Older gamers

[Gemina]

I'm reminded of a time when I asked my aunt, who is in her late 60s, why she thought The Big Bang Theory was so funny, and she answered with, "Because they're grown men who play video games." I gently reminded her that I am a grown man who plays video games.

To her generation, video games have always been toys for children, and the marketing of especially the '80s and '90s worked way to hard to reinforce that notion. As far as I know, the majority of gamers have always been in that 18-34 range, which makes sense considering which demographic has that magical combination of free time and disposable income. I'm not surprised that there are so many of us (relatively speaking) in our 30s playing FFXIV. After all, we grew up with games, they've grown up with us, and we generally aren't too put-out by a monthly subscription fee.

Despite my "old age", I'm the youngest in my FC and they sure do love to make me aware of that fact. They constantly toss out some old references and colloquialisms leaving me saying, "Huh?" xD

When I reflect on a lot of the gaming commercials even of today, it's usually males in the 18-25 range, which probably does make up the overall majority of gamers today, or at least the target demographic. But there are so many people much older and females playing games today, but no complaints here. I prefer to live in the shadows!

[HappyHaunt]

When I reflect on a lot of the gaming commercials even of today, it's usually males in the 18-25 range, which probably does make up the overall majority of gamers today, or at least the target demographic. But there are so many people much older and females playing games today, but no complaints here. I prefer to live in the shadows!

Oh yeah, there are a lot more of us females playing video games than media would have folks believe. XD

[TaleraRistain]

Console gamers were online for the first time, and green as green can be.

Close. That honor belongs to the Dreamcast. Beat PS2 by a few years. And I believe EQOA was a year before XI was on consoles, since it didn't need the HDD.

EQOA was the EQ Liite version, though. XI was the first full-fledged MMORPG experience on consoles.

To the thread, 39 and gaming in some form since I was 4ish. I played King's Quest on the computer of my babysitter's kid. I can't remember a time I haven't had gaming to keep me busy. I started MMOs with vanilla EQ in 1999.

[YatoShishi]

I know exactly how you feel, Iam 30 and I cant find any people in my age. Im always the "oldest" )= most people I know are 20-25, which makes me the odd one sometimes because, idk, I guess interests etc arent rly the same.

[HappyHaunt]

Oh hey, you're on my world. I have no idea of the average age of players in this game but I'm only a couple years older than you. Player search returned no results for you just now so I guess you're not online. I'll try again later, or you can feel free to whisper/add me if you catch me first. I'm going to stay online for a bit now, but most often I'm ingame between 18-22 UTC (sometimes at other random times too). You're welcome to join my FC as well. We're not too large but we have some people online most nights.

Yeah sorry wasn't online; about to go on though so I'll try add you. If not feel free to keep trying to add me as well. XD

I'm turning the big 30 this year. Time files so fast I'm glad you posted this. My one good friend in the game stopped playing just before Stormblood. It would be great to find some new friends to head into ShbB with.

I wish it was easier to add people from different servers. And perhaps a different datacenter friend list as well.

Bunch of kiddies here.. Currently 71 myself. (Played WoW since BC, now here). I would have played in my teens, but in the 60's, there were no computers on earth powerful enough to run games like this.

You give me hope that I can continue to play video games for as long as I want.

Consoles? Like a terminal attached to a Mainframe computer? Not accessible at all, unless you worked for someone that owned one, or the manufacturer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...0%E2%80%931979
Home game consoles didn't appear until the early 70's
I built my first computer, an Imsai 8080 around 1975 (Kit of parts, had to solder everything) And I still have it, but it doesn't run. Storage for it was paper tape, then 70KB floppy disks. No commercial software available other than the OS. http://oldcomputers.net/imsai8080.html

I love old computers; especially those first ones that filled entire rooms! But yeah... normal folks couldn't own those.

I know exactly how you feel, Iam 30 and I cant find any people in my age. Im always the "oldest" )= most people I know are 20-25, which makes me the odd one sometimes because, idk, I guess interests etc arent rly the same.

Yeah its annoying; well if we ever end up in the same party feel free to add me. Odin and Lich are going to still be on the same datacenter.

[Jkap_Goat]

I just turned 30, but I am the oldest in my group among my friends. Would like to make friends with older people or people

[RukiaFae]

I just turned 30, but I am the oldest in my group among my friends. Would like to make friends with older people or people

I currently have two characters on Goblin. I plan to start a new character on primal and then move one of my characters back to Aether next month so I will have a character on each data center.

[Caitlinzulu]

46 here and still loving every minute I play. I am a lot older then most of my friends but it doesn't matter one bit

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Helluuuuu just you wait start to like to be alone too

[LunaFancy]

I'm in my forties and enjoy outing myself by telling the young 'uns about the dark ages of video games when we walked 20 miles uphill in the snow just to get to the Space Invaders machine at the roller skate rink. I still have my fold out Donkey Kong game tucked away somewhere lol!