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Originally Posted by Captain Joy
I didn't think Casual Gamer should mean Novice Gamer or Clueless Gamer. Maybe that was a mistake?
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I think you're right here. A key sentence from Laws' definition: "Often, they’re present to hang out with the group, and game just because it happens to be the activity everyone else has chosen." They're not interested in the rules for their own sake, so the Tacticians and Power Gamers might see that as being a novice (or clueless). "Social Gamer" is probably at least as good of a term as "Casual" to describe this type.
(Or at least by my sense of the words. In World of Warcraft jargon, "casual" -- also a noun -- is considerably more insulting, and does imply lack of ability or cluelessness, e.g. "Blizzard had to dumb the fight down for the casuals" or "they're just a casual raiding guild". So "Social" might be even better, to avoid that sense of "casual".)