Maybe it's time for a casual "strike" if not complete departure.

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The "filthy casual" mindset is a bleed over of toxicity from WoW refugees. Just blacklist them and move on.

I'm a casual who left WoW for a number of reasons, chief among them being that the game took a pretty stark shift 5 or 6 expansions ago to 'treadmill or die', and everything surrounding that was basically boiled down into something resembling a mobile game. Kinda why the focus on raiders in FFXIV leaves a bad taste in my mouth--I play MMOs to relax, if I wanted to grind down my frontal lobe on the 1 grit sandpaper of a progression treadmill, I'd go play competitive Valorant or something equally miserable.

The MMO genre in general is dying, and it's probably one of the saddest rise and fall stories of the Information Age. We probably won't get something like it again until NerveGear becomes a thing.

We're still unironically using the phrase "WoW refugee" in the year of our lord 2025?

I feel like it's still a good term for anyone who left WoW sometime in the 2019-2021 period.

Especially funny given that anyone and everyone who plays both WoW and FFXIV is playing WoW these days because the game is in a much better state than FFXIV is.