evalilith:

the idea of ‘casual gaming’ is so?

obviously first of all you don’t have to be obsessed with a thing to enjoy it but also if you look at the kind of games that are considered “casual” it becomes obvious so quickly that “casual” means “non-violent/not hyper-masculine’”

like. Popcap games has made a lot of money off the fact that people are so not casual about Bejeweled that they will pay actual money to progress faster 

the two most-played games on my 3DS are Animal Crossing and Tomodachi Life, and I have just shy of 669.5 hours logged between the two of them and there are people who own two copies of Animal Crossing: New Leaf because they want multiple towns or because they want a spare to cycle villagers through so they can get their ideal town

the Sims games have one of the most dedicated and helpful modding communities I’ve ever seen, there are so many people who devote countless hours to picking apart EA’s broken code, to figuring out how to fix everything when EA breaks all the custom content with their latest patch, to filling in features that the game lacks for no obvious reason

people are not casual about these games???? but apparently talking to the AI instead of killing it makes the game not worth taking seriously