ESO for Older Than Average Players

FargoTaurus_Z · June 2019

As I recently retired and myself being an older than most gamers... I started wondering... if ESO (or on-line gaming in general) has considered the benefit (and market share) of developing a niche in their games for the OTAG (Older Than Average Gamer) community... these are Players not so interested in gaming for Glory or Esteem... but a slower based, repetitive experience to satisfy a casual player, yet immersive enough to keep them engaged and interactive... The one example I can think of off the top of my head.. Fishing... my own father, now dead for 8 years was an avid Fisherman... if the developers could make a fishing pool "furnishing item"... capable of being placed in a Home with some rewards for harvesting (in a limited fashion, of course)... where those wishing peace and quiet, could game away, fishing and collecting some resources... well, it would be cool... I ask this as a question to those who have a father, perhaps with declining health (perhaps with some developing dementia), unable to go out in their fishing boat anymore... who could log on and fish the day away... Just a thought... interested in peeps thoughts and perhaps tweek a developers creativity...

Kagukan · June 2019

At 48, I am pretty sure I meet the older than average criteria. For me, this game can be pretty darn casual the way it is. Questing for example can be done as fast or as slow as you like. Personally I like to read along with the voice actors and take my time with the quests.
As for fishing. There are many ways it can be improved. One way for example, is to add a daily fishing quest. Catch X amount of Z type of fish at Y location.

JKorr · June 2019

Might find something looking at this:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Category:Online-Achievements_with_Furnishings

kate.georgeb16_ESO · June 2019

Kagukan wrote: »

At 48, I am pretty sure I meet the older than average criteria. For me, this game can be pretty darn casual the way it is. Questing for example can be done as fast or as slow as you like. Personally I like to read along with the voice actors and take my time with the quests.
As for fishing. There are many ways it can be improved. One way for example, is to add a daily fishing quest. Catch X amount of Z type of fish at Y location.

Erm I'm 65 so you are young

Over the years I've met many gamers older than me, when I played WoW we had a whole guild of "mature" players, and I'm sure there are also many in ESO. Fishing dailies? Hmm sounds like WoW. I would find that boring.

kylewwefan · June 2019

Come on guys. The young kids that play eso are like the grand kids hanging out with their grandparents on bingo night. This is not a game for the younger crowd.

spacebandit · June 2019

I happened to like going to bingo with my grandma when I was younger

barney2525 · June 2019

I'm 63 and retread.

The fishing pond is a cool idea, but the size of the home it could be attached to would be expensive.

I garee (or agree if you are worried about spelling properly

), ESO is definitely a game that can be played at any pace the customer is comfortable with. I play at all hours, day and night, and stop and take a nap whenever I want.

There is so much solo content alone you can do this on a single character for months. Then if you want, start a different class and go again.

As long as its fun, its good with me.

siddique · June 2019

I need to show this thread to my wife who calls me a kid for playing ESO at 32.

JamilaRaj · June 2019

I am sure they have considered it, given that many old people have substantial savings, unlike younger people, some of which may have debts instead and poverty jobs, if any. In other words, certain subset of older people are potentially very good spenders, and declining mental faculties due to neurodegenerative diseases brought about by advanced age make them particularly vulnerable to P2W depredations.
So you can bet trustworthy and honourable businessmen like Darth Vader or Old Cash Grab have already set up special squad at The Monetization Department, that is hatching a cunning plan how to milk them with utmost efficiency.

Nestor · June 2019

Sounds like the Overland Content in this game is tailor made for you.

SteveCampsOut · June 2019

There was a whole thread about fishing achievements just recently that would fit the bill. It talked about awarding various boats for the various zone completion achievements that would do quite nicely in this area. I'm 56 btw. ESO keeps me outta trouble.

JamilaRaj · June 2019

Nestor wrote: »

Sounds like the Overland Content in this game is tailor made for you.

You insensitive clod! That he is old does not mean he is only good for overland.

rotaugen454 · June 2019

I’m 54 and edging into this category. I quest, fish, and decorate houses for the casual times but still jump into PvP and Vet dungeons and trials when I’m feeling more energetic. There are probably multiple RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous)!guilds out there.

familylwl · June 2019

good

ThePlayer · June 2019

here the game for you

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

geonsocal · June 2019

be honest - how many of you actually played the original pong?

Agenericname · June 2019

rotaugen454 wrote: »

I’m 54 and edging into this category. I quest, fish, and decorate houses for the casual times but still jump into PvP and Vet dungeons and trials when I’m feeling more energetic. There are probably multiple RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous)!guilds out there.

Or vMA, after my Geritol of course.

Kuramas9tails · June 2019

There was an elder women in our PVP group who was on the NA server who joined our PVP group. She talked so polite with that British accent and talked about tea and all sorts of lovely things. She was the most wonderful player I ever met and I will never forget her....even though she forgot me when I started a conversation with her when I came across her randomly in Summerset.

