Age Group (POLL RESTARTED 12/9 - PLEASE VOTE AGAIN!)

[healix]

Someone who is 40 can either feel like four 10 year-olds, or ten 4 year-olds.

[Dr. Gemini]

A few months ago I turned 25...for the 25th time.

[Allotrion]

35 here. 

During a conversation with a fellow gaming co-worker I mentioned how "in my days we didn't have the internet for research.  If I had a school project due I'd open up my Encyclopedia Britannica!"  He replied, "What's that?".  Oh dear god did I feel old...

[Mister Bison]

35 here. 

During a conversation with a fellow gaming co-worker I mentioned how "in my days we didn't have the internet for research.  If I had a school project due I'd open up my Encyclopedia Britannica!"  He replied, "What's that?".  Oh dear god did I feel old...

No need to feel old. Not everyone had that at home at that time.

[SerialBeggar]

My mother finally accepted the fact that we weren't going to ever use those encyclopedias and finally threw our set out this summer.   :P  And they were still in mint condition!

[Perfidus]

Aw, she should have donated them. They might've even been worth something.

[Minotaurus]

30.

I'm very surpised by the poll results.  Turns out CoH/V was a mature persons MMO.  Lines up with the experience I had playing in game.

[Ice Trix]

I hit the 40 this year.

[Thunder Glove]

I stopped at 39, but I'm 42 right now because I couldn't pass up the chance to be The Ultimate Answer.  Next year I'll be 39 again.

It's two comedy references in one!

[Synodontis]

Just turned 35.

Back in high school/college I used to play pen and paper RPGs. D&D, Vampire the Masquerade, GURPS... I played a text based MUD in college, Land of the Lost Unicorn.  Then nothing... till I discovered CoH about two years ago (around the time of Going Rogue).  I fell in love.  And got my heart broken.... :(

[malonkey1]

Bell curve...freaky.

[Ceremonius]

25 years here.
Guess I'm not the oldest, just sound sometimes like a really, really old guy.
Well guess the life expierence I made so far makes me this  :o

[Mister Bison]

Bell curve...freaky.

Yeah, it's almost as if the majority of people statistically answered... (ie, not their real age ;) )

[Triplash]

Yeah, it's almost as if the majority of people statistically answered... (ie, not their real age ;) )

It's the peer pressure, man. It gets to ya. All the magazines and movies telling us we have to be 26-55 to be cool nowadays. And then those 60+ year olds get out there, shooing us off their perfect lawns and flaunting their sexy bifocals... we gotta lie just to compete anymore. It's crazy :gonk:

[DarkCurrent]

I'm curious as to how many of the 'older' folks were getting or did get their kids into the game.  I was planning to get my daughter a vip account this summer for her 12th bday.  She enjoyed watching me play and had ideas for her own characters.

If my suspicion that I wasn't the only one like this is true, then I was figuring there'd be a 2nd generation of CoHers in the next couple years had the game survived.

[Ceremonius]

I'm curious as to how many of the 'older' folks were getting or did get their kids into the game.  I was planning to get my daughter a vip account this summer for her 12th bday.  She enjoyed watching me play and had ideas for her own characters.

If my suspicion that I wasn't the only one like this is true, then I was figuring there'd be a 2nd generation of CoHers in the next couple years had the game survived.

Well on my side it was planned ;). Not actually the girls of my wife (typical girls - barbies and some unicorn-fly-horses).
But maybe there will be someday a little Ceremonius Jr. And of course he will get my beloved broadsword as soon as he is able to handle it.
But till that day comes, CoH has to run like it's a neverending journey :D.

Actually I would have loved to share the love for coh within my family. Hopefully it will be there...someday  :'(

[nataliaofvirtues]

Just turned 54 and would play til I was 94 if they would bring it back.  :)

[healix]

nat, you said it EXACTLY...I'd play until................

https://i.imgur.com/sKhPj.jpg

[Madadh]

38 here.  Started in next younger demographic back around I4.  Grew up playing twitchy video games, and while I don't mind twitch, I was also used to a controller and maybe 4 or 5 buttons, max on twitchy games.

I recall I could spend an hour plus on a single coin on some games.  (As an aside, I was at my neice's b-day party recently, at at kids Pizza parlor with a video arcade attached, and was thrilled to find a few of my old favs available to play.  Until I realized that at some point they added a damn timer to a single coin, regardless of if you've even died once!!  What a ripoff!)  Well, at least I got to be the 'cool' aunt for a while.

I wouldn't necessarily say that CoH had a higher ratio of female players to male players, since unless you're on Teamspeak or Ventrilo you can claim to be male or female and there's no real way to tell (aside from the old joke about "maxed breast slider = male player"...). However, what I think was true about CoH was that women playing the game were more comfortable about admitting their gender, as opposed to other games where I've read accounts of women claiming to be men because of the harassment and attitude they got from other players if they admitted they were female. I didn't see players being treated differently because of their gender or age, except on the occasions when a team member would say that another team member was their (typically under 10) child and asked us to avoid overt crudity -- and I don't recall anyone ever objecting to that, either... and the kid would rarely need any help keeping up with the team.

I'll admit to this.  When I started playing, I mostly played with my SO at the time, and his group of friends, so of course, it was somewhat obvious I was a woman.  When we split, I stuck around, he found a new game I guess.  In the process, tho, I largely lost my small little community in game.  After that, as I was finding a new niche, I did get a bit of slack for being a woman, and decided I'd just play male for while (as I've had to do in some other games), and the problem largely went away.  But, after a while, after I found out that that was probably a very outlying case in CoH, and went back to just being me again, and never had a problem again.   

Edit:  Oh, and Merry Yule everyone.

[Golden Ace]

49, 50 in Jan