Is World of Warcraft a hardcore game?

Counter-question to yesterday's post is provided by Nils, who thinks that World of Warcraft became more hardcore over time. While I would be tempted to niggle over the details if I were to dissect his post line by line, I must say that overall I agree: For me as a player with a more casual than hardcore mindset, World of Warcraft is less interesting now than it was 6 years ago.Unlike Nils I would argue the point not feature by feature, but rather by looking at the Bartle types. If you were to ta

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