59 here still work full time job sometimes 50+ hours
still play WOW and enjoying life and haven fun, wont stop till iam dead)P
I will be 57 also in October.
62 here, retired in Marchā¦ early BC beginnings for me.
Nope, I donāt play in moms basement. I play in my study.
I donāt deal with bedtimes, homework, or zits. I do have to sometimes mitigate spousal aggro.
I am playing classic very casual. I do have an alt army in retail, whatās this supposed rush to 60 about.
And no, I tried not to, but I did create an alt, and spent today playing it, instead of my classic main.
I am enjoying remembering what I thought I had forgotten. Who needs Questie.
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disabled vet been playing mmoās since asherons call in 96/7ish, til 3-4 months into nilla. oh, 59 now. 
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I started befor then then my ftrist mmo was a d%d game on atri 2600 then was migh and magic and then a tandy 1000 ect ect
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Does anyone here remember MUDs? Yeah, Iām still looking for the guy that kept leaving āpoison piesā all over the placeā¦ Iām gonna catch him and Iām gonna break his legā¦
Ran my own player kill mud for years. Limited good gear. The only way to get it is to kill the other person and take all their stuff.
This. This is how I prefer to play. Clear trash? Sure. Itās about the journey for me, not just the destination. Someone didnāt run back as quickly as I did? Fine - I have time to get something out of the fridge. And often enough I get lost, and Iām the slowbie. Need a break? Fine - we all bio. I just donāt get the mad rush. Unless the serverās going down and you want one more attempt before that happens, no rush! And if you donāt make it before it goes down - itās a game. See you after reboot.
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57ā¦ played since vanilla closed beta, still racing motorcycles rl, though currently sitting here with trashed knee from 80MPH crash last week.
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I am 45 and shamelessly allow my kids to play video games provided they aren in a sport and get outside. Fortunately its super balanced and they are doing really well in school, and socializing well.
I keep bumping into parents, not all the time mind you, who treat video games as strictly fluff, meaningless time wasters, who insist on isolating their kids from themā¦before they lower their heads back into their phones and scrape at their social media.
Cheers to you Gen Xers ( im not sure if Im one) and boomers for paving the way.
I can only imagine the stigma was worse. Luckily, most parents my age can more easily embrace a gaming lifestyle and the kidsā friends actually think Im alright for playing.
Isnāt it funny how as we age, there is a cultural norm that tells us we canāt have as much fun? Itās stupid. I hope to change that.
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I have a decade till 55, but I am getting an early start on that ageās mindset and often yell at clouds.
Are they any casual guilds formed up and accepting new members that require a high minimum age to join? I see some talk of a few in this thread but canāt seem to find more specific information on guild names and servers.
OTG is still very active. google itā¦ old timers guild
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Iām 63.
Pretty sure that means Iām a boss.
My main ability is sarcasm.
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Man old age can be a drag, I am 68. Would be fun to be 20 again. That said, age hasnāt held me back. I have climbed 3 of the 7 Summit peaks since I turned 60 (Denali, Elbrus, and Aconcagua) and until recently I have been playing competitive flat track roller derby.
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I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
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59 very soon. Warcrafting since 2006.
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Iām getting there Iāll be 54 this year
Its good to see lots of older players like myself.
Playing solo at the moment Iāve tried guilds before
but way to much drama going on and had enough.
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I will be 55 in March. I started MMORPGās with a short sampling of both Ultima Online & EverQuest, but Dark Age of Camelot in 2001 was my first MMORPG love affair.
You donāt really realize it until you get there, but older people are nothing but their same younger selves trapped in aging, older bodies - though usually wiser, more pragmatic, less idealistic & more introspective as a result of their life journey.
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Why did you feel the need to necro a thread about age and then write on about your lifeā¦ you sound like 12 to me not 54