Am I the oldest player in the City?
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Posted on: 2010-04-02 13:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I have to admit, this is the only MMO I've played, and I've played a few, where there isn't any snot nosed pre-pubescent norks out to screw the fanbase up. I've had negative experiences on every MMO I've played, apart from this one. Although I haven't been playing that long.
I think this just reflects our constantly changing idle activities and hobbies in these modern times. By the 30s it was radio, in 50s it was television, in the 70s it was cable television, in the 90s it was the Internet, now, as the Oughts of the new century end, it's these games.
Maybe we should be shouldn't be surprised. Personal computers and software games have been around a long time, the number of people intimidated by them has been diminishing steadily for a long time now. I've heard that a lot of "old people" bought and played all the variations of the Sims too.
And really, nerd subculture is at least as old as humanity--I think. It's just as that it makes a lot more money these days so everyone has stated to pay attention.
Anyway, I'm not as surprised by all this I might have been say, 10 years ago.
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I hit level cap in age last year, and will finally get that 51st level later this year. My regular group is all folks in their 30's and 40s.
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I hit level cap in age last year, and will finally get that 51st level later this year.
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I'm eighteen and I managed to catch that wave. Admittedly, I'm already starting to feel old when me and my friends say things like 'God, back in our day a gameboy was the height of technology. And that was before the multicolour version!'|
Originally Posted by EU_Damz
23 years here!
 These kids taking over our game! I remember the good old days when we didnt have MMOs, we had pokemon! |
I do like the range of people this game draws in.
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Also complaining about 'those kids who think they're so grown-up with their camera phones and their wireless facetube access'. I remember when kids in Britain would enjoy their friends' company, and when they could say a sentance without every other word being some form of profanity.
47 here.
Youngest person I played with (that I know of) was 14 at the time - 18 now and still playing.
Oldest (that I know of currently) is a 65-year-old grandmother in my SG.
My father was playing this game at age 70 (and eventually got bored with it and went back to EQ2). He never liked Champions, either (pen & paper version) but liked D&D.
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StormSurvivor doesn't creak yet: I'm eighteen and I managed to catch that wave. Admittedly, I'm already starting to feel old when me and my friends say things like 'God, back in our day a gameboy was the height of technology. And that was before the multicolour version!' |
Dec out.
Okay here's old.
And no it isn't a laptop without a screen
You used to play games on these, three colours, yellow, black and white. Games were on Cassette tape and would take on average 15 minutes to load and would make an awful noise while loading.
You young'uns never had it so good!!
Oooo! I still have mine!
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Oooo! I still have mine!
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And your Spectrum too?
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Crap, now I wish I'd saved mine. I did have one of those in your pic, but since this needed to be connected to a tape recorder, I never used it. I had a newer version, I think, that had the cassette reader built into the device, and mine had at least four colours, roughly comparable to CGA graphics of later times.|
Originally Posted by Nite Wraith
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Man, that had some good games on it, too. The sinisterly hard Green Berets, the awesome Army Moves, and who doesn't remember Jetpack? But that thing was a pain and a half to load games in. The awful sound already mentioned, the minutes and minutes of strange wavy lines and psychedelic graphics on your TV screen...
I still have a box of old games for that, too, though most of them I didn't play. Things like Gauntlet, Attic Attack, Lunar Jetman and the various vector space sims I was just too young to really appreciate, being, what... 5? A lot of old games like that I remember as being hideously hard and utterly confusing, only to go back to them and find out I was simply too stupid to grasp basic concepts, and they're actually quite easy. Not Green Berets, of course, but still
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Nite Wraith brings out the artifact: Okay here's old. And no it isn't a laptop without a screen You used to play games on these, three colours, yellow, black and white. Games were on Cassette tape and would take on average 15 minutes to load and would make an awful noise while loading. |
Dec out.
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But back in the day we didn't know any better. the 48k had 7 colours and the 128k had the built in tape drive IIRC
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Crap, now I wish I'd saved mine. I did have one of those in your pic, but since this needed to be connected to a tape recorder, I never used it. I had a newer version, I think, that had the cassette reader built into the device, and mine had at least four colours, roughly comparable to CGA graphics of later times.
Man, that had some good games on it, too. The sinisterly hard Green Berets, the awesome Army Moves, and who doesn't remember Jetpack? But that thing was a pain and a half to load games in. The awful sound already mentioned, the minutes and minutes of strange wavy lines and psychedelic graphics on your TV screen... I still have a box of old games for that, too, though most of them I didn't play. Things like Gauntlet, Attic Attack, Lunar Jetman and the various vector space sims I was just too young to really appreciate, being, what... 5? A lot of old games like that I remember as being hideously hard and utterly confusing, only to go back to them and find out I was simply too stupid to grasp basic concepts, and they're actually quite easy. Not Green Berets, of course, but still |
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Hopefully, someday we'll be able to tell someone.."I was playing this game when you were still in diapers!!!!"
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Originally Posted by Duncan_Frost
Thank christ, after reading this thread I thought I was the only person under the age of 30 playing the drat game...
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Thanks for that, Tormentoso. I know it's not even close to all-encompassing data, but it's interesting all the same.
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Originally Posted by Tormentoso
Quick calculate.
Based on 52 confessions here (me being #52 with 31 years): Average age is 39.8. Standard Deviation: 15.7 |
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isn't this game 16+? they had better been supervised |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I met an 8 year old the other evening, so the player base age spread is at least 52 years - which is rather cool
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I'm young as far as vet awards go (12 months in April) and apparently pretty young around here too. 29, I hit the new 20 this year (screw you 30, we came up with a new age in this decade ahahahahaha!) got 2 kids and a fiance who hates video games except for Mario 2....and ONLY mario 2 lol.
Pfft. My first video game was trying not to be the closest one to the tv set so I didn't have to change the channel.
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I am 34 here...my little girl will play my characters but only flies around and talks to people...LOL....she is 6...
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Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex
I'm 56 and I too have had a life long love of comics and science fiction . Not sure if I have lived a regular life . Been married for 34 years this year and raised two kids.
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who cares about "regular"? i just know that you've done it right...
I'm ONLY 34 (i love you old fogies) and i play with a group that's minimum age is 30, fun bunch, very casual, very friendly........... and very dirty
was brought into the game by a guy at work, who I'm pretty sure is 179........ well maybe not, but durned close. when I joined i steeled myself for the juvenile vitriol that is the mainstay of most MMO's, been pleasantly surprised every day since then, and for that, i love all of you folks.
Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.
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Before that I had an Emerson generic Pong game.
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Nealy 61 here. And wonder how many players even know of Jack Benny. : )|
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By the way, back to the topic, with a nod to Jack Benny, none of us are really over age 39 (so we've celebrated a few age 39 birthdays).
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