Malkosha Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Keep in mind we can't determine the average age of the player base ... only the average age of those who posted on this thread on the SWTOR forums. It wouldn't surprise me if most people who play never come to the forums at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirx Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) 41. Like many others though I started my hobby of playing games very early...I think I was about 8 which puts the year at 1982. I played on the Commodore Vic 20. the C-64 play....remember Zork , Planetfall , Suspended...all those great InfoCom games...i loved those things...I was highly addicted to the Bard's Tale and Might and Magic series as well back then and who could forget Ultima as well? Anyway I also played the table top games....served as a Dungeon Master for a couple summers in Junior High and I think even into the first year of high school. Played GURPS , Middle Earth, Battle Tech, Twilight 2000 and Car Wars as well as far as table top games go. And of course with computer games I played just about all the major MMOs.....WoW, GW1 (and 2), AEON (hated it btw - that was short lived) , Rift, UO (bought the CE at original release in the late 90's...what was that around 96-97-ish? I forget)... I'm a huge Star Wars fan...so I had to play this game....I really don't give a rat's arse about the group content in this game to be 100% honest....so people that say "This game is turning into KOTOR3" or whatever.....my view is "ok...awesome....what's your point?"..... The story of the characters is my main point for playing this game. I don't care about FP, Ops, PVP.......(BUT for clarity....Its my own choice I don't do group content much now...because I did it so much in all the other mmo's I've played.....that it turned me off of it....for years I raided 4-5 days a week in WoW, plus I've raided in Wildstar which is FAR more challenging raid content than any other game I listed in this post....the politics of raiding...the whining and the egos of people in the raid and the chore of it just burned me out...)..... Edited July 28, 2015 by Shirx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusramsey Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Updated stats (based on 92 cognizable responses) mean = 38.93...; median = 38.5; mode = 47; youngest = 12; oldest = 67. I still think the underlying data is not as strong as it could be. We're only looking at data from voluntarily provided responses to a forum post, which is going to be a small cross-section of the entire SWTOR community. Not everyone who plays the game looks at the forums. Not everyone who looks at the forums posts. I still think the average age of 39 is slightly higher than it likely really is. I seem to recall only one mention of '12', so I would like to point something out. If I missed someone else, then.. my mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyaniteD Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Fine. But it also means your age is, according to the OP, "not cognizable," meaning your answer has no meaning in context of the OP's request. Now, who's 67? I must have missed that one. Hm, so had I stated a random, "cognizable" number it would have had more meaning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhury Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 47 here. And loving my return to the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElZaguero Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I'm 55 First video game was the Pong machine in the bowling alley, next to the foosball table, circa 1972 First home computer was an Apple IIc, mostly played the original Might & Magic, (NOT Heroes of). First PC was a 386DX40 running DOS 5.0 First computers I used at work were a cluster of big DEC mainframes running VAX/VMS 5, connected to monochrome dumb terminals. First MMO was Anarchy Online, summer of 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenscarX Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 43. I started with Atari,pinball,and arcade games (I lived across the street from an arcade). My first MMO was Ultima Online....Fond memories of stealing house deeds while the door was open....LOL..and massing several guilds to kill the entire town....Been here off and on for two years,recently decided to come back and actually sub for once...Haven't regretted it. Games are my life....as sad as that sounds...because I'm disabled and pretty much a shut in... PTSD, severe chronic depression,anxiety,social phobia,and a lack of RL friends...Yeah..."outside" is not a good place for me... But I am a survivor,and I endure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedia Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I am a 61 year old female and I started playing MMORPG's beginning with Star War Galaxies. I stopped playing when they started dumbing down everything. I then started beta tested and played several games such as Star Trek, DC, Lord of the Rings and others. I am curious to find out the ages of other players that may be close to my age. I am a 52-year-old female player, and when I say to most people that I'm probably older than them, they usually doubt it. You are the first to beat my score! I've been playing MMOs since 1995 in The Realm, then went on to UO, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, then WoW and a whole lot of WoW-clones until I finally got tired of spreadsheet-like gameplay and retreated to single player games and LOTRO. I played SWTOR in open beta, came back for the purple crystals, and stayed *because* they "dumbed down" everything. I'm disabled and my finger mobility isn't what it used to be, and I've been a big fan of BioWare RPGs since Baldur's Gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCollo Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 12 according to my wife I need to stop my tantrums.