Originally posted by Suzianne
People love to talk about how the typical World of Warcraft player is either a 12-year-old kid or a 40-year-old single man, probably alcoholic, living in his mom's basement. I turned 37 this month and I've been playing MMORPGs for maybe 15 years now. A huge number of players are married, with kids, in their 30s, with respectable jobs. This is common espe ...[text shortened]... o advance their characters.
I'm just saying the old stereotypes aren't all that true anymore.
The young gamers have grown up to be middle aged and older gamers.
I play EvE online and my corps has a nearing-retirement truck driver,
an ex-navy veteran, several middle aged family guys, as well as a few
collage and mid twenties bods, plus the odd teen.
So we have pretty much the full spread.
Would like a better gender balance, but sadly eve has been pretty poor at
attracting female gamers...
Don't know if its a community thing, or a lack of having any interaction on the
human scale as opposed to spaceship to spaceship... or both.