Just Curious: Age demographic of ESO players

pepperybrine

My first game was Bob the Builder for the PC

Desommettor

I'm 24 and been playing MMOrpg's since i was 8 so I'm going on 16 years.

Egonieser

My first gaming system was a Zhiliton 8bit console in 1990, but in 1995 my parents bought a top end PC for it's time! It had 128mb RAM and a 500Mhz Pentium CPU with 2gb HDD, it was a real beast and expensive as hell. Ever since I've been a PC enthusiast through and through, underpowered consoles never entertained me as my PC's have always been leagues above every and any console generation. Constantly upgrading my rig, not because i need it for what i do, but because i enjoy it.
Now i have programming, system administration, computer enginnering PH.D's and I make, fix, repair and configure computers for customers in my own, relaxed, self-employed atmosphere.

A childhood impression of a hardware device paved the path for my future and career and gaming preference.

Soulshine

Well, based on those replying anyway it seems people over 30 far outweigh those replying who are under 30. Probably a good thing - playing computer games is such a sedentary thing... when I was under 30 I was way too busy with school, work and playing other things to sit still long enough for leveling anything, lol. First time I actually dedicated time from my life to gaming, I was 34.

I wonder what will, if anything (given the current state of the industry snd this genre in particular...) ever replace or surpass in popularity the seeking of computer/console as a source of entertainment. Seems already such an old modality, getting right up there with TV...and sometimes just as bland. What's in the future? VR?

Caesar Tantalia

Soulshine wrote: »

Well, based on those replying anyway it seems people over 30 far outweigh those replying who are under 30. Probably a good thing - playing computer games is such a sedentary thing... when I was under 30 I was way too busy with school, work and playing other things to sit still long enough for leveling anything, lol. First time I actually dedicated time from my life to gaming, I was 34.

I wonder what will, if anything (given the current state of the industry snd this genre in particular...) ever replace or surpass in popularity the seeking of computer/console as a source of entertainment. Seems already such an old modality, getting right up there with TV...and sometimes just as bland. What's in the future? VR?

Well, I for one hope to explore the ESO universe in full 3D so yeah to VR. Imagine dungeon crawling in 3D :-0

Nifty2g

21

drzycki_ESO

57 here and grandpa is 67. We play with our son and grandchildren. I love when I get a hate tell in Cyrodill when I kill someone. It's fun to let them know they were just killed by a little old lady.

tisch28

Me: 23 PC, NA

First video game: Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt
First Gaming System: N64
First Computer: Acer laptop (2gb ram, dual turion cpu)
First MMO : D2

UrQuan

Since we seem to be listing our first gaming experiences here (which I'll admit, I find very interesting), I'll join in.

First played games on the family Commodore 64 (which we got right when it was released), with the first ones I played being a maze game that my dad coded, a platform game called Wizard (I think), a winter olympics ripoff called Winter Games, and a slightly strange game called Attack of the Mutant Camels.

Eventually we got an Atari 2600, then a Collecovision, and we switched to a series of Amigas for our computers. It wasn't until high school that I first played games on a PC (at the time we called them IBM-compatibles, and I think the first one I played any games on was a 286).

As you may guess from my user ID, I played a lot of Star Control and Star Control 2 once I started playing PC games...

Oberon45

I loved the Commodore 64. I had a cool baseball game on it (no graphics other than a picture of a diamond with the runner ratings of any players on base). It was great because it had all the great world series teams from 1906 - 1981 or so. I played a 120 game season with 16 of them to see who was the best team of all-time. The end result is that the Yankees of 1927 needed to be seriously nerfed.

Tennetty

Apple ][ + was my first computer... Ah green screen oh how I miss you.
First RPG games were Ultima 2 and Wizardry.

One would think that with all the complaining on these forums that the average age is much lower (or much higher).

zharthasb16_ESO

Male, 53 - Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, King quest series , alot of sierra and lucasats games .. first mmo wow BC ..

