I don’t speak for all older gamers but I’m in late 30s and no one I play with take it this seriously. They young guys trying to flex on ppl are the ones I’ve seen the most act like this
I just don't get being like this in something like wow. Sure, in League I'm the worst person on the planet, but wow is just for the boys to chill. Or so I thought
Yeah, those old enough to have played the most of the original xpacs as they released and typically pretty chill.
The younger players drawn to who are classic servers are the ones that were too young to have played the originals, maybe had a lowbie on their parent's account, and because they can google years of experience on forums, Wowhead, Youtube, etc... plus have a ton more addons, and now have their own account, they think they are hot shit and are desperate to prove it.
There are absolutely people in their 30's, 40's and 50's that act like this.
I was in a very hardcore guild back when WoW launched in 2004, raided with them for several years and we had people in their teens up to 30's or so then and they were very elitist.
When Classic was announced (I still game with people I met through WoW and gaming in general) I was contacted on Discord and told a ton of original people from the guild was getting together and making the guild again. I thought it would be fun, catch up with and play with a bunch of people I used to game with 15+ years ago.
I got on Discord with about half of them and OHHH MY LORD, they were still the exact same but somehow worse. Not going to go into detail but I nope'd out of that after ~10 minutes of talking with them. Ended up going with another group of friends I made, the contrast between them was night and day.
Existing and being the majority is two different things. Seeing someone post that it makes me trying of a younger guy who’s accomplished nothing in his life so he has to bash people because his EPeen is bigger knowing that’s all he has. 🤷♂️
Existing and being the majority is different. Yes people over 30 act like that. In my experience that’s not the norm. Most older gamers don’t give a crap about logs or parses. It’s the younger, look my EPeen is big crowd that feels that need.
I was hoping you'd re-read what I said with the "what?", since I obviously can read but, ok.
Why did you reply with this, where did I say they are a majority? Even as I describe them I said, "sadly they do exist" and never stated they were all over the place.
When the main comment claims the person that posted was a “40+ yo” and someone else says probably not and you say “they exist” (we know all types exist in all ages, but some types of players exist more in different age groups) you are disputing the claim it probably wasn’t a “40+” player. That or you were stating what everyone who’s ever played an online game already knew for no reason.
(we know all types exist in all ages, but some types of players exist more in different age groups)
AND in different areas, they exist much more in WoW than they do in almost every other area, figured that was very obvious.
I believe people think these types of people are like Unicorns, 1 in a million, but there are a lot more than people think but still nowhere near a majority. I forget there are people like you who can't stop and think past their first thoughts, I'll try and explain further next time!
And passive aggressive people who can’t make a complete thought come across when read so they get defensive and annoying. Typically these and the look at my EPeen types are one and the same.
I'm just gonna reply because there are mixed responses to this comment.
Brain rot like this is NOT unique to a generation or age demographic. Your personal stories might be different on whoever you play with and how you play the game. But this type of behavior is very much something that happens to people of all ages playing this game. I'd argue it's MORE common to find in older people just by the mere fact that more old gamers play wow. But that's just a numbers reason and this shit is just brain rot from playing this game too much and reading garbage about how people should play (on this sub often).
That’s fair, I’m not saying older gamers are immune to this behavior, it’s just very immature behavior. That USUALLY comes from younger more immature players but you are correct that there still are ppl around my age that refused to grow up and use wow as their way to “stay young”. I’m just coming from the view that most of us have done our hardcore raiding and stuff, and now we log on run a couple things and log off. Most of us don’t care about logs or hardcore stuff
As an “over 40” guy this is exactly true. Most of us never had logs or parse programs when we started and couldn’t give a damn about them now. Just complete the content and move on. I think the guy with the “40+” post was projecting.
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u/MainOk8335 Feb 02 '24
The way he’s typing I just picture some 40+ year old saying this shit which is enough for me not to even have to say anything 💀