Questions for Female Players

Seminolegirl1992 · June 2022

Millennial. I'm 29. ESO is my first MMO and I started playing in Jan 2016. I've been playing games since I was 9 probably (and before then, board games but that doesn't count). This was with the super nintendo. Always been an avid gamer. After nintendo I went to gamecube and playstation one, then ps2, then wii, then xbox 360, xbox 1, then I switched to pc gaming in 2014 and haven't looked back since. Back when I played 360, every single CoD or Halo match I played always had guys acting shocked that girls played video games. They would send friend requests for seeing 'girl' in my name. Now it is just commonplace, thankfully. I don't know how many women play ESO, but I suspect it is a significant percentage. Usually my trial groups are equally composed of men and women.

Games used to be marketed solely to boys when games and systems were first released. Society has definitely changed gender norms for things like "boys must like blue, girls must like pink and play with barbies" but I grew up hating 'girly' stuff and loving dinosaurs, collecting cars, playing games, sports, etc. It's nice that so many girls and women enjoy games nowadays.

shadyjane62 · June 2022

Met my husband in a Pac-man arcade in 1980. We fought over who would take the "lucky" machine. Married 30 days later.

Have had every gaming console, graduated to PC and am still playing at 71.

That's 42 years of gaming and burnt dinners.

FlopsyPrince · June 2022

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I have noticed a similar gender shift in the field of boardgames as well.

I do remember seeing Pong in the department store, though I didn't have the dexterity to play it. Spent far too many hours playing the original Civ as well.

I know the designer end was almost all male at the very early Computer Game Designer Conferences, with Brenda Laurel and a few others being the notable exceptions. Each year I went (very early on) seemed to have at least one session on how to attract more women gamers, so that was definitely a desire of some there.

I wish I had found some of the older ones of you when I was younger, but that didn't happen and I was married to a non-gamer for several decades before she decided to leave. I know gaming isn't all of it, but I wonder if that can provide solid glue to long term relationships or not.

Interesting replies! Thanks again!

TaSheen · June 2022

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I have noticed a similar gender shift in the field of boardgames as well.

I do remember seeing Pong in the department store, though I didn't have the dexterity to play it. Spent far too many hours playing the original Civ as well.

I know the designer end was almost all male at the very early Computer Game Designer Conferences, with Brenda Laurel and a few others being the notable exceptions. Each year I went (very early on) seemed to have at least one session on how to attract more women gamers, so that was definitely a desire of some there.

I wish I had found some of the older ones of you when I was younger, but that didn't happen and I was married to a non-gamer for several decades before she decided to leave. I know gaming isn't all of it, but I wonder if that can provide solid glue to long term relationships or not.

Interesting replies! Thanks again!

Husband of 50 years doesn't game at all. He also has no facility with tech, especially computers. So no, our relationship is not at all "glued" by gaming.

We had when younger interests that were.... far outside computer games (well, I always did computers and games, but he had zero interest there, and I didn't bother him with it). He's not likely to live much longer (many health issues, and none of them are actually "fixable" at this point) - and for me, it's a good thing I have game worlds I can disappear into, as well as books.

IPlayForFun · June 2022

Started playing WoW about 2006? Left when the sexism got too blatant. Avoided online games for a while, then began playing ESO at the beginning of 2000. I'm 70.

carolingnight · June 2022

Millennial here. I was always a gamer since I was a kid and started my first MMORPG with Ultima Online. (Side note: I was probably too young to play that game.) Stopped playing UO after a while since it was too difficult to keep up with gear and I had bad experiences with a toxic guild leader and some random people I tried to help. I stuck with single player or co-op games for many years, including Oblivion and Skyrim. Then started ESO a little over a year ago thanks to my sister and have been enjoying it since.

AoEnwyr · June 2022

SianTamzin wrote: »

42.

I've been gaming since the mid 80s.

Gaming was just a casual, fun hobby back in the 80s and 90s, and no one cared if you were male or female. It's the younger generation of gamers who have politicised gaming and who seem to think "girl gamers" are new. We're not.

It's odd, I'm not sure if it's also cultural? In my country when I first started playing (late 80's onwards) there were never any real gender divisions around it. It was like any game or toy. If it's ALL you did then maybe you'd get a bit of the whole *nerd* blowback but not even that was a major thing here. Gaming doesn't seem to carry the same stigma where I'm from that it seems to in some other countries

ESO_Nightingale · June 2022

I'm not female but going through these comments it's fascinating to me just how few people are in the same age range as me (early 20s). This lines up with people I've spoken to in the game over the past 4 years. I'm definitely one of the younger players in the game.

