Average age of EQ players?Follow

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Hmm ,That means you should be between 49-59 years old...thats not so old.

Which goes to my theory that not everyone began playing EQ when they were kids/teens. I think I mentioned this elsewhere but I was invited to play EQ by two friends from IRC. *They* had been brought into the game by one's sister/brother-in-law who were EQ Beta testers. Never having played (or heard of) MMORPGs at the time, and knowing my friends from a 21+ IRC channel, I "assumed" only adults were in EQ. Needless to say when I was asked by a random toon in (then) West Commons to be his gf, followed immediately by "How old r u? I'm 12." I was a bit discombobulated to say the least.

A pleasure to meet you, Dagowaldt!

I'm 22. Firiona Vie general chat would have me believe the average age is 16.

To be fair, that study is highly misleading because many market analysts lump social games (like FarmVille and other Facebook games) in the 'online gaming' category. That muddies the waters significantly because the driving force of social gaming.....has been women. That has not been the case with MMOs, at any point in their history. Given some MMOs and their subtle misogynistic underpinnings, that would stand to reason. With the Asian design style catching on in the West (Runes of Magic, TERA, Aion, etc), that trend shows no sign of abating. In every GDC since something like 2005 or so, there is almost always a panel on how to attract women to MMOs (not 'online gaming', MMOs, due to the obfuscation of the category by the mainstream press) and how that is the next untapped market since the MMO population seems to have leveled out (new games cannibalize older games, they don't often bring new people to the genre).

To answer the OP question, I'm 39 and I am an unabashed multiboxer. I've been playing EQ since Thanksgiving Day of '99 (played Gemstone, TheRealm, Meridian59, and Ultima Online prior to that) though I didn't start boxing until much later (2005ish). Ironically, I got kind of tired of dealing with the issues that often come with grouping (fighting to a camp...and then the cleric or tank announces they have to go, people abusing the 'need before greed' rule, poorly geared tanks willfully stepping into situations they know they can't handle, etc) so I rolled a warrior to complement my cleric main (at the time). I'd fill the group with LFG friends and not care what classes they were (since I already had the keystone pair). It kinda snowballed from there when I'd make an alt on one of the three accounts, really like the class and then split it off onto a new account. It also allowed me to help folks with older content that no one wants to do. Helped a cleric last week do her 1.0 from Ixiblat all the way to Ragefire (farming shards included). I also have a long list of epics for my own characters that I have to do and those will probably be piggybacked with others, wherever possible. All in all, I love the flexibility boxing allows me and every one of my clerics is better than their merc counterpart (same for my wizards and rogues and most of my tanks).





FV general has its moments. Like, we had an awesome discussion last night on the core mechanics of EQNext and how it relates to what's hot/acceptable in the industry. Someone misread an interview with Smed and thought he said EQNext would revolve around PvP. That struck me as backward, given the fact that they're expecting that game to actually do well, from a mainstream perspective (PvP games don't tend to do that). Most of the better discussions tend to happen late night though (the above happened around 2am or so this morning. Finalstand of F&F really knows his stuff).

Always, But which one is the problem! Ranger or Cleric? Both are great boxing with Jonwin when I can get to elne clares computer. Are enough folks on 6 to 11 pm eastern to make it worth the one way trip?

31 here. Started in 2001. Father is 64 and started the same year.

I find that funny because there was a time on this forum where the necro post would have been karma bombed and the poster flamed.

30 here been playing on and off since 2001.

Started playing when I was 17, am now 25, but recently stopped, despite it being Free-To-Play, 'cause I just got kinda...bored.

A lot of memories over the past 8 years, my first guild(Orbis Amicitia, which then merged into Legendary Bloodlines on Maelin Starpyre), weekly EQ sessions with some of the cool people here back in '07, a fairly memorable day where my aforementioned guild decided that, despite it being well below most of the members' levels, and not being a hotzone, that we had to bring as many people to Unrest as possible for no reason other than Unrest being one of the funnest zones in the game. That one time some guy challenged me to a duel, killed me outright, apologized and offered to move my corpse out of a dangerous area for me, and then proceeded to hide it in a distant corner of GFay behind a tree. I had to hire a ranger to find the damn thing for me...


Good times, man, good times.

I am 29. Started playing April 2000 when i was 17 (had to use my dads credit card!). Jumped around servers before settling in on EC'I. My main was a Warrior hence my name. Quit after the guild i was in beat Plane of Time as after Planes of Power expansion the original game was lost to me. It wasn't the same anymore.

Moved on to other games but could never quite got the same feeling that everquest first gave me when i started playing. I played EQ2 for years (started playing that in January 2005) a few months after release. It was fun but the only similarity was the name. Game was completely different. While i did my fair share of raiding in EQ2 it wasn't the same as EQ's raiding system.

Anyways after about an 8 year hiatus I am back! On the Tunare server which merged with EC'I back in the day. Unfortunately my original account was sold off shortly after i left the game in 2003 so i had to start fresh. But having so much fun levelling again. It really doesn't feel like a chore at all!

35. Played since 2003 on and off.

42. Played since Beta with exception to a short break in late '99 and a 2 year break from 2010 to 2012.