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It's really very simple. They called their raiding "hardcore" because, for years, people in games like WoW were wishing for a hardcore game. WoW had become too "easy". Since then, people say the game is too hardcore, and obviously now everyone is a casual because you don't want to be hardcore. It's all subjective hullabaloo. Games aren't hardcore or casual, and if I was going to apply those labels, it certainly wouldn't be to Wildstar, which has a big tent approach to playstyle. I think the only reality of the situation is that Wildstar is pretty objectively harder than WoW, or at least requires more active concentration, so the MMO sphere started saying it was a game for hardcores. Sort of the way WoW used to be a cartoon game for kids who didn't want the challenge of FFXI or EVE, or the way EVE is a game for accountants which should come with a copy of Excel. There's a grain of truth to all of them, but they're hardly fair or accurate to the games.


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