Theres no such thing as casual gamer in WoW. If you plan to be casual you'll eventually get bored of it very fast cause you will be doing the same stuffs that everyone else is doing

If you dedicate a little more time you will be able to see more endgame content which will eventually lead you and your guild to spend more and more time in it. Theres so many instances for you to clear in a week time and if your guild still in learning process then be prepared to spend countless hours without logging off with an extra epic loot cause a lot of time will be spent on learning and trying out new stuffs

Its either you play hardcore or dont play at all otherwise its a waste of money. I'm sure everyone that plays WoW will tend to be hardcore otherwise you'll be walking around only in Karazhan gears while others will be walking around with SSC/Eye onwards gear

I quitted WoW a long time ago after my guild down Gruul and i felt that my life span increased by twice lol cause now i have more free time to do other things

hardcore can be raiding every single night. even for a working person it's doable. just farm mats over the weekend. or even raid 5x a week is good enough.

raiding is not for casual at all. u don't succeed without the practice and the mobs.

leveling is for casual. non-heroic instances are semi-casual. heroics are still relatively hardcore since bosses like very hard and act like raid bosses.

and it's not kiasu-ism since any game, be it a video game, MMO or sports, is still very competitive. even if you're competiting against PvE, it's still competitive.

and err...what's that got to do with your understanding on ChGamer's viewpoint on a waste of money? it does sound that you're more ticked off by guilds that are progressing very fast rather than ChGamer's viewpoint?

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or else? IF you noticed, after working hours, this forum all quite dead!
BUT if its not office hours and servers are down, this forum became alive!
So...not just me la! hahaha