I'm a mid-core player. I choose to not play end game. (What's the incentive?)

[Evangela]

I used to do BCoB before the nerf. It's not too difficult for me but it really takes a lot of time and efforts. Doing that at work is more than enough for me. When I come home I want to relax. If I have to feel like I'm working in a video game, I'd rather not playing it.

Playing games should be entertaining, not practicing 3-4 hours a day for 2 weeks in order to defeat one boss in the game. It's ridiculous. If I have to spend that much time and efforts, I'd rather do more works in real life so that I can get money for it.

[Zojha]

What is deciding being a Casual/Mid/Hard-core player? Playtime or content played?

It's incredibly muddled, really. Never even heard the term "mid-core player" before FFXIV.

I always thought a casual player is a player who, well...plays casually! With casual being defined as (Quoting Wikipedia):
"Happening by chance.
Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
Employed irregularly.
Careless.
Happening or coming to pass without design.
Informal, relaxed.
Designed for informal or everyday use."

So, I take from that casual players are low dedication players with an irregular gaming schedule - sometimes more, sometimes less. Not the kind of player who can commit to set schedules. Most likely using gaming as a side activity and likely to be found listening to music in the background and playing multiple games simultaneously, picking a random one they currently feel like for their sessions.

Hardcore in turn are very dedicated players. Gaming is a main activity and has a firm priority slot in the daily timetable in which they don't want to get disturbed from playing. These aren't just doing what they feel like, they have plans what to do on which day and have often planned in advance to prepare. They also typically play more than the average player, because they dedicate more of their free time to it and often don't play more than one game at a time in order not to spread themselves too thin.

That's my take on it. Mid-core is somewhere in the middle I suppose? I wager you can set "Casual" and "Hardcore" as endpoints of a dedication spectrum and then go along to stop anywhere to get a more realistic picture.

[Xiao_]

I used to do BCoB before the nerf. It's not too difficult for me but it really takes a lot of time and efforts. Doing that at work is more than enough for me. When I come home I want to relax. If I have to feel like I'm working in a video game, I'd rather not playing it.

Playing games should be entertaining, not practicing 3-4 hours a day for 2 weeks in order to defeat one boss in the game. It's ridiculous. If I have to spend that much time and efforts, I'd rather do more works in real life so that I can get money for it.

It really depends if you enjoy the learning process or not. If you don't enjoy that, it'll just feel like work for sure.

[Pasquale]

I've always been confused by this design choice by the devs. They want to make this game accessible to the mid-cores, and yet... the vertical cap itself is anti-mid core player. It's a pro-hard core system, because the only players who can ever be able to play the end game will be those who never stop playing... The rest of us, who do come and go, will always come back to see what little best gear we could work for, become 5 cents on the dollar. So why work for it at all?
.[/B]

LOL man you have usually 4/6 months to reach the Max ilv gear do you think that's not enough time xD? Also at some point midway during patches thry introduces the towers where you can get free stuffs to upgrade your equip.

[Critical-Limit]

Midcore was birthed because of the extremes FFXIV built with having brain dead dungeons that you can probably beat by spamming 1 skill.

To an instant jump of savage and EX.

There are people who feel things are either too easy or too hard for them. And they just sit there waiting for "what's just right"



Anyways this system yes is nice to new comers but it also creates a system where you have people who are thinking how to I have maximum things with least time wasted? So they make horizontal progression from glamour and mounts. And think why fight that monster when I can also beat it easier 3 months from now.

[alimdia]

The terms "casual" and "hardcore" can be used for two scenarios, time invested and type of content.

The first is barely used in the community, otherwise OP would be a hardcore player for dedicating 16 hours a day to this game (assuming 8 hours of sleep it means OP comes to this game when he wakes up and leaves when he goes to sleep). The second is the one people actually refer to when they talk about casual, midcore and hardcore, a casual player usually plays non-challenging content regardless of how little or how much they play, a hardcore player finds enjoyment in challenging themselves and more focused team play, while midcore also likes challenging content but less challenging than hardcore, something like a middle point between casual and hardcore.

So OP is a very casual player with a lot of free time (hardcore playtime), let's not try to abuse "mid core" as the new buzzword. If you want a good demonstration of what is midcore content go do Sophia EX or (usually) the first two raids in each raid wing.

[Mugiawara]

Seems to be your a hardcore casual...considering you've been here since 2011 and have barely even done some 2.x stuff.
I consider myself mid-core. I like doing the end-game dungeons and dip into raids, but I don't play all that much.
But it doesn't matter. You do you, you don't have to have a title lol just keep playing how you want I guess.

[Leogun]

So what's the problem? You log in, have fun, take a break and come back when you want.

If you want personal incentive to accomplish something, you're asking the wrong people posting here.

FYI, I'm the same way. I juggle various mmos (FFXIV, GW2, an anime kawaii game, BnS, and even got back into FFXI after not playing for over 10 years). It might be a tad selfish to ask a game to conform to my odd habits although the accommodations it does offer is appreciated.

[Derio]

Your not mid core, but your not casual. Sounds like you just waste alot of time in game. Even casuals do the relic or GS events and potd. And midcore players have done at least Alexander normal

[Elim]

lol, I consider myself causal and I'm on A11 savage. Ive cleared all endgame up to that point too. I'm casual because my group only raids 3 days a week for 2 hours at a time, and sometimes raids are cancelled due to work etc.

You could raid or do trials for pets and mounts. Those are incentives and relevent until you quit the game. Some of the mounts are awesome too.