First pc was Texas Instrument TI99/A , pc mac apple 2e , pc x86 (with DOS 3.0)

vonScuzzman

First game was Oregon Trail on a teletype at a whopping 12 characters per second

"you are attacked, type BANG"

Banky71

I am 43 soon to be 44. I am a professional musician(I write commercial jingles) My first videogame system was Telstar and Pong I got them on the same day. My first computer was a Tandy. I like bright shiny objects and the color blue. I am an orphan so that means I get to step on as many cracks as I want and never have to worry about someone's spine so that's a positive. I was adopted by Mr. Warbucks when I was little but he used to make me call him "daddy" so that was weird. I would run around the mansion and people would randomly break into song and I would sometimes lead the songs so that was always cool. I have had many awesome jobs in my life including professional jouster and juggler but I never tried to do these to things at the same time. I believe in separation out jouster and juggler which is pretty much my religion. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask and I am an open book as I am writing a memoir. Some of these things I have said are 100% true and some have been embellished for legal reasons.

Xendyn

drzycki_ESO wrote: »

57 here and grandpa is 67. We play with our son and grandchildren. I love when I get a hate tell in Cyrodill when I kill someone. It's fun to let them know they were just killed by a little old lady.

RL belly laugh for that one You go, you Bloodthirsty little old lady.
(wouldn't happen to be from Pasadena would you?)

Xendyn

Banky71 wrote: »

I am 43 soon to be 44. I am a professional musician(I write commercial jingles) My first videogame system was Telstar and Pong I got them on the same day. My first computer was a Tandy. I like bright shiny objects and the color blue. I am an orphan so that means I get to step on as many cracks as I want and never have to worry about someone's spine so that's a positive. I was adopted by Mr. Warbucks when I was little but he used to make me call him "daddy" so that was weird. I would run around the mansion and people would randomly break into song and I would sometimes lead the songs so that was always cool. I have had many awesome jobs in my life including professional jouster and juggler but I never tried to do these to things at the same time. I believe in separation out jouster and juggler which is pretty much my religion. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask and I am an open book as I am writing a memoir. Some of these things I have said are 100% true and some have been embellished for legal reasons.

Ok, I'll bite.
Where the heck do you do Professional Jousting? (I consider professional to be paid or something) Medieval Times or someplace?

Banky71

Xendyn wrote: »

Banky71 wrote: »

I am 43 soon to be 44. I am a professional musician(I write commercial jingles) My first videogame system was Telstar and Pong I got them on the same day. My first computer was a Tandy. I like bright shiny objects and the color blue. I am an orphan so that means I get to step on as many cracks as I want and never have to worry about someone's spine so that's a positive. I was adopted by Mr. Warbucks when I was little but he used to make me call him "daddy" so that was weird. I would run around the mansion and people would randomly break into song and I would sometimes lead the songs so that was always cool. I have had many awesome jobs in my life including professional jouster and juggler but I never tried to do these to things at the same time. I believe in separation out jouster and juggler which is pretty much my religion. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask and I am an open book as I am writing a memoir. Some of these things I have said are 100% true and some have been embellished for legal reasons.

Ok, I'll bite.
Where the heck do you do Professional Jousting? (I consider professional to be paid or something) Medieval Times or someplace?

Very good questions. I worked at various Renn Faires in the US as a jouster. I also worked as a juggler at these same faires. It was a very rigid training period I went through to learn. I because a juggler because I didn't have insurance.

kevlarto_ESO

Male 57, First computer TS 80 Level I First game was on a cassette tape, Dungeons of Magdar, black and white, stick figure on a grid.

I was a huge Commodore 64 fan, started playing games on BBS with a 64 baud modem.

I advanced to Mudz and later Meridan59 which was the first graphical mmo I played, been playing them ever since.
I still pvp like a mad man..:)

Xendyn

Banky71 wrote: »

Ok, I'll bite.
Where the heck do you do Professional Jousting? (I consider professional to be paid or something) Medieval Times or someplace?

