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I don't really mind multiplayer games, honest. It's just that 99% of them are FPS and just too quick and too button-mashing-happy for me. Too much blood and gore and fearing for one's life.
The largest online gaming market by FAR is of course the turn based sharing games like Farmville on Facebook. That player-base dwarfs pretty much any other market at this point.
Ah yes, see, Taccy, that is part of the problem. I won't even join in on Guild Wars with other people unless I know them all personally, because I hate the feeling that I'm weighing down the group of 14-yr-old boys who are simultaneously messaging everyone about the idiot archer they let into their group. LOL
Try this on for size: I help run one of the guilds in Mechwarrior Online, We are a guild of about 30 people, and our youngest member is in his 30s. Stepping out to the entirety of House Marik, which is sort of the larger "faction" in which our guild resides, and I have yet to run into even ONE player under 25 years old on our Teamspeak sever (which is crowded and busy), and this is in a much larger pool of players.
I am sure there are kids playing this game, but the idea that you or I would be the lone adult swimming in a sea of tweens is just silly in this day and age, as is the idea that the older people are always somehow the weak players in a group that are dragging the rest of the people down. In practice, it's the kids that have short attention spans, don't follow up on things they say they will do, and general cause disfunction in a group - not the adults!
"As of 2011, the average age for a video game player is 37,[1] a number slowly increasing as people who were children playing the first arcade, console and home computer games continue playing now on current systems.[2] The gender distribution of gamers is reaching equilibrium, according to a 2011 study showing that 58% of gamers are male and 42% female.[1] As of 2011, ESA reported that 71% of people age six to forty-nine in the U.S. played video games, with 55% of gamers playing on their phones or mobile devices.[1] The average age of players across the globe is mid to late 20s, and is increasing as older players grow in numbers.[3]"
TLDR: I would rather play games with Austruck than some random "elite" teen any day!
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I've got a mate who's in his early 50s and who's all sorts of good at CoD etc. He's practically given up playing online apart from with small groups of friends.
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It's fitting actually because I actually brought the controller from the same place I sold it too. It was buggy the first time I got it and I just couldn't be arsed to bring it back, so just brought the official controller. But then I thought to myself, well if these guys are content with selling me buggy controllers, it must mean that they don't inspect them, init? So I thought i'd go back, over a year later and, well, the rest is history. 