playing or on the platform used

https://hackernoon.com/the-difference-between-casual-gamers-and-hardcore-gamers-fk253trm
Read by Dr. One. I think the difference between the two all boils down on passion. Casual gamers only play games for fun. They think of games only as a sidetrack to keep them from boredom or stress. Say for example, studying for an exam. For some people, they want to relax for a bit to ease their minds from being too cramped up with information

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/what-men-and-women-consider-hardcore-gaming-are-not-the-same
The two main takeaways are that 1) Hardcore female gamers have different motivational drivers than Hardcore male gamers, and 2) Hardcore is more about breadth for female gamers and more about specialization for male gamers. The gaming community tends to define Hardcore using the male gamer lens, so there's inevitably a tautologous conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxhiVXal2XB7k3_BHIGTRyA
Welcome to the relaunch of The Gaming Anthropologist channel! I have been studying gaming culture and creating videos around the subject since 2009. In that time, I've come to understand that

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-300-introduction-to-videogame-studies-fall-2011/6a4fc234f2787f4239fa7dfda0f51fb2_MITCMS_300F11_session_10.pdf
Q. : Define hardcore players (vs. casual) Invest resources (time, games, hardware) Prefer genre/violent fictions (fictional w orlds) Plays large number of video games (define large - many different/many of the same (type)) Enjoys difficult games. Casual Player: MYTH positive pleasant fictions. 1. CMS.300 - Intro to Video Game Theory.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/11/29/246747168/hard-core-and-casual-gamers-play-in-different-worlds
For the hard core, gaming is the passion. Casual players enjoy games, yet they don't steep themselves in gamer culture rites like midnight openings. Still, as the gaming population grows, and gets

https://www.upstandinghackers.com/casual-vs-hardcore-gamer-which-one-are-you/
On the other hand, hardcore gamers are more likely to invest in premium game titles, expansions, and gaming hardware. This diversity in revenue streams has made the gaming industry financially robust. 3. Gaming Communities. Both casual and hardcore gamers have played a crucial role in building gaming communities.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/themidcoregamer/discussions/0/3247565033754098617/
Casual. This group mainly includes gamers who either 1. casually play games (only while doing something else or when idle) or 2. Casual gamers almost exclusively plays games that are considered "casual" like match-3, idle clickers, mahjong, solitaire, bubble shooters, etc, and exist - quite abundantly - on the mobile gaming platforms.

https://venturebeat.com/gbunfiltered/core-and-casual-whats-the-difference/
On average, core gamers spent 45.56 hours a week on video game related activities while casual gamers spent 33.49 hours per week. Looks like video games are a full time job for a lot of people

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSMS-07-2022-0134/full/html
Findings. There are two main findings. First, across PC and mobile participants, casual gamers (low playing frequency and duration) have firm purchase intention when they have a clutch experience, but flow experience hinders their purchasing intention.

https://gameinfohub.com/casual-vs-hardcore-gaming-player-habits-and-spending-habits-compared/
Spending Habits of Casual and Hardcore Gamers. According to a study by Newzoo, casual gamers spend an average of $63 per year on gaming, while hardcore gamers spend an average of $218 per year. Casual gamers are more likely to spend money on mobile games, with impulse purchases that are often cheap, such as power-ups, extra lives, and in-game

https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/ba1083/i_am_seriously_very_confused_by_the_term_casual/
It's sad we are in a binary Hardcore vs Casual now and that the term Casual slipped. Back in days, there were hardcore gamers like you describe, there were gamers in the large sense (what you describe mostly as casual now), people just playing a game and enjoying it.

https://www.cinemablend.com/games/Hardcore-Gamers-Casual-Gamers-Round-1-12733.html
Here's how it works. Hardcore Gamers Vs. Casual Gamers: Round 1. I have to say, this is our biggest battle yet. This isn't just a competition between better features or more players, this is a

https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/27ugeu/why_separates_a_casual_gamer_and_a_hardcore_gamer/
In a general sense, I think the difference between hardcore and casual gamers is passion, a hardcore gamer does not so much invest a certain amount of time to the hobby but certainly invests a lot of passion into it. A casual gamer plays games in much the same way a casual music fan just really listens to music from the top 40 station while

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Are-you-a-gamer-A-qualititive-study-on-the-for-and-Poels-Annema/817570828b3d2a83c0a135f45ad4861688292c53
The results obtained show that the conclusions when comparing between gamers and non-gamers depend on the method used to identify them, and that those of the gamified class have better performance, but there are no coincidences regarding motivation and satisfaction.

https://www.g2a.com/news/features/casual-hardcore-gamer/
A hardcore gamer has exactly one time frame for playing: Whenever-They-Can o'clock, each day, every day. If that's impossible due to duties like work or school, well, that's too bad for the duties. Casuals are, as the name suggests, much more casual about it. They might play nothing for two months and then spend hours, each day, all week

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hardcore%20Gamer
A person who devotes a large portion of their time towards gaming and gaming variations. A hardcore gamer might often attempt to optimize their playing style, often by the use of gaming gear or mods/addons; this practice is often common for casual gamers, but to some lesser extent. "A casual gamer is someone who schedules the game around their life, while a hardcore gamer schedules their life

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/136o2a/difference_between_casual_and_hardcore_gamer/
Casual Gamers typically only play 1-2 hours a day, and usually play games "just for fun". They usually play puzzle games, facebook/browser based games, etc. For most casual gamers, gaming is just one of many activities they like to do. Hardcore Gamers typically play more than a couple hours a day, and usually play games to get a sense of