Infinity Ward: ''CoD players aren't hardcore gamers, or even gamers at all''

[megadarkwood]

Loooooool

[hatycat]

I kind of agree, I don't think a gamer is anyone who plays videogames. I mean you don't say, oh I watched twilight I am a film buff, playing cod does not make you a gamer.

[Lays]

Ive hit a nerv there i see...

 

For you there are most fun games for rest they arent and as you guessed it it was based on my own opinion...

 

you didn't hit a nerve, I just don't get why people look down upon people that do/ see differently than themselves, I believe a post you made recently completely agrees with my views as-well.

 

And I quote:

 

I just dont believe in nothing. That includes religion and people. Greed and hate because someone sees something otherway is the problem soo i tend to keep outta it.

[NJM1112]

Are people getting butthurt over CoD on this forum. Sad. Maybe not butthurt but definitely feel the need to debate it... 

I don't care about it. I'll just sit here and play my PC indie games.

[theroflcopta]

If you play 50 different games for 80 hours a week you are a gamer. If you play CoD, BF, or madden maybe 20-30 minutes a day you are a gamer. If you play angry birds on your phone every now and then you are a gamer. There is no reason to alienate and differentiate people who enjoy the same pass time as you just so you can feel superior and wear the "gamer" title as a badge of honor. If you engage in the act of playing a video game no matter what it is you are indeed a gamer. It's as simple as that. I don't see a need for me to get a special title just because I spend more time playing games than most people. I don't care what i'm called and I don't care who shares my social title. I only care about playing games I don't need to have people below me to justify me playing them. /endrant 

[Stonep11]

I love battlefield, but origin killed it for me.

Origin really isn't that bad. Yeah it aucks that I have the whole thing and have to open it and keep it going for 1 game, but it rely isn't that bad, sometimes they even have better deals than steam sales?

[dylandylandylan]

I play COD but I also have over 100 other games in my steam library and over 100 physical games for my consoles.. a bit rough but I guess it's a pretty spot on generalization. What classifies a gamer? someone that plays "hardcore" games 4+ hours a day? someone that only plays the latest and greatest? if generalizing someone into thinking they're not a gamer because they only enjoy playing one game .. well.. I don't know.

[bradscoolio]

People who infactuate themselves with in a tiny Call of Duty bubble and refuse to stray from their fandom aren't gamers. They are people who play a game.

[Vitalius]

Let me give you guys the analogy I thought of that goes along with my cereal analogy:

If you eat fast food all the time, are you a food connoisseur? A food buff? An aficionado? I think the answer is no, and anyone who disagrees doesn't understand what those words mean. 

There are "people who eat food" (that's a joke btw, since everyone does) and then there are the above people. Where they read, learn about, breathe, and generally love food in all it's forms. 

Are they the same? No. They are most certainly not, and I can guarantee you that the people who love food (not in the sense of eating obscene amounts of it, but in the sense of learning about it and "experiencing" it) will desire to distinguish themselves. 

This whole discussion is the exact same situation. Only it's not about something that is vital for life. Gamers, as we (most people on this forum) would define one, are people who love video games. Who learn about them, and live them (in that they spend lots of time in regards to them), except that we just don't use special words for it. Aside from "hardcore", but all the terms are sweeping or too specific, and thusly none of them are good. So we stick with the generic "Gamer". 

There are those who play games and those who are gamers. As others have said. They are different, and rightly so.

CoD is to games as fast food is to food in general. Cheap. Delicious. But worth it? Not in the long term, by a long shot. 

There are people who seek to find out what said medium (food or video games) has to fully offer, and then there are those who do it out of necessity and little else. 

For fast food, they want cheap, fast, and delicious food. For people who play games, they want hours of mind-numbing entertainment. It's basically the same thing in a different form. 

By all I've said, I reiterate, I agree with the OP and the article. Call of Duty players (people who play it and it only as well as other games like it) are not gamers. Not in my eyes. Simply because they don't do it for the same reasons I believe a gamer would. Not just for entertainment, but for something more.

[Kajornkeat]

If they play COD on PC, still ok IMO but If they play COD on console only, time to go to school now kids

[Zeruel]

Calling out CoD players because they have become a popular target over the years, is quite naiive don't you think? 

 

I would describe a Hardcore gamer as somebody who dedicates a large amount of his leisure time to playing video games. Be it one game or many. A professional gamer has a schedule for practice. He/she may in some cases play less per week than a hardcore but he/she will focus all their dedicated time on one game. 

I'm not calling them out, only its just some CoD players have unbelievable ignorance of what the gaming really is and they become part of the problem with todays gaming culture.

[Yoinkerman]

my mom plays tetris on game boy when she poos on the toilet, does that make her a gamer?

