I'm growing a bit concerned over the age of WoW players.Follow

Firstly, I 100% agree with what Allegory said. I've seen 10 year olds more mature than 30 year olds.

I'm only 15 - I've been punted out of groups because I'm '2 yung 4 dem and wil wind dem up'. It got me so wound up, I just logged off and resorted to a bit of counterstrike. (We had an 8(EIGHT) year old play in a clan match last night - he came in second, over a couple in their mid twenties, age seriously does not matter. Maybe bedtimes, however, but he was on untill 11pm, which made my stomach turn a bit)

I also agree with those squeaky people on Vent/TS, albeit I'm one of them (My voice hasn't broken yet, goddamn it better break soon, or I'll break it myself). I'm constantly being asked if I'm a girl - I'm fine with it, I wind them up by saying yes, waiting for their reaction. (Some people think they can go further than asying 'ok' ^_^ <3 those kinda people so much!). Because of this - I hardly talk, I might say 'Hi' or 'G'night' when someone joins or logs for the night, but that's about it. (Although I sometimes join with a friend, who's a year older than me to talk, he denies I sound like a girl, but too many other people think I do)

I think people have to stop slacking young people off. Sure, there are lots of kids that just go around jumping around ninja-pulling the whole goddamn instance. That's why you can kick people out of instances; ignore them; and if they're swearing at you, deliberatly winding you up - generally griefing you, just report them. I was reported for swearing at someone who was supporting Gold Buying. IN. THE. GUILD. (Not saying swearing's allowed, I meant the RMT thing.)

Agreed, age plays a fair share of it, but it's their maturity that finalises it. There's too many other, maybe smaller factors in it just to blanket 'Youngsters'

chiel = 19? damn boy. i thought you was like 35 or some ****. now im the old one at 25.

*looks around* where the hell are tyr and seo when i need to feel young dammit?!

Yes in my younger guild, we had many teenagers that thought that they were tough if they cursed out another player. My friend takes everything so seriously sometimes that he'll talk and yell at the computer like it's real life.

Back in old EQ, years ago, it wasn't kids who were destroying the game -- it was a rather racist idea that "Taiwanese are destroying our server." Yes, that was what many people believed. For some reason, a lot of Taiwanese people joined our server and made a huuuuuuge guild - the something dragons. They almost never talked to anyone else, they often never grouped w/ anyone else - and when they did, they did weird and very unexpected things. They just had a different way of playing, different rules for looting - and very poor English - for the most part. And they did have a way of barging in and stepping on other people not in their guild. But it didn't ruin the game - you just had to figure out ways to ignore them. You often had to move in old EQ if other people came into your hunting area and thinned what there was to kill, anyway.

I think the solution, really, is for Bliz to reinstate the old spam channel - the old LFG channel. That keeps these kiddies out of our hair. Now they've coopted the /2 channel in cities. There are Chuck jokes, Murloc jokes - yo mama so... jokes - many insults are hurled - pure love-fest. Bliz, pls give these people their moron channel, and save the game!

I try not to judge someone based on their age cause I know some young players who are better than most. As long as they talk somewhat maturly(no l33t) and don't get me killed im fine. Though, I have to say the IQ lvl is getting pretty low lately. All you can really do is ignore them. WoW has it the worst cause its so easy.

Mike, you need at least two players to make it a guild.

In all seriousness though, yeah. The World of Warcraft crowd is definitely more immature than the crowd I played with in Star Wars Galaxies (yes, the game did in fact exist once).

I also blame World of Warcraft for making me the attention seeking ***** that I am today. And for ruining my English. God I hate this game and yet I want it sooo much!

I saw a guild called "Geriatrics" once. That was good for a chuckle.

I don't care what age you are. I just care if you're mature. Lots of people are chronologically over twenty and still immature, while I know of a number of under-fifteen players who would be mature for a twenty year-old, much less fifteen or less.

It seems like there is a wave of people who have watched YouTube, Google Video, etc., and see all the PvP "pwnz0rz" videos, and want to play just to be "that guy in that video". Also, a lot of the foulmouthed, self-important, arrogant people who want to be 'leet', or make a character that "has the best DPS", "can pwn all others in PvP", etc. seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Ironically enough, I suspect that a lot of them come from the FPS genre, since that genre more than RPG focuses on the individual player rather than being part of a cohesive group like many MMOs concenrate on.

The other thing I find annoying , and at the same time rather amusing, is the same people that I've met that want to be uber and get to 60 (there are a few in my guild who constantly brag about how great they are) are also the ones begging for gold, PLs, gear, run-throughs of instances, etc. I even had one guildie kicked from my guild after he bragged about buying a thousand gold. I dislike braggarts, but I absolutely loathe people that brag about buying gold as if it were an accomplishment.

Heh, my original alliance guild thought the same thing about me at first. I grouped with one party in Dire Maul and got on vent with them and one guy thought I was a 13-year-old boy. I pointed out that I was not, everyone laughed, we went on and killed stuff.

Later got in an UBRS run with the guild and asked a question in vent. The guild leader (also female) yells "WHO THE **** WAS THAT?" Apparently, though everyone knew I was a couple with the rogue that also just joined, and the rogue was male, they assumed I was male too, because I played a male character. Then creepy gnomes started hitting on me cause of my pretty teenage-boy voice and now that I'm horde it's creepy undead hitting on me cause of my pretty teenage-boy voice. :)

The OP is hyped for FFXI when he was 13. That was 3 years ago so you are what 16.
Back in your box youngster.

Hate to disappoint, but the age descrimination laws only apply to people over 40. You can discriminate all you want against younger people.

This is what happens when you design a game for the casual player. They show up.

Part of me is surprised that WoW is still so successful, but then I look at the marketplace and it occurs to me that there is nothing else out there.

Pray for a Diablo 3. High schoolers dig that crap.

I'm 13 atm, and I usually type in complete sentences when I want to be serious. As for joking with my guild and stuff, I'll use leet speak. But in serious situations I don't prefer to be with clowns and jokesters(unless they know the difference between being funny and just being an inconvenience to the group). Some players who are younger can be great players if they don't use they use they're young age as an excuse to be immature.

I want to start my own guild, but being young as I am, I think using vent, will stereotype me as immature. This makes it hard for younger players to give their ideas vent. I find the age descrimination to be unfair, if you want to make a line for seperating who can talk or make descisions/be taken seriously, I think it should be by player maturity, not by how they sound or how old they are.

If a young player is being immature, I think he/she is making it hard for the intellegent/good young players to stand up and give ideas. Because I know a few players from the younger age group who have some great playing abilites and skills.

In conclusion not all young players are bad. It's just the players who don't know the line between immature, being funny, and plain annoying.