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Leelongy73
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1 year ago

'Casual players' - a misinterpretation?

I wonder if the term 'casual player' is being, and has been, misinterpreted? For some, the term 'casual player' will mean a person who only plays one to four (for the sake of an example of a low number of) matches per day. For others, 'casual player' will mean non-competitive, ie they like to only play (any number of) games against AI opponents and have no interest in playing online against real people. 

If the second definition is more accurate, then a lot of posts around the number of Squad Battle / Rivals games, become clearer (or make even less sense!). More importantly, if would mean that EA has either accidentally 'misread the room' and given users some things that the majority didn't actually want, or used such a misinterpretation to justify certain changes to appease a minority (but very influential) number of pros and/or YouTubers. 

Hopefully the above post is coherent and makes some sense, though I'm currently only operating on one cup of coffee!

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  • @Leelongy73 I think there is two sides to it. It might be hard for some to understand what you are saying but I’ve been in enough threads this year to understand it. There really isn’t a right or wrong answer.

    To me casual doesn’t mean skill it means time. Others say casuals are bad. Neither is wrong

    For optics let’s say everyone mode is 40 games. That’s 240 games you need to play that’s not casual. That’s about 34 games a day.

    Let’s say everyone is 12. That’s 60 games a week that’s more casual.

    Now people will say you can afk face roll playing 30 games a day that’s more casual. Quit every game with gg it makes it more casual.

    I think it’s more casual to be a better player and play less games.

    People say a bad casual player should be able to play more games than someone who is good and the bad player should get better rewards. To me that doesn’t make sense.

    The good casual player who doesn’t have time should get rewarded better than the bad casual player who can put in 32 games a day.

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