Just Curious: Age demographic of ESO players

DannyLV702 · August 2016

23, nearly 24

KochDerDamonen · August 2016

20, PC NA

Vaoh · August 2016

Age? That's easy.

I'm 18-29

Wrecking_Blow_Spam · August 2016

Some great variety here and stories. I spoke to a guy on xbox EU and he said he was in his 80s. He was american and well spoken. He sounded a bit like obama, was a chill guy.

Im 23

First games i can remember: pokemon yellow and silver (lvl 100 articuno ftw, bro had a lvl 100 quagsire) gameboy colour/advance, command and conquer red alert for ps1. Sonic hedghog, theres more but those are the only things i remember the name for.

Honestly didnt really consider myself a "gamer" my brother had all the consoles i just played with him.

Childhood memories maybe why i still play today, it sticks with you.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam · August 2016

I just realised regarding peoples ages, these forums are not as friendly as the ages suggest. I see quite a lot of hostile comments in threads.

LrdRahvin · August 2016

46

Grumpy since 1969.

Get off my lawn!

FloppyTouch · August 2016

30 ^ . ^ been playing mmos for 10 years now

Mayrael · August 2016

29 PC/EU First game played? Mario on Pegasus, PC would be Disciples.

Dyride · August 2016

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Eiagra · August 2016

PC, and I suppose technically my first gaming machine was an Apple ][+. Though if you want to speak strictly of consoles, my first would probably be an NES.

Still, those text adventures, man...

Trublz · August 2016

26 here. Most of the people I meet are well past their teens but there are definitely plenty of younger players. Why didn't you make a choice for teens? I was interested to see how may there are compared to us throwbacks
Game rating is irrelevant imo. Make a new poll with all choices available
Ps: RIP SWG

jedtb16_ESO · August 2016

65 eu pc

first thing i owned zx81 in 1981played pong on it after copying the program from a magazine.... surprisingly it worked first time

first online game essex mud in '84..... not on the zx81 i hasten to add.

Johngo0036 · August 2016

@Oberon45 - The funny thing is i know all these things you mentioned as i grew up with them too.... Asteroids was my favourite game, EVER on atari...

SHADOW2KK · August 2016

37 PC EU.

Still remember the old tape Amstrad then the CPC 6128 and the advent of the disc drive, varying Amigas, some consoles then PC.

Nostalgia...

Cazzy · August 2016

Those poll vote bars must be bliss for people with OCD

hamgatan · August 2016

37 PC NA

First PC.. BBC Acorn. But no games on it. First actual X086 based box was an Amstrad in the pinnacle era of Sierra games.

First Console - Atari Vortex

First Handheld - One of those original Nintendo handheld Donkey Kong LCD games which you could open up, flip the screen around in reverse and make it have a black screen with white LCD crystals.

First MMO - Technically not a MMO, but MUD's and Moo's. LPMUD Ritual Sacrifice in the early 90's.

TheUrbanWizard · August 2016

The game that got me going was Zelda: A Link To The Past on SNES. I remember that Christmas morning like yesterday. Did all-night sessions with the prima guide at a mates house.

Happy times!

siggi1856 · August 2016

36, MAC EU

My first computer was a C-64. ESO is my first MMO

altemriel · August 2016

Oberon45 wrote: »

As I have been reading these forums for a few weeks now, I am curious as to the age demographics of who is playing this game. Interested in seeing if it skews older or younger than I think. Poll is anonymous. However, feel free comment with info on whether you are on PC/MAC or Console and NA or EU (just curious if there is a difference within those subgroups).

Also, leave any interesting about your start to gaming (first video game played, first gaming system etc.)

Me: 40 - 49 XB1, NA
First video game: Pong, First Gaming System: Atari 2600, First Computer: Timex SInclair (yes, Timex once made computers!)

here is a poll about this that I made longer ago

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/230476/what-is-the-usual-age-insert-yours-into-poll-of-eso-players-poll/p1

Cazzy · August 2016

altemriel wrote: »

Oberon45 wrote: »

As I have been reading these forums for a few weeks now, I am curious as to the age demographics of who is playing this game. Interested in seeing if it skews older or younger than I think. Poll is anonymous. However, feel free comment with info on whether you are on PC/MAC or Console and NA or EU (just curious if there is a difference within those subgroups).

Also, leave any interesting about your start to gaming (first video game played, first gaming system etc.)

