For the meanings of that column, I am defining a casual WoW player as someone who has 2 hours or less to play at a moment. whether you spend 2 hours playing solitaire, next you are considered a hardcore solitaire player, but for the World of Warcraft, a couple hours really isn’t very much date. There are a lot of public who have more instance to play that consider themselves casuals and there are casual raiders and there are hardcore raiders and, well, these categories really don’t work very well. But there are definitely plus hardcore raider elitist types and many of them are bellyaching that Blizzard spent last year making the game easier for the casual players. I think that Blizzard made the game easier and more fun for everybody and while casuals got a whole lot of benefit from last year’s development, raiders got some goodies specifically for them as well.

But that column isn’t for the raiders, it’s for those of us who don’t have sufficient date to raid on a regular basis and have to squeeze as much fun and value out of our playtime as possible. And regardless of who else it helped, Blizzard did a lot for us:

Getting from 60 to 70:
If you’ve played the original EQ, you may have expected (like I did) that getting to 70 when Burning Crusade came out would take as enlarged as getting from 1 to 60. But that was not the case. Getting from 60 to 70 was easier for me than getting from 40 to 50 and from 50 to 60. It was fast, fun, full of quests and easily soloable.