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An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi
vinnie2k writes "This is an interesting interview with the founder of 2old2play.com. In it he discusses the future of gaming for older people, why we need communities like 2old2play, and how the gaming industry needs to refocus its efforts on the games it makes. Cool insight and worth the read for any older gamers."
WTF? Since when is anyone over the age of 25 an "old gamer?" Now, Old Grandma Hardcore is an old gamer.
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I'm 41 and play Counter Strike Source on a daily basis. I am not too old to play.
Self awareness - try it!
...to use numbers instead of words and pluralize with a 'Z'.
"An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi"
who is this 2old2play and why are we interviewing his "Doodi"?
/. is overrun by bed-wetting elitist nerds
let it be known, for anything other than servers, a *nix OS sucks
but TFA makes it clear that in the gaming world; 25 is the new 60!
It sounds more like "gaming for gamers who have a life". Many of the MMORPGs require so much online time per week to advance that you can't have a life outside the game.
Hey, you're never 2old to be /.'ed!
A 26yo declaring that anyone over 25 is "too old"? Let me be the first to stand up and yell "stupid young whippersnapper!"
*sigh* Kids these days...
The founder of a group called 2old2play is younger than I am? I went to the article expecting to see some insightful commentary from somebody at least in his 40's. I stopped reading when I got to his age.
Then again, now that I look closer at his name and the name of the group, I have a hard time believing he's over 18.
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
I find it strange how the stereotype of gaming has been given to younger people. There doesn't seem to be anything inherent in gaming itself that keeps itself from older people. Perhaps it is only the industry which gears itself towards younger people, because it has more widely available material to be used. If the industry had sufficient material (perhaps just better storylines?), I can't see any good reason why gaming wouldn't be popular among all ages aside from social stigmas.
-Da3vid-
Today I was playing some Enemy Territory (Sniper mod) for a few hours.
Server was a Clan branded one, and a few of the members joined in the frag fest (well as much of a fest as sniper mod can be, but I digress).
To my surprise, they asked me to try out for their clan.
My response? How late do you play as I am old (well not really but I have responsibilities)
Average age of the clan? 32.
That was a surprise to me.
I guess certain games attract different age groups (duh) but I would have thought that a *clan* would generally be younger folks.
Anyone else have this experience?
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I'm an old timer. I recently found a very challenging game, exciting, and fraught with risk. The game is called Automatic Transmission. Take it apart. Try to put it back together. Hope that it works. Fun.
As a co-founder of 2old2play.com, I am also disappointed with the bitching here on slashdot regarding the article. The reason we picked 25 as a staring age is because it's when most people mature, start families, have kids, etc. Our oldest member is in his 80's and we have plenty in between. I'm 32 myself, so we do cover the "older gamers" crowd... DSmooth
SUCH A WASTE of time. If my kids spent half the time that they play games on learning a computer language, then they would be pulling down six figure salaries.
Which is the most important thing, after all.
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i agree completely! i wish my father could play video games with any skill, it would give us at least one thing to talk about. however one of my uncles, i have happily spent many evenings laughing cheerfully as we killed prostitutes in GTA:San Andreas. truly, when this last gap is gone and everyone plays games, it will return to a more family time, with more leisure time spent together. i look forward to killing prostitutes with my own son/daughter (heh, just had to go back and add /daughter, guess i just learned something about my hopes for the future) in a cyber worldthat sounds like a joke but i'm deadly serious
I'm 30 years old, but I remember playing the my first Sierra game, Kings Quest .
From a very early age I was programming, TRS80's etc. Lucky my old man was a programmer, we had all types of all gear lying about.
My Favourites were:
Space Quest
Police Quest
Hero's Quest
Leisure Suit Larry
And last but not least: Zork
I am disappointed to see they no longer make such games, now moving to more action type games. Adventure games were cool.
I'm over 40, and I regularly play Lego Starwars with my 7yo son (highly rcommended game btw). And I play Doom 3 after he's gone to bed.
Since when was there an age limit?
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
"... If my kids spent half the time that they play games on learning a computer language, then they would be pulling down six figure salaries..."
If you love your kids, then for God's sake don't be saying shit like that around them!
When your dog bites someone and has to be destroyed, you tell your kid that it's gone to live on a farm where it can chase rabbits all day without getting in trouble.
Say your kid catches you downing your first stiff scotch of the day at 08:30. You tell them its "special medicine" for grownups.
Your wife boots you out, so you tell the kid that mommy and daddy are going to spend a little time apart so they don't yell at each other so much.
- These are all inconsequential, harmless, miniscule white lies compared to the black, satanic, evil untruth that software development is a desirable and highly-paid profession.
T&K.
Political language
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I object to that article, and to the next reply.