Just Curious: Age demographic of ESO players

Oberon45

Fissh wrote: »

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

Absolutely true. For me, it was truly a just out of curiosity thing (and to help pass the time on a slow day at the office until I can get home and play tonight). It has succeeded though in letting me know that there are more gamers in my particular demo playing than I would have suspected going in.

AH93

22, PC, EU

First game I can remember playing is Spyro on the PS1.

Fissh

Oberon45 wrote: »

Fissh wrote: »

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

Absolutely true. For me, it was truly a just out of curiosity thing (and to help pass the time on a slow day at the office until I can get home and play tonight). It has succeeded though in letting me know that there are more gamers in my particular demo playing than I would have suspected going in.

Never fear friend. Middle aged demographic as been the dominating one in MMOs for a long time.

silvernightscape

38 years old
MAC/NA server

I've played other games on Nintendo, Sega, Playstation etc, but this is my first MMO. I wasn't much of a computer game player. I started playing Skyrim after my boyfriend introduced it to me when it came out. I loved it. Now we play ESO together . Hopefully it won't be my last MMO. Trying to figure out what others I might like.

Rosveen

ESO used to be rated 16+ in Europe before Tamriel Unlimited. Anyhow, M rating doesn't mean younger people can't play. It isn't legally binding in most countries, it's just a guidance stores usually voluntarily adhere to. I know for a fact there are younger teenagers among us.

To answer your question: 22, PC, EU. My first game? I'm not sure,, but some of my earliest gaming memories include Jazz Jackrabbit, Tomb Raider 2 on my friend's Playstation and watching my cousin play GTA Vice City. How's that for "not suitable for children"?

Kloud

Yep

Pallmor

Fissh wrote: »

Oberon45 wrote: »

Fissh wrote: »

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

Absolutely true. For me, it was truly a just out of curiosity thing (and to help pass the time on a slow day at the office until I can get home and play tonight). It has succeeded though in letting me know that there are more gamers in my particular demo playing than I would have suspected going in.

Never fear friend. Middle aged demographic as been the dominating one in MMOs for a long time.

This game attracts more middle aged men than a Van Halen concert.

RizaHawkeye

24 1/2 here ... and I feel like a baby! NA computer server, been playing for three weeks.

Moonscythe

Older than dirt here but didn't play computer/console games until I got my first Mac in 1993. My first real game was Myst for which I bought a CD drive and decent speakers along with the game. My first console game was Morrowind and i still prefer console to computer for action games.

There does seem to be a persistent interest in how old we all are since these polls keep reappearing. BTW, I'm also of the female persuasion.

Tommy_valkyria

23, Ps4 NA.
First game was pong, my brother wouldn't let me play the Nes until I graduated on the atari, then moved to a Sega genesis.
Never owned a PC until this year when I bought an HP beats. Always aligned myself with Sony when it came to consoles, but I have a 360 account that has over 500 hours logged on oblivion. Sadly never got to really experience morrowind.

Xendyn

Pallmor wrote: »

Never fear friend. Middle aged demographic as been the dominating one in MMOs for a long time.

This game attracts more middle aged men than a Van Halen concert.[/quote]

Yes, but David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar?

PBpsy

28.
First games Warcraft 1 ,Dune 1,Dune 2. On a my father's 386. Twenty years ago.

psicorpb16_ESO

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)

Damn I remember 'Outside' it was a wonderful place with Crab Apple fights , damming streams, building fires .... Those were the days.

Wonder if 'Outside' is ftp or sub based nowadays, I never hear much about it.

J2JMC

Expecting anyone below 18 to participate would've been foolish anyway considering how online gaming communities always berate younger audiences. This excludes anyone who may post as a reaction to my post.

PBpsy

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

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)

Damn I remember 'Outside' it was a wonderful place with Crab Apple fights , damming streams, building fires .... Those were the days.

Wonder if 'Outside' is ftp or sub based nowadays, I never hear much about it.

I checked Outside recently. The graphics haven't aged that nicely.

amatic

jkemmery wrote: »

Oberon45 wrote: »

First Computer: Timex SInclair (yes, Timex once made computers!)

Yeah but to be fair, the Timex Sinclair, was just a re-branded ZX81. Yeah I'm that old too.