SickleCider · June 2022

Danikat wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Elder scrolls online offers more variety of activities for female audience in my opinion

I'm sorry but I have to ask: what are the specific activities that women are said to prefer in a computer game?

I know I'm not the person you asked, and I'm not sure if this is the answer they were thinking of, but here's an article which addresses this topic: 'Female Gamers Want To Kill You, Just Not With Guns'

Edit: There's also this one, about how male and female hardcore gamers have different priorities: https://quanticfoundry.com/2018/08/01/casual-hardcore/

I want to toss this in, for the data: the thrust of the first article resonates with me. Fantastic boss battles are my absolute favorite thing in video games, I just don't usually want to be fighting in those with guns because gun violence is too close and real. I want my violence to be artistic. I want to grind an eldritch abomination into paste with a big pizza cutter. Or maybe I want to fight a dragon with a greatsword that fires moon beams. Or maybe I want to parkour onto a monster's back and stab it with a tiny knife until it throws me off and I get concussed. 🤷‍♀️ Insta-deleting someone with a gun both unsettles and bores me.

Cuddlypuff · June 2022

Late 20s. This is my first MMO / serious video game. It's basically became our main couple's activity due to COVID lockdowns. We exclusively PVP now because we progressed to trial trifectas but the endgame raiding community (esp OCE timezone) was so tiny. ESO was super easy to get into as someone brand new to gaming, but after almost 2 years of playing I do wish it was a bit more challenging and competitive.

Lauranae · June 2022

Started to play The legend of zelda in 1987 with my sons. It was the revolution in the house. And sons and Mom (me) get the gaming virus for life.
But my real MMO life started with Asheron's Call. (never thought this game would change my real life. My sons bought the game for me, to help me pass the time while under chemo. After only 2 hours of this game, and i was fataly hit.

Some months later, i met a character called Zoopsie, and after a Dev married us in this game, we married in life.
We went through together mutiples games going from WoW, Anarchy Online, The Secret world and Lotro.

My life as a character, with a background story started on Lotro. I was Moranae on Landroval.

Then there was SWTOR, an incredible MMO for sur. We can love it or hate it depending of the transformation the game went through. I left it definitly in 2022.

And, of course Elder Scroll Online. i should say WE heard of it, because Zoopsie is a gamer in soul too and always part of it
I was in ESO beta.

started to write a background story, and still living it up until today.

My real life has been fantastic, i had the luck to have a great job, the only hiatus was my health. And until today, i have still to deal with that, forcing me to take absence from gaming. But i am always back.

Today this is me

And yes i am now Gran'Ma, over 70, with lots of memories from gaming.

But sorry time is precious and i hear Druidess Evereven calling me, as Zoopsie who just created an organ in his house.

gref · June 2022

But my real MMO life started with Asheron's Call.

I loved asherons call!!
My wife is 68 we have played everquest 2 : Vanguard ; lotro and eso
so about 15 years

Syldras · June 2022

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

I know gaming isn't all of it, but I wonder if that can provide solid glue to long term relationships or not.

Well, it's a hobby, one topic you can talk about (which can, in case of TES, lead to very extensive lore discussions...), and one way to spend time with each other. I don't see a big difference to other pastimes, though, like travelling, or doing sports, or going to the cinema or museum together. In the end it's all about interacting, talking, sharing moments, creating memories. I can only speak for same-sex relationships, though, but I'm quite sure it's not any different for straight couples.

I never had a partner who was not a gamer, btw - it's even hard for me to imagine differently. Not because I would have a problem with a partner who doesn't care for gaming, not at all, my partner doesn't have to like everything I like - but I have the impression that many non-gamers just can't understand the appeal of gaming at all, any many even look down on it. And I wouldn't want to share my life with someone who finds my hobbies idiotic and nags about them.

Danikat · June 2022

Syldras wrote: »

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

I know gaming isn't all of it, but I wonder if that can provide solid glue to long term relationships or not.

Well, it's a hobby, one topic you can talk about (which can, in case of TES, lead to very extensive lore discussions...), and one way to spend time with each other. I don't see a big difference to other pastimes, though, like travelling, or doing sports, or going to the cinema or museum together. In the end it's all about interacting, talking, sharing moments, creating memories. I can only speak for same-sex relationships, though, but I'm quite sure it's not any different for straight couples.

