A real gamer is one who enjoys and plays video games a lot and who respects all platforms of choice. Mobile games still don't count.

A gamer is someone who loves games and actually knows stuff about them.

A real gamer is who loves games on any platform, and is always trying new genres of games. Doesn't hate on consoles or PC's but hates on the "gamers" who think their console or PC is the "master race". They're the Guardians(ba bum tss) of the gaming world. [spoiler]Also if someone challenges them, they'll kick that noobs ass with no mercy.[/spoiler]

Anyone that enjoys video games is a gamer you either play them a lot or a little there's no hardcore or real gamer category

I just play games that I like. What else is there to say?

I game, therefore I am.

People who try to define such things are usually just trying to establish some type of superiority over other people. Which when put into the context of talking about video games makes them look pretty ridiculous.

To be doing something and you look forward to playing a game when you get home, any game

Idk is IS full of gamers?

Real gamers don't shitpost

How can gamers be real if games aren't real ._o #JaydenSmith

Someone who likes playing games simple as that.

[quote]What to you is a real gamer?[/quote]Someone who plays video games with any degree of regularity regularly. Any type of game on any type of platform including consoles, computers and mobile devices. From there, one can break down the definition into hardcore gamer, causal gamer, etc... but that's something I don't wish to define right now.

Someone who plays video games more than just casually and has put some sort of dedication into at least one game. No, mobile games do not count and [b][u]never[/u][/b] will.

Spends 30+ hours a week playing games

I would agree with you if society went by simple definitions and did not attach greater meanings to words, but the latter is not the case, so I do not. When I think of the word "gamer", I think "hardcore gamer", and Urban Dictionary fairly captures the connotations of the word: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hardcore%20Gamer I do not agree entirely with UD, but I do see "gamers" as churning through a LOT of video games, generally PvE games that are escapist and non-competitive in nature. They look down at PvP FPS games as being too casual, even if it takes hardcore effort and dedication to "git gud" in those types of games. Gamers develop a weird downside-up elitist attitude even as they are viewed as loser nerds by society in general. I would not want to be considered a gamer, and I think that is an attitude that is common among PvP FPS players, regardless of how dedicated we are to the few games we play. I think competitive FPS is a different animal altogether. I would be interested in what other PvP FPS players have to say about that. Note: Destiny is escapist, non-competitive PvE so it is definitely for "gamers". However, I expect those people will be disillusioned rather quickly when they learn how little content Bungle is willing to provide in the base game. Gamers are far more demanding of content than Bungle's old PvP FPS crowd.

Someone who enjoys video games...that simple...

Someone who plays video games.

Analogy: (In the suburban U.S. environment) When young, everyone plays soccer. Moving into middle-school, some kids begin to play soccer of their own volition. In high-school there are kids that keep playing soccer, and kids that start to define themselves by playing soccer. In college, some of that latter group will play for fun, some will play for club teams, and a scant few will play for the school team. After school most of these people will play an occasional game with a club, maybe a match at a company picnic, but they will, for the most part, not be playing much soccer through their mid-to-late twenties, and even less in their 30s. A minuscule fraction of them will actually play soccer professionally. NB: you don't ask a kid what they do (they are students), you ask them about their interests and hobbies. These are the things that differentiate them. People have a desire for identity (particularly the uniqueness thereof). As an adult, the first thing you've got going for you in this respect is your job, as even the most common professions are not that common. When you are in middle-/high- school (and everyone 'does' the same thing) you differentiate via hobbies. Conclusion: So, taken all together, the point is that the notion of a gamer as "one willing to dedicate substantial time and resources to improving their performance" is probably limited to that 13-24 age group. Those are the kids that define themselves as soccer players in high-school and play for the school team in college. For those younger, the word 'gamer' doesn't mean anything because everyone plays and they take it as seriously as kids take anything else. After that, as one heads towards their 30s (and Beyond!) there are professionals (those that play games for a living, work as gaming journalists, etc. etc.) and there are those that still play games at all. Side Note: Younger people might find it hard to believe, but there will probably come a time when you no longer even own a console (or you go a season without going surfing, skiing, biking, playing basketball, etc. etc.). When young you can have a million hobbies, but there stops being time for everything (sometimes thanks to jobs, but really it's the family that takes the hours away), so you no longer get to spend a couple of hours playing a sport after work and then going home to play games for 3 or 4 more; you finish work, maybe get a drink with co-workers (don't count on it though), pick up the kids, get the kids to their activities, get the kids working on their homework, get dinner prepped/served/cleaned up, get the kids to bed and then you have a bit of time for yourself (JUST KIDDING! it's "yourselves," not "yourself," because you're in it together). So maybe you're playing a game together, maybe you watch a movie, or one of dozens of options, but you can only do 1 End Side Note. In short, for those in their 30s, a 'gamer' is, someone that gets and hour a week in. A serious gamer might get 3. So yeah, that kind of ran on a bit, but the point is that "true gamer" is probably an age-dependent terms with the "hardcore" crowd being the same group that's "hardcore" about anything else: 13-24 year olds that can immerse themselves into something other than work/family/friends. What happens when older people try to be "hardcore?" Well, the police generally get involved: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-couple-world-of-warcraft-prison-child-neglect-20140812-story.html