What is Midcore? Why does it matter?

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I almost think we should just ditch the terminology altogether; There's enough discourse on these forums to demonstrate that casual/midcore/hardcore are not only subjective, but also regularly change definitions respective to the scope of what is being discussed.

For example, all three terms (Casual, midcore, hardcore) can be invoked to describe different levels of savage+ raiding groups, and tend to be based on time commitment, skill-level and ambition. Yet, when we're talking about the full scope of the game, the terms are almost always applied instead based on what types of content someone is interested in. This creates a lot of confusion, willful and otherwise, wherein people aren't operating with shared definitions of the terms they're mutually using.

I've started to just say things like "We need more content like X" or "Content like X but with the difficulty of Y" because the subjectivity around 'midcore' is too confusing in many cases.

I'm not a fan of pigeonholing these terms, so the thread title is mostly to annoy people. (sorry not sorry) lol

I just know I used to have content to do, and now I don't. Nothing feels engaging as someone that doesn't want to mindlessly grind out materials, craft, fish, repeat boring dungeons with boring rotations. I need excitement with rewards, but without forced commitment, and allows for dynamic and quick coop.