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0 pointsttt_14y ago0 comments

>> World of Warcraft was designed from the beginning with casual in mind.

How are 5h-8h raids designed with casual in mind?

Specially considering that any item you just happen to pick-up casually (as in not in raids) is plain garbage next to those and it matters a whole lot in a pvp-oriented game?

I disagree completely. WoW is designed from the ground up for addiction.

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yvdriess14y ago· 1 in thread

Because the only thing you risk doing those bullshit molten core raids was time; your own and that of your fellow party members. The whole point I was trying to make is that focusing on being a time sink and addicting is not what makes a game 'hardcore'.

saraid21614y ago

Actually, one of the original distinctions between "casual" and "hardcore" was the amount of time put in. (See Jessica Mulligan's "Developing Online Games" from 2003.)

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