Types of Computer Gamers and Online Gamers

Everyone knows at least gamer, your best mate, your recluse neighbour, the man down the road in the gigantic house, your sister, your grandmother. But do you know what type of gamer they are?

This editorial will try to outline the various types of gamer so next time you see them, you can correctly identify the type of gamer they are.

Casual Gamer

A casual gamer is a player whose interest in gambling is limited, they have an inclination to lean towards simpler styles of play and don't spend hours at a time on specific game. Casual game enthusiasts are predominately females and enjoy interactive games such as those where you may progress a character through a virtual world, or where you directly control the character by motion sensors.

Hardcore game enthusiasts spend plenty of hours perfecting their style of play on each game, they have an inclination to play games that need much more user involvement and take much longer to complete in-game goals such as achievements and quests. Plenty of hardcore game enthusiasts have a competitive mindset when it comes to playing online, each trying to better their opponents and gain positions in online leagues and competitions.

Hardcore Game enthusiasts

Pro Game enthusiasts

Professional game enthusiasts play video games for money, some even play professionally for a living, earning giant sums of money for winning competitions. Pro game enthusiasts are the best of the hardcore game enthusiasts, usually specialising in a sure game or franchise of games. Some pro game enthusiasts can earn over $150,000 a year from competitions and endorsement by electronics and gambling companies. Pro gambling is giant business is South Korea and Japan where competitions are stream to hundreds of thousands of people.

Beginner / Noob

Noob is a slang term for someone new to gambling, a sure game or someone who is a much worse or amateur player. It is often used as an insult in game "look at that noob, he doesn't know what he is doing!"

Retro Gamer

Retro gambling is coming back in a giant way. People are recalling the original and addictive games they played as a child/teenager and need to relive some of those moments. Plenty of elderly console emulators are obtainable online these days so the retro gamer can download their favourite old-school games and play on their new modern computer systems. Along with emulators plenty of people are actually digging out their elderly consoles from the attic and getting right back to how games was two times played.

This list is exhaustive and there's plenty of subsets of each type of gamer, but hopefully now you'll be able to simpler identify the gamer type in each of your friends.