Me: 40 - 49 XB1, NA
First video game: Pong, First Gaming System: Atari 2600, First Computer: Timex SInclair (yes, Timex once made computers!)

here is a poll about this that I made longer ago

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/230476/what-is-the-usual-age-insert-yours-into-poll-of-eso-players-poll/p1

This one was made in August 2015 xD

The Uninvited · August 2016

Oberon45 wrote: »

First video game: Pong, First Gaming System: Atari 2600, First Computer: Timex SInclair (yes, Timex once made computers!)

45 here, I remember those Atari and Sinclair times.

The Uninvited · August 2016

Johngo0036 wrote: »

@Oberon45 - The funny thing is i know all these things you mentioned as i grew up with them too.... Asteroids was my favourite game, EVER on atari...

I played Asteroids up to the final level, only to see that it resets back to level 1 and starts all over once you completed the game.

lardvader · August 2016

35 PC EU

First games were probably Pacman, Pong and Gauntlet but first PC games were the early Leisure Suits Larry games and this is were I started to learn english.

First system was an old Commodore 128D that broke down on me twice (upgraded with final cartridge). In the early 90's I played mostly adventure games and bought about everything from Sierra and LucasArts. First computer was an IBM 286.

Biggest leap in tech was mid 90's when I bought my first 3D gfx, 3Dfx Iris pared with Matrox

- fond memories of playing glQuake with some friends all weekend.

I'm more of a cyberpunk / Fallout guy so I never bothered with the early TES games. Remeber my cousin wanted me to play Morrowind. Never got into the games until Skyrim just because I love the FO games so much and wanted to give it a try.

Marktoneth3 · August 2016

22 almost graduate from University PC/NA

Glamdring · August 2016

43, PC, EU. Gone the same route as many others in this thread. Pong, C64 and so on. Still got my Amiga500 which i sometimes fire up and play some favourite games with my tac-2 jsticks

Danikat · August 2016

I'm 31 and a bit disappointed that I've crossed over into a separate demographic now. Can't we do 18-25, 25-35 etc. instead?

I got started really young though. My first game was Hungry Horace on the ZX Spectrum and my parents first let me at it when I was 2. I actually remember simply enjoying poking the squishy rubber buttons and then becoming fascinated when I realised they controlled what happened on the TV. That was a big deal in the UK in the late 80's. No on demand TV, no recording, we didn't even have a video player at that point so controlling the TV usually meant switching between the 4 channels hoping for something good.

Needless to say it was a long time before I really had any clue what I was doing even in that one game, which was a basic Pac-man ripoff. But I've always stuck with it. We had various PCs throughout my childhood (usually not very good ones because my dad got them from work after they upgraded) and they always had games on them. I remember being banned from playing Doom while my mum ate breakfast because she said it sounded like throwing up when they died.

My first RPG was a DnD game I later found out was called Eye of the Beholder. I didn't really understand it, not helped by the fact that I didn't know what 'Str', 'Con', 'Dex' etc. stood for and didn't know what words like 'Constitution' and 'Dexterity' meant anyway. I remember working out that a half-giant made a better fighter and an elf was a better mage but beyond that I think I just picked whatever sounded interesting and hoped for big numbers to pop up when I was in a fight.

But I was (and am) obsessed with fantasy, especially anything with elves and/or dragons. Helped a lot by my local library, the sci-fi / fantasy section was right next to the children's section so when I grew out of the kids books and couldn't stomach reading "young adult" books about teenage girls afterschool clubs and all the drama when 'OMG a boy might have looked at me' I went looking for something else I stumbled straight into that section and never needed to look any further.

tl:dr I was always a massive geek and my parents were ahead of the game with getting into computers so it was kind of inevitable I'd be a gamer.

ArchMikem · August 2016

I can't recall what my VERY first video game was. I do remember a Super Nintendo at my grandparents house we'd get to play on during our Sunday dinner visits. And with that was Mario. And funnily enough, I was playing quite a few games on the PC until they came out with the original Xbox, and that puppy introduced me to the wonderful worlds of Console Gaming and Halo. Ever since then I've had to have an Xbox in my room, though I also do some PC gaming as well, but only titles my "economy class" computer can handle.

24, Xbox 1, NA
(I own a copy of ESO on PC, just in case btw)

LordNilloc · August 2016

36 (37 in 3 weeks.) Xbox, NA.

MishMash · August 2016

My first gaming system was the Atari 2600. I remember seeing the commercial on TV from Sears, and asking Santa for it

Had to add this ... hold onto your seats peeps.... the action here is too hot for most!
https://youtu.be/MhXMYw1lXY0

hamburgerler76 · August 2016

23 here

bin gaming since i was 5 and dont plan to stop any time soon!