Yes but now most voted.Maybe after release someone will make a new Age poll,more detailed,i just wanted a general overview of ages atm,20 days before release.

24 lol i work with video games and honestly more people who are older buy games

18, haven't preordered yet.

I live in Canada so i dont get jack sadly :sadvaultboy:

well we have eb games, best buy and walmart
no amazon though :cryvaultboy:

oh, also I'm 18 and still waiting patiently for amazon to smarten up so I can preorder

Well I am 32... am married with 2 kids.

I play games now more than I have in recent years... why? Because I can afford it whenever I want.

For those saying its weird for people in their 40's to be playing.. you do realize that without the 30-50 year olds designing these games.. who have been playing these games for years... you would not have these games to play right?

Oh and that awesome clan you joined? Guess what... the leader might be a 30 year old who has been running clans since the old days of Quake 1 CTF competitions. Wink wink......

Haha,touche and thats a fact.

For those younger guys please dont take offense I know the younger generation has some brilliant designers in the works... i just get frustrated at the bias these days... the days of gamers being only young kids is long gone.

I'm 29 and pre-ordered. I know someone mentioned people sayin they were too old. I had this guy i was killing in yugioh online and he asked my age, i told him, he told me to get a life. I told him to grow up :wink_smile: sheesh a man cant play yugioh??? we play spades and poker. but yea i'll game till i get arthritis and cant

Straighten up your hand over the mouse when you get arthritis and you'll still be able to play. I taught an 80-year-old arthritic man how to handle a mouse and keyboard well enough to start touch-typing. A few months later I found out he'd started playing Quake competitively (I was still in school, and Quake was the latest FPS at the time).

Hey if there still making games when I'm a senile old man then I'll yell at the kids to get off of my lawn in between rounds of whatever game there will be IN THE FUTURE!

the irony is...that these little kids who say older people shouldnt play video games are very unlikely to stop video games when they get older. Today they might be the one criticizing the older people, but tomorrow they will be the older ones getting criticized.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. ~Stanislaw Lec~



Reminds of the movie "M.Nobody" (2009) with Jared Leto when he says "Life's a game.." ofc he also said,"Sometimes people call me Mr. Craft. C-R-A-F-T. Can't Remember A [censored] Thing".

Well said Shinigami.

Gaming is a past time just like sports or stamp collecting. As long as the market caters to something that you are interested in then fine.

If you are a 90 year old anticipating Brink then I want to shake your hand and buy you a beer... or some Metamucil. Whichever you prefer.

Another "old" gamer here.

Essentially, nothing has changed for me about gaming. I have much less free time to play, but when I do I play for exactly the same reason I played when I was fifteen; I enjoy it and I can.

I now have the possibility of buying a massive alienware and not really feeling the hit on my account. The cost of the games' themselves is negligible (and I do remember having to save money for long weeks to buy them).

I don't think the reason for finding fewer older games is that people stop playing, I think it's much more related to the fact than when we were much younger the number of gamers was really little, so it's natural that right now there's fewer of us; we were fewer from the start. However, nowadays being a gamer is much more common, so I think the companies will cater to older gamers more and more as years pass.

And when the current number of young gamers turn into economically comfortable advlts, game makers will have a much larger budget. Non-gamers will be sad people in their grey worlds while we run around in our fully immersive virtual Brink 12: The return of the Brinkmaster.

@Thanshin

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Brink 12 of course being the sequel to Brink 11: Back from the Brink

I'll add to the discussion by stating that the most skilled gamers I've ever met were between 35-40. I myself fall somewhere in that range.

- F

I'm 45 and started playing videos with Pong :bolt:

Nicely explained no doubt.

I think though that i disagree a bit with the last part,the "grey world",i mean everything is good,as long as u enjoy doing it,the thing with the internet gaming is that u get the chance to talk/meet/discuss to people that in other sircumstances u would never meet in your life.
The non-gamers i'm sure are doing interesting staff too.

I am 476 years old and getting the Spec-ops.

18 and pre-ordered. Cannot wait for this.

Decent sized gaps but I'm 19 pre-ordered months ago from Gamestop, as much as I'd like the other outfits, Gamestop is right down the street soooo...

Well it seems,for the moment at least,that 13 - 20 has the most % of players (48.36%)

21 - 30 following with 32.68 %

Breaking the http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp ?

"# The average game player is 34 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
# The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 40 years old."

This 'study' is very inconclusive. First, the numbers are too small to make a generalization on a world wide scale. Second, this is a forum. it pertains to a specific game and a specific audience. it is not broad enough. third, average age doesnt necessarily mean that the average gamer is 30ish. It could also come from an example like this...one 15 year old and one 60 both are gamers, the average age between them would be 37 years old. Fourth, of course 40 years ls the average age of the purchasing person. advlt gamers buy their own games, while other advlts buy the games for their little kids. Its very unlikely that a little kid will buy a game himself. tsk, where would he get the money?

Yes u are correct.Sorry for my mistake.I need coffee.