That's ok. I appreciate her either way. A truly jolly women. Our PVP guild would joke "for the queen" (AD guild too) but refer to the British elder women in our group as the queen since, you know, her username did have the word "queen" in it. Made for a lot of fun RP jokes so when she was in trouble we would "protect the queen" or "save the queen" and run to help her.

God that was so fun.

elvenmad · June 2019

56 here, played WoW since launch, played a multiple of other games, most pretty hardcore (high end end game content) Tera, (both EU and CN servers) Rift, Neverwinter, Archeage, Blade and Soul on Taiwan servers years before it launched in the west, most when they were at their peak, 14 years in WoW with many server first and world top 10 boss kills, used to be in a world top 10 raiding guild for many years.

My "Kids" (who are in their 30's now with their own families) consider me a "hardcore gamer"

My response as always been what as age got to do with it ?

Navras · June 2019

geonsocal wrote: »

be honest - how many of you actually plaed the original pong?

Damn I even wrote a pong like game in my firsr year of C coding....

theyancey · June 2019

I'm 69. The solo PvE stuff is fine for me. I just keep my nose out of the PvP trials, battlegrounds, etc.

Gelston · June 2019

Oh, actual old people! I did have an 80 year old in a guild with me once. Not on ESO though.

I was in another guild, and a guy was always saying how he was old and calling us all young and blah blah. Turns out he was 23... I was 33 at the time. He was the second oldest person in the guild though. Seems the average age of players, outside of serious RP guilds, that I've run into are usually early 20s though.

Not meaning to derail this too much!

Ashryn · June 2019

64 here....

Oh I bet there are PLENTY of older players in ESO and plenty of us are quite familiar with gaming! (I was playing computer games when they had text only & you had to have a very vibrant imagination!).

That said...

I believe that the gaming industries are missing opportunities to improve life for a lot of elderly or handicapped people by focusing so much on 'hack & slash' or war-type games only. There are plenty of games out there that stress confrontation, so it would be nice to have more games that better spark creativity, joy, and peacefullness?

ESO could definitely improve on their fishing- or gathering from nodes- with better added random rewards. Those activities could be quite satisfying with a little bit more tweaking and thought!

rotaugen454 · June 2019

geonsocal wrote: »

be honest - how many of you actually plaed the original pong?

Sears, 1975. I saw a large crowd in front of a TV and a line of people waiting their turn. A light shined down from heaven, angels sang, and my life suddenly had meaning.

Dysturbed · June 2019

I am 65 and my playing partner is in her 70's. We started gaming together over 20 years ago in Asherons Call. ESO could be a little more old person friendly but we still do everything except trials, pledges and such.

OneForSorrow · June 2019

Heck, I'm not too old yet (35) but I was thinking just the other day how I wished there were maybe some things like rare mounts, pets, collectibles and furnishing you could only get from resource nodes and fishing.

My schedule is too hectic for me to ever get deep into things like vet trials but resource farming is relaxing.

Trandaner · June 2019

I am obvoiusly the oldest here as my birthday is on 1st january 1900.

mook-eb16_ESO · June 2019

There are a lot of older people who still like to play pvp or do trials, this isn't an age thing it's just what ever you like to do in the game.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · June 2019

As an older gamer (54), having played computer games for my entire adult life, I find this game is a very good fit for my taste. The veteran dungeon and trial combat is dynamic enough and hard enough to appeal to me as a long time "twitchy FPS" player, but not intense enough to trigger the RSI pain in my mouse hand. (My left hand needs to do some twitching to dodge and keep out of harm's way, but that one is still good.) There are so many ways to play the game that I can experiment with wildly different skills and gear and come up with at least sort-of-working builds of my own. The world, the stories and the quests are more than good enough to catch my interest when I don't feel up for action and want some easy, laid-back fun. I enjoy the community as well, and I have found several guilds where I am neither the oldest person, nor the most skilled old person.
As for this game being geared towards older players, well, playing ESO definitely requires some patience, for many different reasons, and I suppose that is a trait that comes with age.

Kagukan · June 2019

geonsocal wrote: »

be honest - how many of you actually plaed the original pong?

Oh yes. And that's all that console did, pong. And not long after came the Atari 2600 and changed everything.

geonsocal · June 2019

getting old is a weird thing...

I see my folks, they're getting old
And I watch their bodies change
I know they see the same in me
And it makes us both feel strange
No matter how you tell yourself
It's what we all go through
Those eyes are pretty hard to take
When they're staring' back at you

Scared to run out of time

When did the choices get so hard?
With so much more at stake
Life gets mighty precious
When there's less of it to waste

"thankfully" (

) i've already had enough health challenges over the course of my life to already be at peace with whatever comes next, and, not to be fearful of running out of time...

hopefully before it's all said and done - i'll get a chance to use whatever time is left here to play and enjoy lots more video games...

oh yeah, no matter what - i'm hanging on for grrm's a dream of spring