What's your age?

[diotavelli]

As a very rough calculation the average age seems to be settling at around 30, so far.

Well, I'm a little above that. I might have been playing PC games longer than anyone else on this forum, though. My dad was the European contact for Xerox PARC in the 70s and I was amongst the first people to play games based on the new GUI system. They were rubbish. I remember being jealous of my friends with the Spectrums and Commodores but my dad insisted that they wouldn't last.

I remember the day he came home and proudly showed us the new Xerox machine. State of the art it was. It took two men to lift it from the back of his car. And you know what: it had a whole 1MG hard disk! The future had arrived.....

[crpcarrot]

29 here

i think u find most of the young "hotheads" in .com forum. :D

i had lusted pegged at mid twenties as well.

[andrewt]

Careful where you're going with that comment

/considers removing age from profile

Oh, wow. You're a year younger than my brother and I just do not see him conducting a serious discussion, much less moderating a forum. Of course, I left the Philippines when he was 9 and only see him for one month every year, so the perception might be lagging.

As for 18, I remember skipping classes a lot during that time, though not as much than when I was 16-17.

[alpaca]

Well some people like Lusted and I are maybe mentally a bit older than physically, although the trend might reverse later in life
I'm 21 so probably a bit younger than most of you imagined, too. Already an old cynical bastard though.

[Kraggenmor]

Had to hurry up and vote while I still fall into the 40-44 bracket. That changes soon. ;)

[Monsieur Alphonse]

So this site is run by little children and the God of all modders is only 18. No wonder that we aren't suppose to speak about ..... and use foul language. My God do I feel old

[Obadiah]

I notice something interesting in this poll. The median age, (ie, the data point with equal # of people to either side, and which is different from "average" as that takes into account both "how many" AND "how far" people are to either side of the balance point) has moved steadly older the longer this poll has been up.

Originally, it was just past the 15-19 line. Now (116 votes) its in the middle of the 25-29 cohort! I’m glad I kept checking back, b’c I was feeling a bit geriatric for a few days. It actually makes sense, b’c the young-uns are more likely to be on-line more regularly (assumption), and therefore vote sooner. The aged, conversely, tend to be busier (assumption), and therefore log on less frequently. So as time passes, us ‘slow-movers’ see the poll, vote, and are gradually raising the median age.

Still, I’ll be very surprised if the median passes into the next cohort (30-34).

[andrewt]

Nah, the elderly just took more time answering. Arthritis, you know?

[Gaiseric]

LOL, Arthritis. I'll be getting that soon with all the gaming I do.

Lusted Quote:
Heh, yes im 18(almost 19, only 14 days til i am), the age where most of my generation in the UK will be spending their student loans on booze. But i've never really fitted into being a typcial person.

I feel the same way. To me gaming is much more fun then RL. Why waste my time in a bar when I can conquer the world TW style. Gaming does hurt my social life, but who else can say that they Went on a Crusade, Sacked Rome, Conquered Constantinople, Fought off the Mongol Hordes, and Won Battles against inumerable odds. Let my peers go out and drink. At least I'll have stories to tell my grandchildren.

[Wessex Rob]

I can't vote on the poll yet, being too new and all, but I'm 31. I've been playing games since my parents got us an Amstrad CPC464 with colour screen - how new and wonderful it all seemed back then, almost like magic.

[Martok]

Good gravy, sapi -- I knew I was older than you, but I didn't realize I was actually twice your age! Please excuse me while I go feel decrepit for a minute....

[Kobal2fr]

@Martok : OK, you and me, on the count of three ! One... Two...THREE !

GET ORRFFF THE LAAAAWN ! AND GET A HAIRCUT !
I swear, kids these days...grmbl...when I was their age...proper respect for their elders...none of that fancy...spoiled...they just don't know how good they have it...

[zahidmaqbool]

well, I fall in the 25-29 category... I must also say that I will continue playing .... I think maybe I will never drop this game.. simply love it...

[Lorenzo_H]

I'm 1. At heart.

[Tusk]

I'm 27, which probably explains why I have been reading the forums since 2006 but have made very few posts - Work work work.

I have immense respect for the older guys playing games - my father is turning 61 and wouldn't know what a computer was if you bashed him in the face with it.

Also impressed by the maturity of the youth that post - I use the term youth, but one should never judge someone by their age. Some of my good friends are 28-29, but languish in casual jobs, spend all their money on beer and wouldn't be able to manage a bathroom break, never mind a maelstrom forum like the .org

[Specky the Mad]

Im 18, play less now because i work full time and study but it is folly to assume the older generation such as the 35 to 49 age bracket like to play turn based or strategy games my old man is the biggest call of duty 2 player i have ever seen, not online though but never less a true die hard.

