What is a competative player?
What is a casual player?
Give me a definition for both without the bias or flaming please. I just want a clear definition for both if you could give me one.
Please try to have a civil discussion between yourselves and don’t let it degrade into a petty argument like I have witnessed in ALL other threads that like this.
Competitive: In it to win it.
Casual: To just have fun.
Enough with these stupid threads already. Here’s your explanation. One takes games more seriously than the other. There you go end of story.
Competitive = Flag football
Casual = using butterflies as the ball
> Competitive: In it to win it.
> Casual: To just have fun.
But in a slayer match aren’t we all in it to win it or is there still a differance between the two?
> > Competitive: In it to win it.
> > Casual: To just have fun.
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> But in a slayer match aren’t we all in it to win it or is there still a differance between the two?
Some people do anything to win, while others don’t really care if they win or lose.
> > Competitive: In it to win it.
> > Casual: To just have fun.
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> But in a slayer match aren’t we all in it to win it or is there still a differance between the two?
As I said, Casual players Don’t really care to much if they lose as long as they are having fun in the process.
> Competitive: In it to win it.
> Casual: To just have fun.
I trust that you’re not implying that competitive players don’t find fun in always playing to win.
> I just want a clear definition for both if you could give me one.
There is none.
The terms are very vague, and much of their meaning is informed by the context in which they’re used. They can be used as insults, compliments, or mere classifications. The nature of the epithet can vary widely even within those three categories.
They’re both a bit like the term “camping”: everyone thinks it has one meaning (theirs), yet it’s rare for any two people to use it the same way and refer to the same thing.
There was a good thread on the matter a while back. The answers here and the answers there may help you get a better sense of the terms, even if it’s not possible to learn an exact meaning for any of them.
I hate these classifications. There are times I want to play competitively and do everything I can to win. In Halo 3, I played to win and get my rank as high as I could. I would train and train to perfect my game. During that time I felt more like a competitive player. During Reach, I had less of a drive to play like this mainly due to the lack of a ranking system. During this time I was more of a casual player.
I hate the idea of classifying yourself as either competitive or casual. Personally, I do not know where I would be categorized because I LOOOOVE competitive play but at the same time I enjoy just hanging out with my roommate going online to big team battle and seeing what awesome things we can pull off.
Don’t classify yourself as a casual or competitive player. Just play the way you want to and enjoy it.
Competitive: Think chess players competing to win.
Casual: Think checkers players playing with friends.
Gamers aren’t so simply defined into one of two categories. Anybody who thinks so are just simple minded and wish the entire world and the universe was black and white, no grey areas. It’s why school shootings are blamed on videogames, because some people wish the solution was that easy.
Competitive is just a desire to play and succeed. Everybodys a competitive player until they start greifing or pad their stats.
Casuals are people who only play one videogame when they have nothing else to do. They’ve done all their housework, their car’s still in the shop, their friends have already left for the bar and they don’t have the cash to order a taxi. So they dust off their kinect.
Its a grey area.
From what I see on these forums competitive players ONLY find it fun to win and casuals just have fun playing the game.
I don’t like the classification of people into the two groups I’m just trying to understand why they would devide themselves like that. When I play a game I usually play to win but I don’t understand why people complain so much about 343 adding adding new mechanics into the halo formula and a large portion of the community condone the game without even playing it. I’m very competative and I don’t like losing but I still have fun either way because I’m playing a game that I love and read a narrative that I enjoy.
By this forum’s definitions: Competitve plays to win, casuals play for fun.
IMO, though, “competitive player” is just a term some people use to differentiate themselves from the “common” player. By this I mean, the people who act like there is, in fact, a clear, distinguishable line between casual and competitive.
Truth is, there’s very, very, very few casuals who aren’t also competitive. Competitive people here seem to view all casuals as those few people who spend the whole game looking at the views and teabagging each other.
> Casuals are people who only play one videogame when they have nothing else to do. They’ve done all their housework, their car’s still in the shop, their friends have already left for the bar and they don’t have the cash to order a taxi. So they dust off their kinect.
This is really the true defining category that is casual, but most people on these forums thing casuals are people who play Halo for fun, and don’t think that Hard core or competitive gamers could fit under same category as the so called ‘casuals’ they keep on complaining about.
This is one of the only forums I see all the Competitive vs. Casual BS, I grew up gaming, all my fiends are gamers, I competed in UT tournaments back in the day, and I’m usually in the top 3 in most MP games, yet I have never called myself a “Competitive” or a “hardcore” gamer, I just call myself a Gamer.
I really want Halo back on the PC, because I really can’t stand most of the console community.
> This is one of the only forums I see all the Competitive vs. Casual BS, I grew up gaming, all my fiends are gamers, I competed in UT tournaments back in the day, and I’m usually in the top 3 in most MP games, yet I have never called myself a “Competitive” or a “hardcore” gamer, I just call myself a Gamer.
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> I really want Halo back on the PC, because I really can’t stand most of the console community.
I think the same way but all I want to know is why they would divide themselves as a community when its better for it as a whole to cooperate and not have flame wars against one another.
> > This is one of the only forums I see all the Competitive vs. Casual BS, I grew up gaming, all my fiends are gamers, I competed in UT tournaments back in the day, and I’m usually in the top 3 in most MP games, yet I have never called myself a “Competitive” or a “hardcore” gamer, I just call myself a Gamer.
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> > I really want Halo back on the PC, because I really can’t stand most of the console community.
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> I think the same way but all I want to know is why they would divide themselves as a community when its better for it as a whole to cooperate and not have flame wars against one another.
Because most of the people who divide the community between the two groups are people who think they’re entitled to the game, and if the game isn’t being made per what the want and/or expect, they blame the casauls or competitives. I miss the PC community, there was very rarely any of this Competitive vs casaul bull crap. There wasn’t any of this “I’m level 50, I’m better than you, I know more about the game” bull crap, none of the “you have a low k/d” crap, and zero “you suck at Halo.” malarkey. Hell the forums I hung out on didn’t even have any of the “PC vs Xbox” BS, some times we had the Mac vs PC debate, but that was it.