My fiance is what I would describe as a casual game player, if we’re only speak­ing in the sense of time spent. Every once in a while she’ll have one of those Sims 2 binges or she’ll get hooked on things like Chibi Robo, but for the most part it’s some­thing that takes up very lit­tle of her free time. If I were to say 5 to 10 hours a month, I’m prob­a­bly being generous.

The sheer amount of time a hard­core MMORPG player seems to invest into these games dwarfs that num­ber so sig­nif­i­cantly that it’s pretty amaz­ing. Some­how there are peo­ple play­ing these 40 hours plus a week. And as such, one can put in 20 hours or more a month into var­i­ous MMORPGs with­out being con­sid­ered overly “seri­ous” about them.

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