I never had a partner who was not a gamer, btw - it's even hard for me to imagine differently. Not because I would have a problem with a partner who doesn't care for gaming, not at all, my partner doesn't have to like everything I like - but I have the impression that many non-gamers just can't understand the appeal of gaming at all, any many even look down on it. And I wouldn't want to share my life with someone who finds my hobbies idiotic and nags about them.

I agree. I think it's important for a couple to have some shared interests, but I'm not sure it matters what specifically those are. My husband and I met on a music forum and initially bonded over that, talking about bands we both like, swapping songs and albums etc. The fact that we're also both gamers didn't really come into it until later and didn't seem like that much of a big deal. Also a lot of the time the specifc games we like are different.

Being married to another gamer can be an advantage sometimes though. I wouldn't have bought a Playstation 4 or 5 for myself because there's relatively few exclusive games I want to play, but my husband got both and so I can play the few games I want without worrying about justifying the console itself. Same with him using my Switch sometimes. Also it means I can talk to him about games and even if he hasn't played that one he'll generally understand (and the same when he's talking to me about games I've not played).

(If I had to pick 1 thing I think it's important for couple to agree on I'd say food, because if you don't like the same types of food trying to work out what to eat is going to get annoying.)

Edit: Also I think it's very important to have a parter who at least accepts your interests, even if they don't share them. Being a gamer in a relationship with the type of person who thinks games are a stupid waste of time or actually harmful or whatever would be bad for everyone involved. But again that's the same for everything, if you're into hiking you probably don't want to be with someone who thinks it's incredibly dangerous and best avoided. If you like music you don't want to be with someone who thinks live shows are a waste of money and you could just stream the album and so on.

DragonRacer · June 2022

Syldras wrote: »

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

I know gaming isn't all of it, but I wonder if that can provide solid glue to long term relationships or not.

Well, it's a hobby, one topic you can talk about (which can, in case of TES, lead to very extensive lore discussions...), and one way to spend time with each other. I don't see a big difference to other pastimes, though, like travelling, or doing sports, or going to the cinema or museum together. In the end it's all about interacting, talking, sharing moments, creating memories. I can only speak for same-sex relationships, though, but I'm quite sure it's not any different for straight couples.

I never had a partner who was not a gamer, btw - it's even hard for me to imagine differently. Not because I would have a problem with a partner who doesn't care for gaming, not at all, my partner doesn't have to like everything I like - but I have the impression that many non-gamers just can't understand the appeal of gaming at all, any many even look down on it. And I wouldn't want to share my life with someone who finds my hobbies idiotic and nags about them.

I definitely agree. My husband and I have both been lifelong gamers and I think we both appreciate the level of understanding that comes with that. We have our different games we like to play, so usually at our own corners of the house (though there have been some MP games in the past we played together), but even something as simple as understanding you can't pause an online game.

Like, you envision someone with a non-gamer getting nagged at for ignoring them. But in our case, he'll walk by my Woman Cave™ to ask or say something and see I am clearly engaged in a tough boss battle and will instead come back in a few minutes when I'm not frantically mashing buttons. Or see me playing something like Red Dead and ask real quick if I'm playing online or offline story mode or otherwise in a safe place so he can ask me something. Or I walk by the living room (where he games) to get to the kitchen and check to see if he needs a drink refill and get that for him while he's in the middle of an online race.

Just that kind of simple understanding rather than butthurt as far as knowing when's a good time to engage and when the partner is super-focused on something time-sensitive.

Plus the respect of our gaming "responsibilities". I run a trading guild and every Friday night, I do our guild auction. He's understanding of that time being sacred because it's our biggest weekly fundraiser for trader bids. By that same token, I respect his space on Saturday mornings doing his iRacing league practice and Sunday mornings doing his weekly league race because he runs a league and, being a GM myself, I get it. A non-gaming couple, I could easily see the non-gaming partner not understanding or being sensitive to the fact that their spouse has other real people relying on them for some of their gaming activities and writing it off as nerdy or silly.

Lugaldu · June 2022

I know the different variants, partners and friendships that are gamers or non-gamers, with the number of non-gamers being clearly in the minority. Nevertheless, I also know the situation that someone finds the joy of computer games silly. Then what do I say? Why should it be better to watch TV in the evening than to devote yourself to the challenges of a game? Basically, I don't care what other people think about me, but in the end it's much nicer when you can share that aspect of your life which gives you joy and fulfillment with the person you love.

