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Where are the old (30s) granpa gamers?
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It's somewhat based in reality, isn't it? I'm still gaming in my late 30s and most people I get to play with are on average 10-15 years younger than me. People leave the hobby with time, en masse, and almost no one my age seems to be joining. There are some games that let you ignore that more (single player, matchmaking. Although even in single player, what's the point of gaming, if you don't get to discuss it with most of your friends), but some are really difficult to continue playing (coop :().
... The point is to... play... the game? I have exactly two current games that I play or talk about with friends. The others are all single player games that I play solely for the enjoyment of playing the damn game. Like, what do you mean, what's the point? This view is utterly baffling, just play it?
Same here. I've got a handful of friends that only want to talk about the latest call of duty or rainbow six, but I'm just not into the competitive gameplay. I just want to play the game. Single player is the way I go and I play it because it's like an immersive movie. I get to control the character and see the story unfold, it's like magic. Every now and then I get to talk about how amazing the story in that one game was, and it's just like talking about a movie, but I don't play the single player games solely for the purpose of being able to talk about it. I got to experience it, and play it the way I wanted.
Yeah, most of the playerbase is young, as young people spend more time playing videogames.
I think the amount and maybe type of game change a bit, but that's about it. Ofc some people just stop, because there's always some people, but I don't think our generation (I'm roughly the same age) will leave out gaming as much as the previous one did. And I still know plenty of people from gen x who still game avidly. Relatively avidly, at least.
Gaming was more of a "kids thing" when we were young. Like a lot more. Now it's a viable career. Not a common or easy one, but probably more viable than say "racing-car driver" in the 80's.
You are just playing the wrong games if you think everyone is young. I play on a lot of classic wow private servers and the average age is probably 35+
No, not "everyone", but if you look at the games being played the most and look at what age the people are who put in most hours, it's obviously teenagers.
That isn't to say that "everyone is young". Me saying America has a majority of white people wouldn't mean me saying "everyone is white".
Ofc a private server for a group that has probably existed for 10 years or more will not have the same statistics as looking at just what age plays most.
"Wrong games" lol. Yeah my brother plays a lot of OSRS and the average age for that playerbase is probably higher than 20.
But it's a very minor part of the whole group of "everyone who games".
On a side note I play and follow the classic Tetris scene and it's been wild seeing the game change in terms of age demographics in only a couple years. Went from mostly middle age 30+ to kids 14-25 at least at the top of the game.