"Casual" content thoughts

[HyoMinPark]

People seem to fail to recognize that casual players make up the bulk of FFX!V's subscription funding. Trying to personal play-syles onto others in DF has just been hurting the community.
Personally I find this game has gotten so anti-social recently, I feel like I may as well be playing a single player game.

People can be casual without being inherently lazy. Casual =/= laziness. And, sadly, that is the connotation that “casual” has anymore, because people use it in arguments like this trying to defend poor/lazy play. Whether you are intending to do that or not, I can’t say, so I apologize if that’s not your intention, but a lot of other people have used “casual” in arguments like: “this game is made up primarily of casual players so stop trying to make things harder so that casuals can do it” or “make more content for casuals and that casuals can do”.

There is also the failure to see that there is a middle ground in terms of difficult: take some of the posts in this thread and others, where people claim that anyone asking for “harder” or “more engaging” content are automatically demanding that it be “Savage tier.” There is a middle ground between “easy mode/Baby’s First MMO” and “savage”. Making content “more engaging” is not going to “scare away” the casual players.

“Casual” means people that play this game infrequently or on a more casual basis: perhaps a couple hours a day/couple days a week, or the like. “Casual” does not mean “faceroll easy” or “lazy”, yet it tends to be used that way.

[HoodRat]

“Casual” means people that play this game infrequently or on a more casual basis: perhaps a couple hours a day/couple days a week, or the like. “Casual” does not mean “faceroll easy” or “lazy”, yet it tends to be used that way.

By that definition, I'm a casual. \○/

[JCharms]

There is also the failure to see that there is a middle ground in terms of difficult: take some of the posts in this thread and others, where people claim that anyone asking for “harder” or “more engaging” content are automatically demanding that it be “Savage tier.” There is a middle ground between “easy mode/Baby’s First MMO” and “savage”. Making content “more engaging” is not going to “scare away” the casual players.

“Casual” means people that play this game infrequently or on a more casual basis: perhaps a couple hours a day/couple days a week, or the like. “Casual” does not mean “faceroll easy” or “lazy”, yet it tends to be used that way.

I don't think there needs to be a middle ground as you call it, when different difficulties of said content exist.
As for defining casual, its so broad and varying that your attempt to categorise it falls way short.