LadyLethalla · June 2022

I'm a gen-Xer, and I started gaming in the late 70s with a Pong simulator box that connected to a television...
ESO is my first MMO, and I've been playing since release week on console.

AzuraFan · June 2022

Danikat wrote: »

I think it's very important to have a parter who at least accepts your interests, even if they don't share them. Being a gamer in a relationship with the type of person who thinks games are a stupid waste of time or actually harmful or whatever would be bad for everyone involved. But again that's the same for everything, if you're into hiking you probably don't want to be with someone who thinks it's incredibly dangerous and best avoided. If you like music you don't want to be with someone who thinks live shows are a waste of money and you could just stream the album and so on.

Yes, absolutely. I'm actually glad my partner isn't a gamer. I'd spend way too much time gaming otherwise. The key, like you said, is to respect each other's interests.

amapola76 · June 2022

Gen X. My first computer game was literally Pong, although that was mostly because my parents thought it would be fun to show me how to play. Frogger was the first game I ever played regularly with friends. From there, I suppose it was the usual progression of single player games through the 80s and 90s, followed by a bit of a hiatus during grad school/early career years/babies. Then WoW was my first MMO; we tried it out as a family when they first started doing the "free to level 20" promotion many years ago. A coworker who is obsessed with Bethesda told me to check out Skyrim, and that was my gateway experience for ESO (and going back to check out Oblivion and Morrowind).

To echo what several others have said, I think the women were always there, you just might not have realized it. Particularly since some games have a more toxic environment than others.

amapola76 · June 2022

SickleCider wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Elder scrolls online offers more variety of activities for female audience in my opinion

I'm sorry but I have to ask: what are the specific activities that women are said to prefer in a computer game?

I know I'm not the person you asked, and I'm not sure if this is the answer they were thinking of, but here's an article which addresses this topic: 'Female Gamers Want To Kill You, Just Not With Guns'

Edit: There's also this one, about how male and female hardcore gamers have different priorities: https://quanticfoundry.com/2018/08/01/casual-hardcore/

I want to toss this in, for the data: the thrust of the first article resonates with me. Fantastic boss battles are my absolute favorite thing in video games, I just don't usually want to be fighting in those with guns because gun violence is too close and real. I want my violence to be artistic. I want to grind an eldritch abomination into paste with a big pizza cutter. Or maybe I want to fight a dragon with a greatsword that fires moon beams. Or maybe I want to parkour onto a monster's back and stab it with a tiny knife until it throws me off and I get concussed. 🤷‍♀️ Insta-deleting someone with a gun both unsettles and bores me.

I thought it was an interesting article, and the data seems to track with my own feelings about settings and themes. But the speculation about the reasons for the data doesn't fit very well. I'm usually more of a ranged weapon player... give me bows, or big flaming fireballs, and I'm pretty content... but I'll switch it up semi-regularly with, for example, daggers. So I don't necessarily mind getting stabby in an up close and personal way. But I've realized that one of the main reasons I don't like to play games with guns is quite simply the noise. I get migraines regularly, and there's something about the sound of guns in most games that is a major migraine trigger for me. It could just be me, but considering that women make up a high percentage of migraine sufferers, I do wonder. Anyway, all other things being equal, I'm always going to prefer the swish of a sword or dagger (or of course, an arrow) to the harsher sound of gunfire.

Kallykat · June 2022

Danikat wrote: »

I know I'm not the person you asked, and I'm not sure if this is the answer they were thinking of, but here's an article which addresses this topic: 'Female Gamers Want To Kill You, Just Not With Guns'

Edit: There's also this one, about how male and female hardcore gamers have different priorities: https://quanticfoundry.com/2018/08/01/casual-hardcore/

Thanks for posting these. They were really interesting. My preferences line up pretty well with their data too both in thematic preferences and motivations. I found the discussion on the different concepts of types of gamers especially interesting.

"The gaming community tends to define Hardcore using the male gamer lens, so there’s inevitably a tautologous conclusion that male gamers are more likely to be Hardcore. But this leads to distortions in making sense of actual gaming behavior. For example, in a study of 7,000+ EverQuest 2 players that my colleagues and I conducted, we found that female MMO gamers spent more hours playing per week and were less likely to consider quitting. But ironically, it was precisely the most frequent and loyal gamers who got stereotyped as being 'casuals'."

