Gamer lables -- why

[Souto_Nami]

In general, people want to beat difficult things for the challenge, gear and other rewards, it's only the casuals who believe that the evil raiders do it for e-peen and to look down on you. If you actually think the raiding community cares enough about you to go beat raids just to look down on you, you have issues.

FFXIV enforces this distinction too. Alex Savage is the only hardcore content in the game, everything else is casual/easy and there is currently no midcore content at all.

You realize by calling out "casuals"by not only generalizing but by assuming that " casuals" don't have the drive or skill to want to beat difficult things that you're making the problem between the two worse right? Though I will say the game does indeed extremely separate the difference between easy and hard content.

On topic though, I don't mind categories as humans we're going to do it regardless. What I mind is the words we choose to categorize each other. Instead of naming different gamers by the free time they have to play games and leaving it at that, we also (stupidly) tie it into skill.
Instead of the term casual depicting someone who has a busy life and plays games at a casual pace. It gets tied to difficulty, not being able to play difficult games, or lacking the skill to do so. The term hardcore is also just wrong to depict someone with more free time and gets tied to having greater skill which is wrong. The only difference is in how quickly either one will go through a difficult game.

For example, I only have about an hour to two a day to play games. It took me about two months to beat each of the souls game but not because I lacked skill, I lacked time.

I don't know what people like you do to have such less free time. 1 or 2 hours is not enough for me to do anything meaningful, I simply wouldn't bother.

Work and family time for the most part. "Anything meaningful" varies as I'm obviously not beating a boss in every sitting but with a small amount of thinking about what I'd like to do or where I'd like to head every day helps to always move forward and never stall. I honestly have more fun in these small sittings than when I have hours to play as I find it easier to get frustrated in long sittings when I get stuck on a difficult point. Feels I have more freedom to think on what went wrong or what I (or in an mmo case what the party) could do different to clear the content.