Cymru Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Some time back there was a thread about our age, and I was surprised to find than the average was around forty. I assumed this was an aberration, WW2 attracting older players, but it seems we are mainstream The average gamer is 37, according to the Entertainment Software Association, and for the most frequent buyers, the average age is 41. Totally blows my image of pimply teens in their parents' basement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 No, it's pimply middle-aged guys in their parent's basements. How sad is that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slysniper Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 What is worse than that, on this forum the average age is much older than those stats, so does that mean we have old men living in their dead parent's basements? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 That certainly takes the creepiness factor way off the scale, doesn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altipueri Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 What is worse than that, on this forum the average age is much older than those stats, so does that mean we have old men living in their dead parent's basements? No, parents are in the basement being kept alive so we can live off their pension. Reverse Austrian joke, or some such. Still acting like a teenager, but who cares. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Still acting like a teenager, but who cares. Your parents. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medex Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 No, it's pimply middle-aged guys in their parent's basements. How sad is that? Hey.. don't be so critical of all those guys in the Peng threads. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Your parents. Who are very disappointed in how you turned out and really question the wisdom of having you in the first place. "But he was so cute as a baby!" Kind of reminds me of a quote I came across in a novel recently: "Little girls grow up to be women. Little boys grow up to be little boys." Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwleonard Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 You guys are freakin me out, man. PS: 54 years old. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Guy Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Compared to you guys, I am a spritely 43 now. My wife would say a kiddish 13 and my kids look at me as if I am decrepid 83 but in my mind I am 23. There is no winning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I think the average here would be about 12 if it weren't for Emrys The Eternal 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Actually, there is a member on this board who is a year older than me. I protect his identity as a matter of courtesy. The fact that I have forgotten it doesn't count. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argie Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Actually, there is a member on this board who is a year older than me. I protect his identity as a matter of courtesy. The fact that I have forgotten it doesn't count. Michael I'm shocked to know that Lazarus is a wargamer! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Hey.. don't be so critical of all those guys in the Peng threads. (Writes Medex' name down in his Book of Those Who Bear Watching and Stuff) I will remember that, sirrah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidFields Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 52. Figure I will retire at 62. That should be just about when the CM2+ Russian Front Consolidated 41-45 Massive Multiplayer edition will be able to be downloaded to my goggle-enhanced-to-give-a-360-degree-view-of-the-steppes rig, which will be 2000 faster than the one I have now. The Brain-wave control activated version will not quite be ready...though it will have been promised by BFC years earlier....when people using the motion activated controls started accidently hurting themselves when then hit walls while directing artillery strikes. And....certain...forum members (our sigs will all be 3D representations as us in a historic general's uniforms) will be arguing about the Russian soldier's shaving habits, and how battles in the afternoon inaccurately simulate the stubble of the combatants. [ok, it is true, BFC let me peak at their strategic business plans --question, will "smilies" still exist then?] Personally, I think BFC should be more ambitious than that--particularly if the value of their company 10 years from now is, as is likely, approaching Microsoft's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I'm 54 and I go to my man room to play! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Guy Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 You have a man room? I guess I also have one, it is called the laundry room and it contains a homemade bench and you guessed it, laundry. Maybe in 10 years I will get my own room. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 That should be just about when the CM2+ Russian Front Consolidated 41-45 Massive Multiplayer edition will be able to be downloaded to my goggle-enhanced-to-give-a-360-degree-view-of-the-steppes rig, which will be 2000 faster than the one I have now. The Brain-wave control activated version will not quite be ready... Just one catch. You must think.... in Russian. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Maybe in 10 years I will get my own room. That'll be handy. I imagine by then the dog will be starting to resent having to share his bed with you. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Just one catch. You must think.... in Russian. Think? Why start now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 39 here.Or was that 93.I lose track as I get older. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 39 here. Yeah, sure. You and Jack Benny. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 btw this is not a computer game this is an accurate military strategy simulation as I regularly inform my son who rolls his eyes and tells me to act my age. 47 that's not too old for a battalion CO is it ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymru Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 Actually, there is a member on this board who is a year older than me. I protect his identity as a matter of courtesy. The fact that I have forgotten it doesn't count. Michael At 68 I am beyond worrying 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixxkiller Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Damn you guys are old. I havent aged since CMBO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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