This relates to my earlier post where I commented that I don't necessarily think of myself as a "gamer" even though I've always played games. I guess my associations with/concept of a gamer is more in line with the male gamer lens concept of a hardcore gamer. I don't share those motivations, but I do fall under the category of frequent and loyal when it comes to ESO.

FeedbackOnly · June 2022

Danikat wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Elder scrolls online offers more variety of activities for female audience in my opinion

I'm sorry but I have to ask: what are the specific activities that women are said to prefer in a computer game?

I know I'm not the person you asked, and I'm not sure if this is the answer they were thinking of, but here's an article which addresses this topic: 'Female Gamers Want To Kill You, Just Not With Guns'

Edit: There's also this one, about how male and female hardcore gamers have different priorities: https://quanticfoundry.com/2018/08/01/casual-hardcore/

we see that the overall emphasis on Competition/Challenge/Excitement is driven by the male gamers—these 3 motivations are the primary drivers among male Hardcore gamers. Female Hardcore gamers, while scoring above average in these 3 motivations are more strongly driven by Design (expressing individuality, customization) and Completion.

So for men, playing a game seriously means being able to beat other players at it. For women, playing a game seriously is more likely to mean having completed and done everything there is to do in a game, and to leave traces of your personal flair in the game while doing it. For Hardcore female gamers, playing a game seriously is more akin to patiently creating and curating a work of art. And it’s a powerfully evocative alternative to how we typically conceptualize what a “hardcore gamer” is.

ESO allows more personal fair to character design in play as you want motto. Then there's housing and fashion to really touch things. [SNIP] It keeps us playing ESO over other games.

There a lot more female players in eso compared to other games in my opinion.

Ye_Olde_Crowe · June 2022

Playing Video games since Pong, played all (non-mobile) ES titles, was not a MMORPG person until SWtOR.
Got my (then elementary school aged) kid into gaming when I dled the Minecraft alpha.
The kid is grown up now. I'm in my mid fifties.

SickleCider · June 2022

amapola76 wrote: »

SickleCider wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Elder scrolls online offers more variety of activities for female audience in my opinion

I'm sorry but I have to ask: what are the specific activities that women are said to prefer in a computer game?

I know I'm not the person you asked, and I'm not sure if this is the answer they were thinking of, but here's an article which addresses this topic: 'Female Gamers Want To Kill You, Just Not With Guns'

Edit: There's also this one, about how male and female hardcore gamers have different priorities: https://quanticfoundry.com/2018/08/01/casual-hardcore/

I want to toss this in, for the data: the thrust of the first article resonates with me. Fantastic boss battles are my absolute favorite thing in video games, I just don't usually want to be fighting in those with guns because gun violence is too close and real. I want my violence to be artistic. I want to grind an eldritch abomination into paste with a big pizza cutter. Or maybe I want to fight a dragon with a greatsword that fires moon beams. Or maybe I want to parkour onto a monster's back and stab it with a tiny knife until it throws me off and I get concussed. 🤷‍♀️ Insta-deleting someone with a gun both unsettles and bores me.

I thought it was an interesting article, and the data seems to track with my own feelings about settings and themes. But the speculation about the reasons for the data doesn't fit very well. I'm usually more of a ranged weapon player... give me bows, or big flaming fireballs, and I'm pretty content... but I'll switch it up semi-regularly with, for example, daggers. So I don't necessarily mind getting stabby in an up close and personal way. But I've realized that one of the main reasons I don't like to play games with guns is quite simply the noise. I get migraines regularly, and there's something about the sound of guns in most games that is a major migraine trigger for me. It could just be me, but considering that women make up a high percentage of migraine sufferers, I do wonder. Anyway, all other things being equal, I'm always going to prefer the swish of a sword or dagger (or of course, an arrow) to the harsher sound of gunfire.

@amapola76 First: I'm sorry that you're a migraine sufferer! That is hell to deal with. I hope you find something that gives you relief.

Your response got me thinking, and if I dig down deep, I think there's something to it. Some of my friends have been addicted to Tiny Tina's Wonderland's lately. Sidestepping the conversation about aesthetic, I find I do feel sick and I have a headache after a while of playing. Maybe it's not exclusively a Tiny Tina problem, but an FPS problem. To wit: I have told said friends I can't do that to myself anymore and they've been cool with it.

sarahvhoffb14_ESO · June 2022

Gen X, been gaming since before the Atari 2600; Everquest was my first MMO. Then City of Heroes, WoW for like 11 years, now ESO.

big_ear_midget · June 2022

Hi, I will be 53 years old in about 3 weeks. I have played games for many, many years, starting with the Atari way back in the day. My first MMO was WoW I played that on a regular computer. This was I think early 2000's, not really sure when I started playing WoW. I played with a guy who was much better than me as I didn't really know what I was doing. He would kill everything and I would loot the corpses.. sometimes I would get a hit in so I felt I was contributing LOL. I have played ESO for 5-6 years, and have played lots of other games as well.

