At 37 I still enjoy gaming regularly and if someone is small minded enough to judge me on the fact I play games then they can jolly well bugger off as I want nothing to do with people like that :)
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I'm only 15 years old(16 in less than two months) yet I believe I will keep on playing games till the end ^.^
P.S my parents dont play games(my father used to play,but stopped),yet both my mother and father use laptops...my grandpa used to play CS 1.6 with me,and on the atari a game called Battle City :) ,ah good old days ... I miss em T.T
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i'll hit 40 in some months and i still play games, including videogames. playing is part of being human; i really like playing and i'm kind of sad about people i see around me that seldom play. having kids made me enjoy again being on the floor and playing kid's games, or teaching them games, or inventing new ones, even play fights. videogames are also nice when i'm alone (because of travelling, mostly). i mainly enjoy campaign better than multi, probably i'm not so trained to stand more constant gamers, but anyway i use to enjoy some coop with real life friends every so often. i still remember old classics of my youth and i still surprise when i see the (sometimes) breathtaking games that still come out nowadays. it's a nice hobby. and i even don't pirate any more, there's really no reason to do it.
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46 and still gaming, if it wasn't for our generation taking gaming to their hearts and providing a player base that has grown to what it is today and allowed game makers to flourish, pc's would only be used for office stuff and watching porn.
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Age is only a statistic, although it has some social connotations attached to it, you can be working and supporting a family at 16 if you're unlucky, or lucky. The notion that playing games at a certain age is somehow immature is pretty narrow minded.
Gaming is just another hobby, it's no different than elderly people playing Bingo or what have you. So Gl& hf.
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Agree 100%! social notions are so unparcial that anyone should not care at all about it, after all if it makes you hapy (and no person on animals are hurt by this) why the heck not? XD
Only change that I reckon is from less to very far far less time to play, or worst case; total drop of playgrounds haha.
Hopefully won't happen too soon. Btw I'm 30's and no wife, no kids no gf, so it's just me and and all I want to do, no bitching! :D
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I used to be in a clan for Battlefield Bad Company 2 that a 75 year old was in. He was fairly good too.
Age really does not matter, the love of gaming does :P
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I am 22, I have been a gamer since age 3, and don't get me wrong, I love gaming. But the happiest and most productive parts of my life were the 2 or 3-year long hiatuses I took from vidya.
I am not honestly sure of the causality of the situation, though.
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Yep, getting too close to 40, and have been gaming since the early '80s.
"perhaps this is because we grew up playing games and just haven't stopped." For me that is certainly true.
It's gotten less over the years as other priorities showed up, but I've never really quit and probably never will.
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I'm 29 today (birthday! :-) ), and I don't see myself growing out of games. I only stop following the mainstream cause they don't make ames that I like any more. I love to play older games (from the 90's and early 00's) and indie or FLOSS games, they are the ones that are fun for me.
Other than that games are just another form of entertainment, like books, or movies.
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Those people wil NEVER understand. I have a few friends like that myself, and i stoped trying to explain why I play my games so much ,that sometimes, a game can be like a really really good book, or an awesome movie. I just gave up.
For me, it's just another hobby/passion of mine, just like fishing or cooking. I'm 25 btw.
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On the brink at 30 here. I think gamers will continue to get strange looks so long as there are close-minded people. It's just one of those little walls that people put up around themselves for a false sense of maturity. Don't forget these are the same people who tend to have equally immature hobbies, like football, binge-drinking and celebrity-chasing. Popularity is overrated anyway. Popularity don't get me no steamgifts! >:)
It's mostly a divide of preconception and an unwillingness to educate themselves/look into it. It's the same reason people judge facebook users, and in a good number of cases facebook non-users. People who draw random lines in the sand and say "If you stand on that side, you're dumb!" are typically not the easiest to reason with, so just let them think what they're going to think. Hell, a lot of them don't do it maliciously, they just can't see the world beyond their own little box. But hey, if they're comfortable in that little box, more power to 'em I guess?
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I love how you said football, binge-drinking, and celebrity-chasing are immature hobbies. I completely agree. Anyone who makes fun of gamers doesn't realize they can be easily made fun of in the same way as well.
In my case, my life revolves around technology and gaming, and the people I know that love sports to death make fun of me for it. They don't understand that to me, sports are extremely pointless wastes of time and just because you're outside being active doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.
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Wiki says the average age for gamers is 37. I am also older than that and have been playing video games since pong. It should be no surprise and if anyone is surprised that older people are playing video games, it only goes to their immaturity. (how's that for irony?)
I will be playing them until they nail down my coffin and I just might have myself buried with what ever the latest hand held is at that time so I have something to do while I rot away over the years! Game on!
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43 years old here, and a woman to boot! Yes, I definitely get looks, especially from other women. I don't actually have any women friends because they don't really 'get' the things I'm into, like video games, comics books, etc.
I imagine myself 98 years old, in a nursing home, with my computer loaded up with TF2 fraggin kiddos till the day I die :D
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Now, I'm not geriatric but I'm getting on. My hairline is receding and I have more grey hairs than I care to count. But I still love playing video games.
This seems to surprise people (admittedly they tend to be older than myself) and they often ask if I'm single (I'm not, and I'm guessing they're not asking because I'm so gosh-darn handsome)and if my other half minds I play video games (she doesn't, because she is awesome like that). I think they expect me to have taken up a hobby or spawned my own litter, certainly they seem to expect that I should have grown out of gaming.
I think people (certainly of my generation) are continuing to play as they get older, perhaps this is because we grew up playing games and just haven't stopped.
Are any of you older (30+) gamers? If so, do you often get strange looks/reactions when you profess your love for all things gaming? And if so how old are you?
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