Player Classification

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Basically a lot of it is to make people who do things like ultimates or always having a perfect rotation as "being better at the game" but the thing is, they kinda aren't. Rotations are rarely important in most of the game and even messing up isn't really losing much DPS, add in rarely is there a time limit in stuff in this game that is needed because well that's just really boring.

FFXIV isn't really about skill, most boss fight mechanics are basically just a big puzzle game. It's all about memorization and knowing where to be, which isn't entirely hard. The word 'casual' has always just been used as an insult towards anyone who doesn't meet a specific standard and the word 'hardcore' is just toxic players who think they're entitled to being recognized as superior because they know how to do one content. Imo a hardcore player is someone who invests in a game, for instance I would consider myself hardcore because I've put over 2K hours into the game, I'm omni-90 in almost everything but a few crafting jobs, calling this dedication to the game 'casual' because I'm not dedicating myself to doing coils of bahamut ultimate or I'm not running savages every day is quite frankly silly and ridiculous.

Like this isn't even a problem with FFXIV, this has generally been a problem with video game community for decades now, it used to be even if you were a girl you were a 'casual', I've seen pro-fighting game players called 'casuals' for playing a game they usually don't play like a Guilty Gear player playing Smash. Hell, used to be if you didn't always play on ultra max ball-breaking hard difficulty or wanted QoL changes you were labeled 'casual'

It's a silly classificiation and always has been.