Bekkael · June 2022

I don't do generational labels. 🙄 I'm 48 currently.

My first computer game was Pong, and I bought my first Nintendo system as a teen to play Duck Hunt. 😂

I didn't become a serious "gamer" until I was married and had a bunch of children. I bought my husband an Xbox (the original Xbox, 1st generation), and became hooked on games after playing The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. Discovering story-adventure and roleplay games was the true beginning of my love affair with gaming.

When TES IV: Oblivion was announced I ordered an Xbox 360 just to be able to play it. After that, I discovered BioWare games, and have played them all, even beta testing a number of their games (like SWTOR) and helping test and work out issues with Dragon Age Keep before Inquisition launch. I adored the BioWare devs and had a Twitter account for the sole purpose of communicating with the Bio community and developers. Alas, those were golden days...before the BioWare forums were shut down due to endless trolls and community discontent after the release of Mass Effect 3. I miss those days. RIP old BioWare.

I prefer single player titles that I can play entirely on my own, without online required or sharing a game world with other people. I am introverted and private by nature, so single player TES games and BioWare RPGs are my absolute favorites.

I was very sad and disappointed when ESO was announced, as I knew we would never get another single player TES game as long as ESO existed and was making money, as they would never want to undermine ESO with TES 6. In protest, I didn't buy or play ESO when it first came out on console (I dislike PC gaming, so never would have considered it otherwise), but finally gave in and tried it. I hated it. I really despised online gaming as a whole, so the whole MMO thing was very daunting, but due to lack of any decent games for my very narrow area of interest being released at that time, I kept coming back to it. Over time, I got used to the MMO model, got invited to a guild and met some nice people and had fun.

I've been playing ESO for nearly 7 years now, and I guess I will continue to play until they shut down the servers. I would still love to see a TES 6 be made, but I won't hold my breath there. 🤷‍♀️😉

I think ESO has come a long way from the early years, and the devs have done well with making the game more welcoming for new players, with tons of quality of life improvements that they continue to add over time. It's not my dream game just because of the MMO genre, but still a very good game, and well worth playing, especially for TES fans, like me. ❤️

EDIT for spelling.

Path · June 2022

Oh my! (Over 60 here)
My gaming resume could be a novel.

Yes, I had Pong. Then while working at Scientific-Atlanta as a PC Designer, I was loaned a "Terminal." Played "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," as well as "Leisure Suit Larry."

When my kids arrived, we subscribed to "The Sega Channel." We played together. From there I went PC, kids stuck to console. (We did play Myst together. My Daughter was great at the math puzzles, Son was great at the visual puzzles and I did the literary ones.)

Played many stand alone games including "The Sim's."

Yup, (Shhh,) first MMO was "The Sim's Online." I broke all the rules. Created a "City Dump," where even entering almost killed your Sim. The devs gave me tons of Simoleans to continue. I meet many friends in TSO. At least 4 I am still keep in touch with.

From there my TSO friends and I went to SWG. I loved that game!
Had my 15 minuites of fame as the crazy, Star Wars Mom on Trading Spouses. (So fun but they cut and paste at will to create a good story) Became a friend of one of the Community guru's. Stayed till the game's end. Guru got me into countless alpa, beta...

Landed on LotRo. Then ESO. Many standalone games in between and ongoing. (Fallout 4!!! Yes!)

Not giving up on my games. They are creative, imagieative, interactive and make me happy.

Oddemus · June 2022

I have been interested in games since I was a little kid. I was born in '92.

TempusFugit · June 2022

What generation are you in ?

Am part of the Baby Boomers Generation.

When did you start playing MMOs (and/or games in general)?

I began playing single player games in the 80's and then graduated to MMO's as they appeared. I have played Diablo, Zork, Mask of Eternity, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, the Dragon Age series, DragonRealms, the Witcher series and Dark Souls to name a few. I have played every Elder Scrolls game since Arena and loved them all. I adore ESO needless to say.

Side note, I met my husband in an online text based MMORPG and we have been happily married now for many a year.