In your opinion, does mobile gaming count as real gaming?

[Ivy]

I see it as a way for developers to exploit people for easy cash. I don't really see, say, Clash of Clans as a gaming experience so much as a money spending ritual. However, I also think that people should play games that they see as fun and pleasing. What do you think?

[Vault Hunter 101]

"real gaming" is in the heart not hardware...

We are all gamers and please stop building walls between our kind and start wars

[Spieler]

yes gaming is gaming be it on a console, PC, Nintendo gameboy or mobile phone... There is no difference in "true" gaming or ♥♥♥♥ like that

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

You not going to sell a lot $15K gaming rigs with those attitudes ha ha.

PC hardware gaming race offiically debunked on Steam as pointless.

Just everyone get a $10 bargin bin smart phone to become a Pro MLG yay!

[Sin]

Gaming is gaming, no matter what the platform. Some just use mobile games to kill some time while waiting somewhere and some are more serious about it than others.

[僕の名前 (仮)]

Whem mobile gaming included in some statistics, I do not count it as gaming. They should at least specifically split mobile and PC gaming when posting stats.

[Captain Morgan]

No, mobile gaming does not count as real gaming, but according to my opinion, mobile dating counts as real dating, he he he...

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Gaben Groupie:

You not going to sell a lot $15K gaming rigs with those attitudes ha ha.

PC hardware gaming race offiically debunked on Steam as pointless.

Just everyone get a $10 bargin bin smart phone to become a Pro MLG yay!

FWIW I'm pretty content with a several-hundred-USD laptop.

What hardware one needs depends on one's tastes.

[Ivy]

I have an $800 gaming PC. Not incredibly great but it will run DOOM at fine speeds.

[Cerberus Shepard]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Gaben Groupie:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 💔💔ErickaUnlimited💔💔:

We're going for a record here.

It is a simple answer to a simple question and we all know what the answer is going to be, so...

not really thee way youhave formed thequestionand answers is loaded to find in your arguments favour...also why does it bother you sa damn much? its not YOUR money being spent...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ armchair tyrants deciding they know whats best for everyone really piss me off

DONT LIKE THEM DONT PLAY THEM SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Quint the House Gecko:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Gaben Groupie:

You not going to sell a lot $15K gaming rigs with those attitudes ha ha.

PC hardware gaming race offiically debunked on Steam as pointless.

Just everyone get a $10 bargin bin smart phone to become a Pro MLG yay!

FWIW I'm pretty content with a several-hundred-USD laptop.

What hardware one needs depends on one's tastes.

If you primarly brought that to game then I'd say you are a gaming enthuiast hobbyist for sure.

Most people don't buy smart phones to game. It is a extra feature they get sucked into later.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sin:

Gaming is gaming, no matter what the platform. Some just use mobile games to kill some time while waiting somewhere and some are more serious about it than others.

Yeah that was my whole point some are enthiausts/hobbyists and some are not. When people bang on about real gamer and true gamer all they really mean is enthiausts/hobbyists.

I don't take gaming serious at all not like the Pro-MLG lot, but has been a major hobby for decades. Just saying mobile gaming enthiausts/hobbyists seem to like unicorns hard to find.

Mobile gaming is the entry level doorway into gaming low spec low cost, but most of it is very basic crap.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Gaben Groupie:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Quint the House Gecko:

FWIW I'm pretty content with a several-hundred-USD laptop.

What hardware one needs depends on one's tastes.

If you primarly brought that to game then I'd say you are a gaming enthuiast hobbyist for sure.

Most people don't buy smart phones to game. It is a extra feature they get sucked into later.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sin:

Gaming is gaming, no matter what the platform. Some just use mobile games to kill some time while waiting somewhere and some are more serious about it than others.

Yeah that was my whole point some are enthiausts/hobbyists and some are not. When people bang on about real gamer and true gamer all they really mean is enthiausts/hobbyists.

I don't take gaming serious at all not like the Pro-MLG lot, but has been a major hobby for decades. Just saying mobile gaming enthiausts/hobbyists seem to like unicorns hard to find.