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degan Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 12 according to my wife I need to stop my tantrums.... Haha! Yeah I get from mine.... your almost 43, when the F**k are you going to quit gaming? isn't time to grow up!? My response... I don't ever want to grow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vradic Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 33. Got my start on muds, moved to Phantasy star online for the dreamcast, jumped into Everquest months before Shadows of Luclin came out. Putz'd around on Diablo 2 and several others I cannot remember. Started WoW off and on in '04. Sunk some decent time into Galaxies before the revamp. Wasn't anything special, overhyped, went back to ragnarok online for a few. Countless other WoW killers for a bit. Landed Into Eve Online. Still playing, crying myself to sleep some nights. Eve peels away your soul. Been on swtor steadily for a few years, wouldn't trade it for the world. Forgot to mention all the free to play mmos I filled the blanks with. Such as Shaiya, wu online, some samurai one, etc. Etc. Forgotten but still online lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shavage Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 15 Am i the youngest here? Or is there anybody younger? I'm actually pretty surprised how old most of the players here are. (No offence) I'm also 15:sul_wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vradic Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Haha! Yeah I get from mine.... your almost 43, when the F**k are you going to quit gaming? isn't time to grow up!? My response... I don't ever want to grow up. I just remind my wife that I could go back to blowing money in strip clubs, drinking, tuning my car, hunting, fishing, and gun collecting like I did in my early twenties, for a hobby instead. That 14.99 a month suddenly isn't so bad lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RameiArashi Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 51 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngFour Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 38 year old female gamer checking in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveon Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 We should start an old timers guild. What should the age cut be to be an 'Oldtimer'? The Old Timers Guild does indeed exist with both Republic and Empire chapters on Shadowlands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theeko Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeNaCe-NZ Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 34 here. First and only true MMO though I first started out "gaming" on the ole commode 64 which I have a fond memory at an unknown age of typing things into the prompt like "how do you make a bomb" hoping it would tell me and now here we are some 15-20 years from that time and I really can do so with google ( forget bing, meh horrible ), future predictions perhaps. =) The rest of my life story is way too cool to post sorry but it doesn't involve bomb making. On a more serious note I've noticed a distinct lack of teenagers in this thread which I find rather surprising to be honest ( less than 5 over 15 pages at a guess? ) wonder if that's from not many playing or just not bothering to post/read forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalfear Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 34 here. First and only true MMO though I first started out "gaming" on the ole commode 64 which I have a fond memory at an unknown age of typing things into the prompt like "how do you make a bomb" hoping it would tell me and now here we are some 15-20 years from that time and I really can do so with google ( forget bing, meh horrible ), future predictions perhaps. =) The rest of my life story is way too cool to post sorry but it doesn't involve bomb making. On a more serious note I've noticed a distinct lack of teenagers in this thread which I find rather surprising to be honest ( less than 5 over 15 pages at a guess? ) wonder if that's from not many playing or just not bothering to post/read forums. I would suspect it has more to do with not having posting rights (IE: Teens more likely playing F2P and cant post here). Im surprised by some numbers myself but I think in general terms the sub base would average out to be older players while the F2P crowd would be more teens and pre teens. But thats being overly general in conclusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master_Gabe Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 (edited) 15 years old. My first consoles were the Gamecube and PS2, and my first MMO was World of Warcraft. Since WoW, I've played Archeage, Wildstar during the open beta, and Rift Edited July 29, 2015 by Master_Gabe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Miz Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 41 years young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesirableTom Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 19 years of age, here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSaynKnutt Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 23 here. First and only MMO, but I've played computer games for as long as I can remember. Huge fan of KotOR, which is why I'm here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulseekerr Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 37. Been a gamer pretty much my whole life. First MMO was that big evil one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Trenzalore Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I'm 15, been playing since I was 13. In that time been officers in quite a few guilds (The biggest being "Eternal Suns" and that's actually a kind of funny story...), run my own guilds (Started one when I was 13, crashed and burned. Invictus is doing well, but it's fairly new.) Frankly I'm curious about the age group as well. One would assume in a video game a good amount of the players are kids/teenagers, yet most of the players (At least competent, I know too well why kids are normally disliked in these games) I've met have been 21+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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