3. Classic. Hard to answer. To me its about shaping your character. Exploring. Getting new friend. Finding wierd places and quest of the besten path. Theres so much to it.
4. Punishment?
5. There is no such thing as hardcore in my opinion. Fire fighters running inte flame to save someone is hardcore. What defines "hardcore" is how much free time you have to play.
6. Casual are just relaxing and not Taking the game to serious. The type of game I and Many others like.
7. A mix of both. I like doing raids but when the boss goes down and we're done screaming like 14 year olds meeting Justin Bieber, I want to go back and do small scale fun shit.
8. Raids done well could be a good challange. Something like Onyxias or Gruuls lair I always like. Enter - get a fun challange - leave to explore dungeons with Friends.
9. Grind can be Many things. I think you want to define the forced boring stuff that breaks your soul away and not grinding for something. I like finding, but I dont like grind things. I would not mind grind stuff for character progress as long as its not boring stuff done for The sake of timegating. PG is a game where you grind alot but it dosent feel grindy.
10. Again. Both. There are thing you grind for it. And doing a Hard boss then going back to "normal" mmo stuff. Thats what I like.