At this point in the game, "rushing" is not a valid argument.

[Johnist]

Every New MMO launches with either No or Limited End Game Content. Very Few games get an End Game Content boost 3 months after they are released, and planned Content releases on the same period... In any other game, when they release a new class, you'd need to create a new character (and pay more money). In ARR, when a new class comes out, JOIN IT'S GUILD and Rock On!

Just because you hit 50 doesn't mean you're out of content. Have you mastered your class? (Most FATE Grinders have not)
Have you gotten the Crossclass skills that carry over to your Job for maximum damage output?
Do you feel the flow of the water, wind, and earth as a Conjurerer (and pray to the Twelve that the next Job Patch adds GEOMANCER as a DPS Role for CNJ, with it being CNJ 30 + THM 15)?

[Darklordkjell]

Played since beta, still not past level 31 as THM/BLM. I guess I want to enjoy the most out of this game without getting burned out. I just don't need to level as fast as I can. The content will stay there for a long time.

[Ignnis]

Casual is being used as a VERY broad term.

Casual, today, means any of these things:
- You play 2-24 hours a week
- You LITERALLY stop to smell the roses or watch the sunsets ingame(someone in this very thread said that, too)
- You are terrible at the game
- You have no desire to better yourself
- You hate PvP
- You want everything handed to you easily
- You don't like to do dungeons or end game content
- You don't devote your life to the game

A casual is any of the above. This isn't about who is casual and who is not. All those people can be considered casuals, and they ARE considered casuals. Texhnolyze IS a casual. That's certainly not hardcore.

Wait so just be because I don't like pvp I'm a casual? Well excuuuussseeeeee meeeeeee for wanting to avoid the most toxic part of the community. Oh and I only have one class to 50 and two others below 16 I just enjoy playing the game at a slower pace than you, bite me.

[Trystan]

I will never understand, why people who love to Focus on ONE class and Endgame-Raiding only... play new MMOs.

Is the "I was one of the first" so much more important compared to having content?

If you want to have a big endgame content, join a MMO that is >1 Year after release. You have less bugs, more features and more content.

New MMOs will never ever satisfy you - and you should know that by now. How often do you have to make the same mistake over and over again until you notice that?

[homunyan]

I play every day and I think the current pacing is fine, the problem is that important end game content is missing and it shows. Without Crystal Tower there's no proper way to gear up for Bahamut's Coil (which is designed for ilevel 80). Tomestones are, as indicated by their relative scarcity and weekly limits, clearly meant to SUPPLEMENT the gear you get from drops but right now they're the ONLY way to get gear at all acceptable for raiding. If Crystal Tower was out right now people would have: another way to get tomestones of mythology and, a way to get ready for Bahamut's Coil that is actually appropriate to their gear level instead of running story dungeons designed for people who just hit 50 over and over again. The game really should have been delayed until CT was finished since right now there's a huge gap in progression and it shows.

[texhnolyze]

Wait so just be because I don't like pvp I'm a casual? Well excuuuussseeeeee meeeeeee for wanting to avoid the most toxic part of the community. Oh and I only have one class to 50 and two others below 16 I just enjoy playing the game at a slower pace than you, bite me.

he said any of those things, not all of them

[Azazela]

Played since beta, still not past level 31 as THM/BLM. I guess I want to enjoy the most out of this game without getting burned out. I just don't need to level as fast as I can. The content will stay there for a long time.

I'm not really sure what content you have been doing for 2 months in a level 30 envronment. I got to 15 in about 6 hours of just questing, nothing else. That's without the armory high class bonuses.

[Shirai]

I'm not really sure what content you have been doing for 2 months in a level 30 envronment. I got to 15 in about 6 hours of just questing, nothing else. That's without the armory high class bonuses.

I too am quite curious what you've been doing in the game.
Please do not consider this an attack, I am genuinely curious as I started playing two and a half weeks after retail and I consider myself extremely casual when it comes to leveling pace.

[Ignnis]

he said any of those things, not all of them

I listed 2 of the things. I know he said if your any of these your considered a casual, I know, I can read :0

I would label a casual as someone how takes a LOT of time in the game, generally completing it at half or less of the speed of a normal player.

[Meleoffs]

Despite this game having an awful community, I find what keeps me here is my FC. Never has a game been able to do that. I have 4 50s on famfrit (first set of new servers) so I'm by no means casual.