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Is there are place for hardcore MMOs any more? (long post)

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2008-10-14 13:52:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...hardcore MMORPG, and it was very successful - nearly a decade ago now. Vanguard was by the same developer and was intended to be equally hardcore, but it was a bit of a flop. World of Warcraft, on the other hand, was designed with a more casual market in mind (and we all know how that one turned out). So does this mean that the hardcore...
 
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Implications with Classification of Hardcore and Casual

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2008-06-29 01:34:59 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...hardcore in relation to software, consoles and the complete gaming demographic. To begin with we ought to try and define both of these terms Casual Gaming - A style of video games made for gaming consumers who play at a relatively low (read: casual) frequency. These games are often very accessible, dispensable and simplistic in nature...
 
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Conduit Developer Dispels Myths About Wii Hardcore Gaming

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2009-01-08 16:00:38 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
...hardcore Wii market exists. And even though they claim its a gamers game, they think their first-person shooter will hook the casual crowd, too After speaking with the developers behind Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars and Deadly Creatures , two Wii games targeting hardcore gamers as well as casual ones, I also wondered what the folks working on...
 
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Unite casuals with the hardcore, dont separate them.

2008-03-28 16:18:57 by syncaine in Hardcore Casual
 
...hardcore overall players, the raiding elite of most other MMOs. As EVE statistics have shown, the majority of players stay in Empire space and tend to do the PvE elements of the game, mission running or high-sec mining. The key to EVEs amazing balance is that those Empire players (lets call them casuals) are not hurt by the raiding elite PvP...
 
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EA Sports: Hardcore Fans Shouldnt Fear Our New Casual Sports Approach

2008-05-22 18:00:19 by Patrick Klepek in MTV Multiplayer
 
...hardcore has been critical. Some members of EAs dedicated sports base have worried its a sign that EA is slowly ditching the hardcore for the casual. Hamlett contests this notion, however, and said EA is simply building another sports pillar for itself Hardcore fans are our base and our biggest fans, he said. Their opinions and seal of...
 
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Vegas Developer: Hardcore Shooter Market Too Narrow to be Viable

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2008-03-20 19:05:53 by Chris in Gaming Today
...hardcore shooter fix. In a LiveText Q&A with gamers recently, Vegas 2 developer Phil Therien was asked if there were any plans to release any of the more super-realistic shooters on the current wave of consoles I doubt we will ever go back to really hardcore only shooters. The market was too narrow for it to be a viable business choice. We...
 
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Who's "Hardcore" Anymore?

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2008-03-26 10:57:00 by SVGL in Sexy Videogameland
...hardcore" or "casual." Broadening gamer demographics and the fact that the arcade kiddos are grownups now makes those words pretty useless. The terms retain some usefulness in terms of labeling taste, albeit crudely -- Peggle is most assuredly a casual game, for example. But does that mean people who spend more than ten hours a week playing...
 
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Wii Developer Unsure How His Hardcore Game Will Sell

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2009-01-06 20:00:43 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
...hardcore crowd and takes a shot at Deadly Creatures Released in early December by Gamecock , Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars garnered praise for its audio (by Primus Les Claypool ), visuals, overall presentation, and a lot of times, for simply being a Wii title that isnt a mini-game collection I asked Dan Borth , CEO and creative director of...
 
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Sega: Hardcore gamers shouldn't be 'excommunicated' from Wii

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2008-03-06 00:00:00 by Ross Miller in Joystiq
...hardcore gaming on the Wii. In short, Jeffrey feels that Western publishers are making a mistake by ignoring the hardcore gamers who own a Wii Unfortunately, other than providing a tantalizing and hypothetical (i.e. not happening) assertion that Condemned would have been great to play with the Wii remote, Jeffrey made no clear commitments to...
 
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