Hardcore... How would you define it?

[Ryios]

So if you log in, run the hardest content in the entire game, and then log out until tomorrow when you plan to do it again? You my friend are actually CASUAL. The guy who runs all the roulettes + does a little RP + some crafting for shiggles and runs some dungeons on an alt? That's the HARDCORE one.

Not in FFXIV, SE Forces everyone to be casual by that definition because you can only get one primal weapon a week and can only run bcb once. So if you clear bcb in 50 minutes, then knock out the 3 primals in 30 minutes, and run CT in 60, and High Level Duty Finder to cap, bam your done for the week. There is no reason to run stuff except to help people past that point, or farm accessories on primals. If you have all the said accessories on all your jobs theres nothing to do, thus have been forced to be casual because you can't rerun bcb.

For a game to support true hardcore play, it needs to have content that is so Epically hard, that it requires massive time dumps. Everything in this game can be cleared in a night in 2 hours.

For us, we still have turn 5, but once it goes down, it will go down faster the next week. And then we'll clear it all in one night.