"Gamer"

Everyone can say they are a gamer if they play games. How er... "hardcore" you are depends on the time you put into the hobby :)

Anyone in the process of playing a game is called a gamer.
Its neither complimentary or a derogatory term.

I think it's gotta be a choice or a lifestyle of some sort. Compare "game player" to "gamer."

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken, as they say...

peeps who play dem videogamiez.

I chose not to cast a vote.
A gamer is someone who plays games.
Quantity of games or game-time is irrelevant.

Gamers: People who view games as one of their hobbies.

i would define a gamer not by the amount of games or playtime. But the interest in games and the joy he/she gets of them. I remember when I was a kid in the 90's I had a few games on pc and on my NES, didn't play that much but I loved (still do) the whole atmosphere around it, I had my shirts from mario, nintendo,... and people would automatically call me the gamer kid from the block...

I'm going to agree with Plansby.

It's the same difference as a drummer and a person who plays a drum. Anyone can bang on a drum; it doesn't make them a drummer. You can wave a stick around to a 4/4, but it doesn't make you a conductor.

Neither. A gamer is someone who plays games, doesn't matter what game it is.

About knowledge of any choosen game.

It's like how I explain it to my mother. I can make scrapbooks and other crafty things she does, but I don't have much passion for it and thus am not a "crafter". A gamer to me is simply one who has a passion for games and enjoys them.

Gamer? Depends on your K:D ratio in competitive FPS games, what else? Silly!

Neither , gamer is not a elitist term .
Hardcore gamer is another thing.

I'm going to say someone who enjoys games.

as long as it is not "played" on a smartphone device :S

gamer = label created to sell shit, usually to a gullible audience ... if something
is sold for gamers i triple check wtf those bums are actually trying to sell

I tend to think of a "gamer" as somebody who plays games as a hobby, as a leisure activity pursued in its own right and not just something to fill idle time or an occasional novelty. This doesn't seem to directly imply anything about number of games or time spent playing them.

(Technically, there's a sense in which anyone who games is a "gamer" just as anyone who sings is a "singer" and anyone who dances a "dancer". But, that's not what we first think when somebody says "singer", "dancer", or "gamer", it's not how those words are most often used.)

google isn't that hard to use..

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Gamer: Someone who takes gaming seriously.

gamer: someone who plays games

i play games on my phone so i'm a gamer. ツ

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I don't personally use the term "Gamer" to describe people, partly because I straddle all the possible definitions of the word; I game on consoles (well, I play Smash Bros on Wii U, so not really consoles per se), I spend most of my time on PC, I play "hardcore" games like ARMA and casual games, "competitive" games like Overwatch and "social" games like... well, I used to play MMOs with people. I play digital games, tabletop games (D&D and stuff like it), and hybrid (digital tabletops for traditional games). No matter who is looking, I'm a gamer, but so many people would act like certain ones of those interests which I would broadly call gaming are the reasons why I'm a gamer. but not count all of them as equally valid, and so I don't bother with the term because it's just too subjective.

I'm happy to be a casual gamer, playing what I want when I feel like it without having to be #1 or ragequit.