And in defence of all those that like to go out and spend a fair bit of my hard earned cash on a night out i do it out of the need to validate the idea that i work to live, not live to work but still have manage to effectively manage the main distribution of a building product, which is no easy job.

[Didz]

I have to chuckle sometimes when the subject of age comes up during Warcraft 3 customs games.

I am an absolute sucker for Warcraft 3 custom games, particularly the tower defence ones, like Massacre TD, Wintermaul, and Air Strike TD, but the shock and disbelief amongst fellow players when they realise someone over 14 is playing is really amusing.

[gardibolt]

I would have pegged Lusted at 26-29, myself. I'm even more astonished at the maturity shown by Lusted over the last year or so in dealing with the ill-deserved abuse heaped on him by various malcontents. Wow.

[_Tristan_]

39 here, been at these games since Shogun was released.

Same here, only a bit younger...36...

[atheotes]

Surprised that only 137 people have voted!!!

[South90]

I'm 17! Well, i will be on June 30th. Yahoooooo!!!!!!!

[Andres]

29.

It all started with the Atari 2600...

[Tyrac]

33 here and a history teacher.

And add me to the list of ppl that are a bit shocked that Lusted is just a little boy.... Although frankly that does explain how in the hell he has the TIME to do what he does......


btw lusted's LTC is my mod of choice.


P.S anyone younger then me is a

pathetic ignorant little boy

and everyone old is ... ummm well.. older........

33 is the new leet pwnzor age 2b.

[Budwise]

I'm not sure if I have posted yet but I am 27. I also have an subpar social life as my hot a## girlfriend and I mostly stay home. Both of us are too jealous of the other's attention that they get that we just don't hang out with friends. She was previously married and had three kids and a little older.

I guess I posted that because I can't stand the typical Teen-twenty's years old person. I never been drunk, high, or done anything really bad. I could post a picture later if asked but as a whole, I play this game because my gf as well as her whole family is Cambodian (I met her at work, shes not an import that I ordered or anything) and sometimes I need something in American.

Also, I was in a knife fight. Well, I was unarmed and her ahole exhusband being drunk and having an asian background decided that his wife couldn't leave him after the devorce and waited in our bed for me with a butcher knife. I held him off for ten minutes with NOTHING to grab (We were moving in together at the time) and I would say I won due to all the video games I have played over the years teaching me how to react. I did get minor cuts but I broke his nose and finger.

I know I rambled but I figured what the hell, it was a topic about who you are and your age.

[SadCat]

What's your age? I am old enough to know you never ask or answer that question on the telephone more less on line. SadCat P.S. Wars tend to happen every 20 years and I have seen a few.

[Lusted]

And add me to the list of ppl that are a bit shocked that Lusted is just a little boy.... Although frankly that does explain how in the hell he has the TIME to do what he does......

Well not anymore, most of my time is now suddenly being taken up by my job, but frankly it's a kick ass job so i don't job.

I guess I posted that because I can't stand the typical Teen-twenty's years old person. I never been drunk, high, or done anything really bad.

I'm exactly like that as well, and i'm only 18!

[Askthepizzaguy]

Chronologically, I'm 24. But my mental age is either 14 or 44 depending on my mood.

Sometimes I don't feel like being all I can be, and I want to be a little selfish and immature. But other times I consider it my sacred duty to try as hard as I can to be the most chivalrous, generous, thoughtful person, and to be as honest and ethical as possible, and to learn about everything relevant that science has shown us about the universe, and to have real intellectual discussions involving philosophy and politics, and I think about getting older and what the world will be like for my children.

I try to avoid and compensate for my weaknesses, but let's just say I will never be a star athlete or a model, nor will I be wooing many of those, what do you call them? Females.

Minor self-deprecation there. Actually in these past couple years I've been part of several mature relationships with decent people. So even in my weak areas, I am growing.

Fear not, for I may never be this honest about myself again.

Or you can simply read askthepizzaguy's secret shames thread. Some people also posted their shames and much of it is hilarious.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=88760

[PersianFire]

"I am 27. I only enjoy playing strategy games on PC and that is when I can spare the time. Pleasantly surprised that most people aren't in their teens."

[Long lost Caesar]

15. homework and revision time turns into gaming, such a shame that
hoping to actually quit gaming, since i hate how i play it too much. unlike other hardcore gamers, i know that i play too much

[cassu]

it would be 14 and just enough time to play