Just Curious: Age demographic of ESO players

jackiemanuel

41, Xbox NA

RavenSkylord

36 PS4/NA

First game systems Pong and Atari
First PC Commodore 64
Remember BBS as well, even ran one

BaconMagic

34, XB NA. Been gaming since Atari 2600 then NES and almost every major console thereafter. My true gaming love however was a PC game, a MUD from the early 90s that is still running today, GemStone IV by Simutronics. Played for over a decade. The depth of the game, real time GM interventions and story lines, and strong community of role players kept me around for a long long time.Graphical MMOs were never really my thing, WoW was too cartoony compared to the rich imagined world of text, DAoC was popular but still too pixelated, but ESO strikes that balance between fantasy world and graphical fidelity to make it seem very much alive. I'm glad I waited for the 'next gen' MMO to dive in.

Uriel_Nocturne

38

Xbox One NA Ebonheart (always).

I'm a PC and Xbox Gamer.

My first console was the Atari 2600, first "PC" was the Commodore 64. Since then, I've always kept up with PC gaming, but really didn't get into console gaming until the NES. Since then, I've owned the Super NES, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Xbox, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, and now the Xbox One (actually, I have two One's).

My rig is running an i7 w/double-stacked 8gb GTX Titans and 16gb RAM.

I'm fortunate to have married a wife who is also a Gamer, and she has really taken to ESO on the One. So, my Gaming hobby isn't an issue since she shares it with me.

QueenCandy

48 years old. First gaming I did was on my brother's apple computer which I think was an Apple II. It had a tape drive and it took 20 mins or so to load Pole position. He even had the joystick with it so me and my sister could play.

Takes-No-Prisoner

30, first MMO was Ragnarok Online, first game though



FF2(AKA FF4 in Japan) Now back in those days they had some nightmare fuel monsters like this total rear end of a monster.

Uriel_Nocturne

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

Eriquito3 wrote: »

Liking that I am seeing quite a few seasoned gamers.

They used oregano on me because I am Italian.

You're lucky. I'm German, so they just rubbed a bunch of sausage on me...

Loomis

43 ps4 NA

Bacon

31 Xbox-NA

Started on the NES playing Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt, and D&D on an Intellivision. Picked up an Atari a few years later along with a Sega Genesis. Never was one for PC gaming but have about 15 different consoles I still play from time to time. My N64 is still my favorite.

First online game was Quake 3 arena on my Sega Dreamcast. Don't miss my old dial up connection. This was one of the only games I got and played for years on a PC after I got high speed internet

psicorpb16_ESO

42, all I'm gonna say is Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy

kyrowski

45
EU PC
Started with a pong machine before moving on to an Atari 2600, Commodore 64 and then various Amiga's

First MMO was SWG before you know what and then moved on to EQ2.
Been a bit of a MMO nomad since then always trying to find the next SWG and knowing it'll never happen.

BabeestorGor

Me: 50, PC, EU

Started gaming back in the 70s with SPI, AH and GDW boardgames then D&D, Runequest and other pnp RPGs.
1st videogame was a ripoff of pong and space invaders, a sort of early console that connected to the tv.
1st CRPG was NWN, 1st TES game was Morrowind.

Eriquito3

Waffennacht wrote: »

Im 27. First game was battle toads (something like that) on the NES.

I only use game systems, my family was never into being up to date with computers and i can't afford one capable of playing such games, so xbox for me

Ohh man I remember battletoads, loved that game

nine9six

I'm 29, but my birthday is in November. I don't want to be in the other group lol.

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

FF2(AKA FF4 in Japan) Now back in those days they had some nightmare fuel monsters like this total rear end of a monster.

One of my first RPGs, and still my favorite FF.

Enteum

31 myself. My father gave me the Orange pong machine when I was very young. It also had a light gun with it to shoot a square pixel iirc.

My first computer though was Amiga 600 with a game called Agony. Side scrolling shooter where you played an owl (well, a wizard that was turned into an owl.

First online game was Myth II Soulblighter. Great game!!

