Am I the oldest player in the City?

We are a tiny percentage of gamers, but I am close on your heels. 59, comics reader at the same rack in the drug store no doubt. Gamer since first edition D&D.

My in-laws play with my wife and I.. They are both 75.

On the other hand... my son plays... and has since he was three.

I'm pretty much right smack in the middle, along with my wife.

I gotta chime in I'll be 55 in August...my three sons (some of us remember that show lol) all played CoH at one time, until ole Dad started getting more 50's then the three of them put together lol

42 and easily one of the most immature people to ever play the game. Or any game.

/e throwhissyfit

I'd like to offer my own take on the Claws and Effect.... Cause and Effect... of the average age of our City of Heroes society.

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Yeah... it's a list... get over it...

1) At my age (40 or there-abouts) we were the generation who grew up with video games. Despite the fact we had to pay-per-play via quarter consumption in public arcades, we were the first gamers and have been most, if not all, of our lives.

2) The early games were not very twitch oriented because the gaming hardware just couldn't keep up with our reflexes. Let's face it; Space Invaders would put most younger gamers to sleep these days.

3) We existed in a world where comic books did not yet cost more than a dollar each. With a somewhat reasonable allowance you could get all your favorite titles to own each week and still ninja-read the ones you couldn't afford while the comic book store manager was looking the other way. These days kids don't have as much opportunity to buy every comic; at least not those without full time jobs and/or a silver spoon lodged in a handy orifice. As such we have a much deeper attachment and love for the genre.

4) City of Heroes is not a twitch game. It is, primarily, an RPG with just enough faster elements to keep your heart rate up. It substitutes the excitement of "Oh-My-Gawd-I-Hope-I-Can-Hit-The-Right-Button-In-Time" with "Maybe I shouldn't have turned the solo team size level up to 8 for the Malta Mission" brand excitement. It is aimed at those of us who prefer a more leisurely and... dare I say... social approach to our gaming experience.

5) City of Heroes remains true to the comic super heroes with whom we grew up. All those dreams you had back when your neck was still thin around enough to tie a towel as a cape can now be realized. Oh, sure we complain about it not being enough... we always want more features and options... but the very fact that we HAVE that hunger in the first place is an indication better than any other that we love the meal we're being fed.

So yeah, we may be a bit older than the average MMO or First-Person-Shooter-Battle-Game, but that's because we found a game that is custom made for us. I imagine a more fast-paced super hero game would appeal to the younger crowd because they didn't grow up on comic books... they grew up on super hero cartoons and movies. They think Raven and Beast Boy originated in Japan... Robin never died and was only marginally related to Batman... Wolverine is an average height guy... and Professor Xavier used to be a Starship Captain.

I don't know about the rest of you.... but I feel like they made City of Heroes just for me.... and my generation.

*Smells the prunish smell coming from this thread*

Kidding. Nowhere near most of the ages posted in this thread, but I hope to still be playing games myself when I hit that age.

My father in-law is 61 years old and his game collection puts mine to shame. At least when it comes to physical copies.

I'm 45. I run into people even older than I am once and awhile.

44 this year. My wife is older and plays, but if I say by how much she will hit me!

I'm 43, and I thought I was in the oldest range

I once played with a 72 year old. He was pleasantly spry on the keyboard for his advanced age. Don't know if he still plays though.
Guess the OP is not so alone as he thinks he is.
Which is nice.

It's fun to play with all y'all snapdragons: most of your parts are snapping and you keep dragin' yourselves everywhere! Heheheheeheheheh!

Also *Nelson Muntz's voice*
Aha! You're old!

I'm 23 soon to be 24 in 3 weeks and the oldest person i know in game was 50 odd...

and i have this... no matter what the toon is, way of lvling, noob moments to epic moments the age range in this game is awesome. a 8 yr old having a cracking time with a 50 60 yr old....your only as young as you want.

23 years here! These kids taking over our game! I remember the good old days when we didnt have MMOs, we had pokemon!

17 here, so I guess I'm just more proof of how many ages the game can pull in. Considering we've had mentions of 75-year-old (or thereabouts) people here as well, there's quite the age range. Maybe it's proof that we're all kids on the inside.

Would be interesting if someone could actually tell us the average age of a CoH/V player. Anyone got a clue?

46 here.

maybe us old timers could one day form an SG - what would we call ourselves? Depends on how we're feeling I guess.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

I'm also 17. One of the reasons I love this game is the community, which is overall really open and nice. ( I started playing in the summer, though I've wanted this game since I was twelve or so.) Like it was said before, I think the wide age range speaks a lot for the maturity level and how the boards are really nice to read. (I read them almost everyday) From what I've seen, we're more nice than other MMOs and that's something to be really proud of.