Dick Ward from XboxFocus.com writes:
"Hardcore gamers are typically self proclaimed, and always on the border of obsessive when it comes to games. They come in all shapes and sizes, all ages, colors and creeds, but have one thing in common – a deep love for gaming. Just as there is no genre that defines all games, there is no type of hardcore gamer that defines them all. For simplification, I've divided them into a few archetypes. Bear in mind, no one archetype will define a player - most gamers are a mix between the three."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
We are the hardcoriest bunch...I guess. But I know loads of core gamers too. And for the record, "core" is the dumbest and least original term I've ever heard.
I would have added some more classifications like the guy who plays more than anyone in the world, yet sucks a lot.
id say yea, Xbox owners are on average more hardcore than anyone else, but a good thing is we have a bigger diversification than other systems
Those are some pretty accurate statements. Sadly i dont fall into any of those categories, but for me that is a good thing.
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i think ms is not going for hardcore anymore i think there going for casual and rpg people, and maybe a little of bit of hardcore but there focus is on casual and rpg