Quote Originally Posted by Bled View Post
I'm not understanding peoples confusion with the definition of a hardcore game.. a casual game is typically distinguished by their simple rules and lack of commitment required so in contrast a hard core game would be the opposite. FF11 was not a casual game! why is that so hard to understand grind tastic or not it was still labeled as hardcore.
You are the first person I have ever heard label FFXI hardcore, I personally found it pretty dang easy, and I played what most people seem to think was the class that needed all sorts of skill, Bard, and I was mithra too boot, as I said in another thread, I routinely played drunk and no one ever knew.

a hardcore game is one that is easy to play difficult to master, FFXI was easy to play and easy to master...how hard was it to log on and wait...
wait for airships, wait for nm spawns, wait for ferries, wait for your party to finally form, wait for everyone to get the the camp, wait for everyone to finally stop arguing over which mobs to kill (why we always argued over this I'll never know, we all knew we'd be killing some form of crustacean), Kill one or two mobs, and oh look some one has to log cause it's dinner or something, and it's back to waiting...finally get fed up with the glacial pace of leveling and go do something else...which usually meant faking a D/C so I didn't have to give some lame excuse.

that's not hardcore...that's boring