Old school. .i was sinclair zx32..first games manic miner and jet set willy..37 years old.

psicorpb16_ESO

PBpsy wrote: »

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

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)

Damn I remember 'Outside' it was a wonderful place with Crab Apple fights , damming streams, building fires .... Those were the days.

Wonder if 'Outside' is ftp or sub based nowadays, I never hear much about it.

I checked Outside recently. The graphics haven't aged that nicely.

There's an addon for that I think , something like @specsavers.

UrQuan

PBpsy wrote: »

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

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)

Damn I remember 'Outside' it was a wonderful place with Crab Apple fights , damming streams, building fires .... Those were the days.

Wonder if 'Outside' is ftp or sub based nowadays, I never hear much about it.

I checked Outside recently. The graphics haven't aged that nicely.

The real problem is the lack of a functional UI. I mean, sure, I understand that it was designed with immersion in mind, but the result is that you have no idea what the stats are on anything without doing some serious data mining.

Eshelmen

27 and have been playing MMOS for about 15 years.

Corpsage

Very cool to see we have such a diverse age range in the game.

I myself am 25. Been playing since '93-'94, as soon as my dad let me get my grubby mitts on his old gray brick of a Gameboy where I would attempt to build and demolish walls in Tetris or get to be the second player in Super Mario World on the good ole' SNES. Thanks to OP for bringing back the great memories

Dagoth_Rac

Age = 40

PC - NA - DC

First arcade video game = Asteroids

First gaming system = Atari 2600

First computer = Commodore 64

First MMO = ESO

Fissh

UrQuan wrote: »

PBpsy wrote: »

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

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)

Damn I remember 'Outside' it was a wonderful place with Crab Apple fights , damming streams, building fires .... Those were the days.

Wonder if 'Outside' is ftp or sub based nowadays, I never hear much about it.

I checked Outside recently. The graphics haven't aged that nicely.

The real problem is the lack of a functional UI. I mean, sure, I understand that it was designed with immersion in mind, but the result is that you have no idea what the stats are on anything without doing some serious data mining.

I am still working on my outside "rotation". And the gear grind is infinte....

starlizard70ub17_ESO

55 here, started on a Commedor 64 with Sid Mierer's Pirates and Sim City.

psicorpb16_ESO

Think my first game was 'bomber' (or something like that) on bbc micro, was a linear scrolling plane bombing cities .....

Damn that was a long time ago

Xendyn

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

Think my first game was 'bomber' (or something like that) on bbc micro, was a linear scrolling plane bombing cities .....

Damn that was a long time ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNEcQS4tXgQ

psicorpb16_ESO

Xendyn wrote: »

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

Think my first game was 'bomber' (or something like that) on bbc micro, was a linear scrolling plane bombing cities .....

Damn that was a long time ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNEcQS4tXgQ

Jeez that was long , look I know I'm old but I don't have enough time left to listen to that **** ,
You owe me 5 mins

Xendyn

psicorpb16_ESO wrote: »

Jeez that was long , look I know I'm old but I don't have enough time left to listen to that **** ,
You owe me 5 mins

Hmpf
If you ain't old enough for the feels, man...
You ain't old enough

djnapstyb14_ESO

Xendyn wrote: »

Pallmor wrote: »

Never fear friend. Middle aged demographic as been the dominating one in MMOs for a long time.

This game attracts more middle aged men than a Van Halen concert.

Yes, but David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar?[/quote]

i think if you were to go back in time and kill those 2 guys in the 70s, van halen might have been good

LaughingJack

nearly 45 (sept.)

ColecoVision, Atari 2600, Commodore64 (ahh, what wonders could be achieved with only 64K of ram - FFW'ding the tape in the Old's hi-fi to find the program start), Amiga500 (with memory upgrade to a whopping 512K! - does anyone remember the days of demo disks?), Amiga1200, Amiga CD32 (with SX-1 expansion), PentiumPro180 (with a FireGL card), then a few more PC's i built after that. now looking towards my next build in anticipation of Squad being released.
played (PC) mainly shooters - quake, unreal, MoH, BF's and of course the best game ever Joint Operations (with all the mods).
also just managed to fix an ailing, original Donkey Kong game+watch! forgot how much of a challenge it was to get far, lols!

flintstone

Age 64........I was lucky enough to retire at 51 and that"s when I started playing games (mostly with my kids and grand kids). This game is my first MMO though..... so I'm just a beginner.