Pallmor

45, PS4 NA
First console was an Atari 2600
First computer was a Commodore VIC20

GhostShadows

37 here, my 1st video game if i remeber was shinobi on ZX Spectrum k7.
nice game with 4 colours only.
1st mmorpg was "Last chaos" from aeria games

Deadfinger6

Makes me happy that theres such wide age range...will have to listen out more on Chat for 1970 references and moaning about kids.

Ace_of_Destiny

Deadfinger6 wrote: »

Makes me happy that theres such wide age range...will have to listen out more on Chat for 1970 references and moaning about kids.

I find it funny you picked 1970.
I was born on Matin Luther King Junior's birthday of that year.

Kloud

27 here I played the atari and nes snes ps1 xbox ps3 ps4 pc. I played eso on the pc. first games I remember was mario and I also played battle toads I played morrowwind on xbox then every tes game since. Was a huge ff7 fan. first mmo was runescape back in 2002 I was 12 didn't play long before a friend recommended ultima online to me in 03 I played uo on and off up in till 2014 my first pc was my cousin ibm desktop I never bought a pc of my own untill I was much older 17 I bought a cheap hp my first gaming laptop when I was 22 a Asus republic of gamers g574sx and now I own a msi titan with duel gtx 970ms I played wow a short time played league of legends in 2012 and still play on occasion but all I mainly play is eso played beta bought the game when it first released got to lvl 10 and didn't play again until January in 1.5 been playing every day since love the gane

Surragard

I'd be curious to breakdown the 18-29 range a bit and see how big the college crowd is. Also starting at 18 eliminates the high school and younger crowd, which may be coming in more heavily now with console launch.

Volkodav

61 here! .
Ive been playing video games since 99.First game Diablo Battle Chest.Morrowind is my favorite of them all.
I built my own Gaming PC,and I play on the NA server.

UrQuan

Surragard wrote: »

I'd be curious to breakdown the 18-29 range a bit and see how big the college crowd is. Also starting at 18 eliminates the high school and younger crowd, which may be coming in more heavily now with console launch.

I suspect the poll started at 18 rather than younger because of the game being rated mature, so folks younger than that aren't supposed to be playing it. Although now that I think about it, doesn't that mean 17+ rather than 18+?

Xendyn

54 lol
We played Pong on the TV in the den. We were only allowed to play in the evenings tho. We actually had to go Outside and play (you know, climb trees, build forts and stuff)
I did get an Atari at some point, Jungle Hunt was one of my favorites. Spent a lot of quarters in the Arcades and got Pac Man elbow Anyone remember the first Laser Disc game, Dragon's Lair?
Somewhere in there was a regular D&D pnp group and I've always enjoyed board games.
Never had a PC until about the early 90's, but I haven't been without one since

NewBlacksmurf

Curious about how many are not actually 18 but voted as such cause there is no lesser age to choose.

Tholian1

Xendyn wrote: »

54 lol
We played Pong on the TV in the den. We were only allowed to play in the evenings tho. We actually had to go Outside and play (you know, climb trees, build forts and stuff)
I did get an Atari at some point, Jungle Hunt was one of my favorites. Spent a lot of quarters in the Arcades and got Pac Man elbow Anyone remember the first Laser Disc game, Dragon's Lair?
Somewhere in there was a regular D&D pnp group and I've always enjoyed board games.
Never had a PC until about the early 90's, but I haven't been without one since

I liked Space Ace better than Dragon's Lair. So much of my allowance and lunch money got spent on that game.

And I never imagined that, one day, I would have it on my phone.

Oberon45

I suspect the poll started at 18 rather than younger because of the game being rated mature, so folks younger than that aren't supposed to be playing it. Although now that I think about it, doesn't that mean 17+ rather than 18+?
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I started it at 18 exactly for that reason. However, you are correct and I should have done 17+. I should have double-checked the ERSB rating guidelines.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

34

Been gaming since 1986 because it took a year for my mom to pay off my Nintendo on lay away!

Fissh

This poll only gets you a demographic of the forums, nothing more. How many console kiddies use forums? For instance.

Fissh

39
Pong
Atari and Commodore 64

djnapstyb14_ESO wrote: »

34 pc/xbox NA
Good poll! Made me feel less old

Actually, the dominating demographic for MMOS is middle aged men for a long time.