Majority of playerbase are kids?

[mercules 1290]

The majority of people who play games are underage...

 

Um... What? 

 

While there was a period of time this was true all us 18-year-olds became 30-year-olds became 40-year-olds. Since many kids can't play games like this due to complexity or parental rules you are talking about 9-18 for "ages" of underage players compared to the previous generations who still play games. Some of those were 30 when I was 15 and THEY STILL PLAY. So the Majority are actually over 20. I can point at 25+ people I know personally that are 30+ that play video games similar to DayZ. I can point at 6 that play DayZ itself. 

[broguenz 333]

Um... What? 

 

While there was a period of time this was true all us 18-year-olds became 30-year-olds became 40-year-olds. Since many kids can't play games like this due to complexity or parental rules you are talking about 9-18 for "ages" of underage players compared to the previous generations who still play games. Some of those were 30 when I was 15 and THEY STILL PLAY. So the Majority are actually over 20. I can point at 25+ people I know personally that are 30+ that play video games similar to DayZ. I can point at 6 that play DayZ itself. 

 

You could point at me. I'm 38.. way over the whole going out getting pissed thing, don't even drink any more. Have four kids, hate television, too critical to enjoy most movies, most conversation bores me..

 

Gaming is my escape from everyday crap thing.

 

I'll be playing games til I drop dead.

 

Hooah

Edited October 18, 2013 by RogueNZ

[HumanBeing25 299]

Lots of the gimme gimme everything now and don't make me work or think too hard to get it generation playing

 

Us older folk would have got our ass kicked for being a lazy ungrateful little shit and swearing at our elders way back..10 years ago.

 

Now its freakin normal behaviour

 

So jelly

LOL no. The shouting at mommy and calling her X because she refuses to give you something goes back to at least the 70s, but even in the 60s this occurred - probably not as often now.

It's a part of the political agenda to split families apart... but I won't go into that on this forum--yet.

[mercules 1290]

It's a part of the political agenda to split families apart... but I won't go into that on this forum--yet.

 

...or hopefully ever. They have forums for conspiracy nuts that will happily absorb that lunacy.

[Etherimp 1323]

The problem with "modern"  aka "younger" gamers is that they grew up during the tutorial generation where games hold your hand and walk you down a linear path while your health regenerates within a few seconds of taking damage and, just like the special Olympics, everyone is a winner in the end.

 

Contrast this with my generation (33 years of age)

 

I grew up on games like Ninja Gaiden, and later on, Quake II, Counter-Strike, etc. 

 

I'm not going to say that gamers now are "worse" at video games, only that they have been spoiled and become entitled. They never had the character building experience of spending an entire weekend after several months of practice making it to the final boss in Ninja Gaiden, just to die on his 2nd form and be thrown back to the very beginning of the area, losing all of your power-ups in the process.

 

DayZ is MEANT to be hard, and unreasonably cruel. It's meant to test your meddle and force you to make difficult decisions. It's a SURVIVAL game. The object is to SURVIVE.. 

 

There are better 1st person shooters if what you're looking for is constant PVP action.

And yet, somehow you see it.. You see servers catering to these clowns who want non-stop gun-battles. I'm not about to say gun-battles are not fun or that I do not enjoy occasionally hopping into a private hive server for some good ol' fashioned PVP action.. But these servers should not be the majority of our options and they should not be the most populated.

 

The fact that they are populated means that some people out there actually are attracted to the idea of 1000+ vehicles, which means you never have to experience the pain and frustration of getting shot and having your helicopter stolen RIGHT when you were on your way back to put the Main Rotor Assembly on..

 

It means they never get to experience the tension of being completely helpless in front of another survivor who's menacingly wielding a Winchester in your general direction while you stand there without so much as a backpack or a hatchet... Because those servers spawn you with items/gear/weapons.

 

It means they never get to experience running around in the dark with flares never knowing that you're being watched by a DMR sniper who has night vision, because there's never a night time on these servers..

 

It means they can fly willy-nilly over Elektro in broad daylight in a helicopter because if they get shot down they know they're only 10 minutes away from having another chopper.

 

Of course, this "EZMODE" version of DayZ attracts the entitled and the entitled are usually entitled because they've never had their character forged and sharpened to a hard, cold edge in the fires of Ninja Mother Fucking Gaiden and others of it's ilk. They've never experienced the ecstasy of overcoming something TRULY difficult and daunting in their entire life.

 

<3

[fluxley 2228]

What kids need these days is a good Ninja Mother Fucking Gaiden montage to whip them into shape!

 

[JIJOK 49]

Its hard find something funniest than a 14-16 years old kid's crying because you sniper him , read the " who killed me on fire station at cherno cry cry cry " has no price 

[HumanBeing25 299]

Its hard find something funniest than a 14-16 years old kid's crying because you sniper him , read the " who killed me on fire station at cherno cry cry cry " has no price 

Many 18+ players complain about that also, including myself. Yesterday I was just outside of my house, right by my locked base entrance (I have 2 doors), I was chopping wood and had no gear on me besides the axe, and some dirtbag, scum of the Earth, shot me 4 times. When I came back to my dead body after 30+ minutes of running, he had looted my body and the wood I had chopped - but for what? There are no bases in a 2000m radius from my base, so what the hell does the wood mean to him? It's one of those dirtbags who enter a server, break rules or go rampant, and then leave hours later and never come back again.

[Kaffarov37 125]

I don't mind how young the player is. As long as he is mature enough thein their is no issue

[Elo 44]

I thought, from viewing members of this forum, that most were at least 16 or 18, but most aren't even 16.

 

Half the posts on these forums are annoying memes and (anime) reaction images. You should've been able to figure out the mental age of most people in here by that alone.

Edited October 20, 2013 by Elo