[jsnsheets]

"Gamer" is not an exclusive club that you must earn admission in to by completing various computer game-related task. If you call yourself a gamer, chances are, you're a gamer

[Skanic]

You know you can buy origin games like bf3 in a normal store and Register it in origin? Same goes for steam games. And origin is not that Bad. Even if steam is miles ahead Of it

[RainColt]

Damn casuals

[IdeaStormer]

Here's a more realistic definition @Abyssal Radon :

 

 

1. gamer

1.)someone who plays video games when bored...usually very good at it

2.) someone who plays video games as a hobby

frank::dude i can't belive you got your ass kicked at halo by a fucking 10 year old....jesus fuck man i thought you were a gamer

2. Gamer

The term "Gamer" by itself can apply to nearly anyone who plays video games on a regular basis or even once in a long while. However, even among gamers and the definitions on this site there is a large amount of debate about who and what gamers exactly are. The best way to define the term "gamer" is not to define it at all but accept that there are in fact many types of gamers out there and there is no blanket term that can cover them all.

Casual gamers are the people who mostly own console systems and buy mostly sports and racing games. They don't like fantasy games and only enjoy sci-fi games based on movies they may have seen. This group, unfortunatly, makes up the bulk of the gaming community and the current popularity of shitty games on shitty console systems is evidence of this. Casual Gamers think that having a "life" consists entirely of getting laid and drunk on a regular basis and have very little interest in games outside of a way to pass the time without spending alot of money.

The group of people who call themselves Hardcore gamers aren't often quite as "hardcore" about gaming as they would like to think. These are the people you see complaining that games now come in fancy modes like "3D" and debating the finer points of why Final Fantasy 6 was better than Final Fantasy 7. The only people who might actually be hardcore are the people who sit an camp the firegiant hideout in evercamp for 72 hours at a time just to get some item that will help them camp better. I wouldn't rate either side of this coin as being a very pretty sight.

Finally there are the true gamers who actually treat gaming as a real HOBBY and not just a way to pass time or something to try and collect hundred upon thousands of. True Gamers just try to find an enjoy the best games out there and don't like getting ripped off because Casual gamers are pushing the industry towards a point where the only games that will be profitable are Madden and GTA. True Gamers often own high quality PC's and play PC games most often. Despite what most people might think a PC isn't hard to operate and doesn't cost too much. The people who say PC's are too expensive are often spending hundreds of dollars on console systems that can't do even half as many things as a PC can do and to make matters worse they own more than one of these stone age devices.

True Gamers: Don't pay attention to the poseurs and bums out there who just play Madden or are too busy talking about Final Fantasy 6 to play anything at all. Just continue to buy good games from good companies so our little corner of the gaming community doesn't end up with an "Out of bussiness" sign hanging on the door.

 

Ref: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gamer

 

And by page 5 of this thread I can tell there's a lot of Forum Gamers here

[Arun46682]

Professional Players play only one game this means they are not Gamers :3 Dafq that logic !

[Seldszar]

They are gamers but it just rubs me the wrong way when they try to show their "cred" when realy ... they know nothing else but CoD.

 

About pros : I would be willing to bet a lot that pro CoD players tried other games. I can't fathom investing so much time in a medium and not want to try different aspect of it.

[Valkexia]

Gamer is a general term. It includes anyone who plays video games, including casual games. I think some of you guys just want do differentiate yourselves from gamers who play games that you hate, suck, or are casual. You can just call yourselves Core Gamers or Hardcore Gamers. 

 

Or we could all be just gamers...

[kilo]

I really do hate the word " Gamer " and how people try to define it .

 

Agreed! I like to play video games of all different genres and titles but I don't label myself as a gamer.

 

I feel like that word is overused and should go away. Gaming is so widespread that pretty much everyone could be considered a "gamer".

 

If someone really likes movies they don't call themselves a movie watcher! almost everyone watches movies. They just sound ridiculous.

[ReillyP]

I agree as many people play games; however if you only play cod you are confined to a one genre, one game series. (cough mw2.5) You may be really into pizza but that alone doesn't make you a food critic but an avid pizza-ist.

[vanwazltoff]

I have only ever bought 2 CoD games, CoD 3 and 4, I have played MW2, havent played more than 30 minutes of a CoD game after MW2, completely lost the sence of value in the series. I am completely addicted to Borderlands 2, but that has a fun and interesting story with laughs and challenges along the way. I havent been an online gamer since Bad Company 2

[virtualTune]

I'm not calling them out, only its just some CoD players have unbelievable ignorance of what the gaming really is and they become part of the problem with todays gaming culture.

I am pretty sure you have those ignorent players in every game, the ones in CoD are just most popular because the game is the most popular shooter.

Yes "they" have created a problem, but in the other hand they allowed small companies and indie-devs to get more attention. 

[Eyal]

Isn't the definition of gamer is someone who plays video games?

[Feeterican]

So this guy say's that, well, what does he consider a gamer is. In the past the definition of a gamer was someone who played Dungeons & Dragons Role Playing Game w/ dice and imagination. is this what he is talking about?