Very good questions. I worked at various Renn Faires in the US as a jouster. I also worked as a juggler at these same faires. It was a very rigid training period I went through to learn. I because a juggler because I didn't have insurance.
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Ok, that was my second guess. Never really thought about them being paid workers, altho because of the training and danger that makes sense. I thought of them as RL RPers that do it for a hobby.

Tolmos

Even though the game is rated M, I'd definitely be interesting in a below 18 ranking. I think a lot of those 18-29s you see are actually less than 18.

newtinmpls

Caesar Tantalia wrote: »

Just to make you go nuts - I found a way to make "atlantis" lore friendly :-)))

Well... that will be a short trip for me <g>

Sounds fun for you to work on. I was too chicken to mess with the construction set. Maybe I'll try it some time.

newtinmpls

vonScuzzman wrote: »

First game was Oregon Trail on a teletype at a whopping 12 characters per second

"you are attacked, type BANG"

Oh my god. .... I was wrong

My first computer game was "lunar lander" no graphics and physically it looked like a modem the size of a suitcase. My dad would bring it home from work (he designed 'puters - and among other things the lunar lander and the stealth bomber) You got a line of type telling you the distance your ship was from the surface of the moon, and you could type in if you wanted to apply breaking fuel for the next ten seconds, and if so, how much. You had a finite amount of fuel and time.

I never succeeded.

Eirella

Female, 26 (27 on the 11th ). First game was......I *think* Super Mario Bros on NES.

Banky71

Xendyn wrote: »

Banky71 wrote: »

Ok, I'll bite.
Where the heck do you do Professional Jousting? (I consider professional to be paid or something) Medieval Times or someplace?

Very good questions. I worked at various Renn Faires in the US as a jouster. I also worked as a juggler at these same faires. It was a very rigid training period I went through to learn. I because a juggler because I didn't have insurance.

Ok, that was my second guess. Never really thought about them being paid workers, altho because of the training and danger that makes sense. I thought of them as RL RPers that do it for a hobby.[/quote]

Well this was back in the early 90's and back then it was a pretty good paying job. I am sure it's not so great anymore lol

McI

30 here. I play on NA PC server. First MMO was Dark Age of Camelot, played that for a long, long, time...

Xendyn

Banky71 wrote: »

Well this was back in the early 90's and back then it was a pretty good paying job. I am sure it's not so great anymore lol

*laughs a bit at the early 90's being "back then"

Banky71

Xendyn wrote: »

Banky71 wrote: »

Well this was back in the early 90's and back then it was a pretty good paying job. I am sure it's not so great anymore lol

*laughs a bit at the early 90's being "back then"

lol I mean I know how crazy that sounds but people in that industry made more back then.

NovaMarx

27 PC/EU Wow, I feel so young!

I grew up in Japan, so we had computers and other gadgets before everyone else we knew (we're Danish). And I especially remember my older brother getting his first GameBoy! He was so happy to be the first one out of everyone he knew (back in Denmark) to get one! I had to wait a few years to get one, though, as my parents deemed me too young at the time. But I still have mine, and it still works!

KanedaSyndrome

Age: 34
Gender: Male
Location: Denmark - Europe
Platform: PC Windows 7 Pro 64bit

First gaming experiences being Commodore 64 with both tape and floppy loaders. Amiga 500 (didn't own any of these though).

NES at home with favorite Mario games, especially Super Mario Bros 3.

Intel 80486 machines with 4MB RAM at the school library where we would install the first Command & Conquer and play in LAN when the adults couldn't bother to send us away.

And many many more gaming experiences throughout my life, and still counting. Gamer at heart.

Terranjoe

All of you old people half of you could be my dad lol. Its nice to see people of all ages playing!

I play on NA PC, and the first games I remember playing were star wars racer on the n64 and donkey kong 64.