Mobile gaming is the entry level doorway into gaming low spec low cost, but most of it is very basic crap.

Well, I bought it to use for schoolwork. Which I do do on it. It just doubles as my gaming platform. (Which might not be a good thing because this arrangement means my distraction rests right beneath my fingertips...but at this point in time I actually waste more time chatting on forums than I do gaming...)

If I needed to buy a new computer, I might buy this sort of computer -- it's sorta low-/mid-end I guess, fourth-gen i5 with Integrated 4400 -- as opposed to something really low-end like a Pentium, because I do get to play a few more games on it.

I guess it actually comes out roughly even in the end, hardware-wise -- if I spend $750 on a computer instead of $350, that means I could have bought a $350 computer and a $400 console, or a $350 computer and two $200 handhelds. (Not counting games for the moment, but PC has a far wider and cheaper selection than do consoles and handhelds...) Though some of my work does benefit from having a somewhat more competent processor, so it's not really this clear-cut.

As for the enthusiast/hobbyist thing, yeah, definitely. That correlates very well with how much people identify with the label "gamer" -- it's often based on whether they see that as a significant activity in their life. Someone who's awkwardly played a few minutes of Super Mario Bros. would likely not self-identify as a gamer, the same way I don't readily associate myself with the XBox community because I've only played about five minutes of Halo.

[First&Only]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Red Monk:

What the hell is "real gaming"?

a good old fashioned board game

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Quint the House Gecko:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Gaben Groupie:

If you primarly brought that to game then I'd say you are a gaming enthuiast hobbyist for sure.

Most people don't buy smart phones to game. It is a extra feature they get sucked into later.



Yeah that was my whole point some are enthiausts/hobbyists and some are not. When people bang on about real gamer and true gamer all they really mean is enthiausts/hobbyists.

I don't take gaming serious at all not like the Pro-MLG lot, but has been a major hobby for decades. Just saying mobile gaming enthiausts/hobbyists seem to like unicorns hard to find.

Mobile gaming is the entry level doorway into gaming low spec low cost, but most of it is very basic crap.

Well, I bought it to use for schoolwork. Which I do do on it. It just doubles as my gaming platform. (Which might not be a good thing because this arrangement means my distraction rests right beneath my fingertips...but at this point in time I actually waste more time chatting on forums than I do gaming...)

If I needed to buy a new computer, I might buy this sort of computer -- it's sorta low-/mid-end I guess, fourth-gen i5 with Integrated 4400 -- as opposed to something really low-end like a Pentium, because I do get to play a few more games on it.

I guess it actually comes out roughly even in the end, hardware-wise -- if I spend $750 on a computer instead of $350, that means I could have bought a $350 computer and a $400 console, or a $350 computer and two $200 handhelds. (Not counting games for the moment, but PC has a far wider and cheaper selection than do consoles and handhelds...) Though some of my work does benefit from having a somewhat more competent processor, so it's not really this clear-cut.

As for the enthusiast/hobbyist thing, yeah, definitely. That correlates very well with how much people identify with the label "gamer" -- it's often based on whether they see that as a significant activity in their life. Someone who's awkwardly played a few minutes of Super Mario Bros. would likely not self-identify as a gamer, the same way I don't readily associate myself with the XBox community because I've only played about five minutes of Halo.

This true real gamers claim and casual versus hard core gamers battle has been around for time. It's always a good laugh when it kicks off now and again.

I consider self a casual gamer none of this Pro-MLG, but also hardcore gamer in that I try to play as many genres as I can on multiple systems.

Unlike the Pro-MLG playes who are only hardcore for a few games on one system and casual gamers when it comes to so many other genres and systems.

[ErickaUnlimited]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย First&Only:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Red Monk:

What the hell is "real gaming"?

a good old fashioned board game

Monopoly or bust.

[Iron Phoenix]

What are these Unicorns I keep hearing about?
In some other thread someone congratulated me that I had found the hidden unicorn but I dont have a clue.