Does anyone know of a guild that would be good for my mom? She is in her late 70s and we just lost my dad so she is a bit lonely. I suggested wow. She hasn’t even started yet but I want to see if there is a guild out there for people of her age range. Ideally a 40 plus guild but one with several in their 70s would be great! At first and maybe always she will be learning and leveling. She may never get beyond that idk we will have to see how it goes. But I would like to find a group of much older adults she could play with or even hop in discord with. Where she won’t feel too many decades too old. Any advice on realm or guild or anything really would be appreciated. As I plan to make her an account soon. I should maybe say alliance and retail not classic. Thanks in advance.
Can I offer some advice, that may not be what you are looking to hear. Starting to video game at 70 will be rough for her. I tried to get my father into gaming around the same age. He was excited to play. It was his idea more than mine. All his time was spent asking “where are you” and walking into walls. He eventually gave up. Plus, encouraging her to find a hobby that keeps her sedentary doesn’t sound ideal. There may be a senior gaming community out there that will work for her, but honestly even my guild of adults makes me feel old in my mid forties. She would be more likely to end up doing solo activity in game. My mother played years ago and mostly fished. She never got into any of the group activities because it stressed her out. I am sorry for your loss and I may be totally off base, since I obviously don’t know your mother. I wish you both the best.
Thank you for that input those are great thoughts! I’ll keep that in mind for sure👍
Check the Mal ganis forums. if I recall they have a guild of age 55+ players there.
Classic might be easier for her to start out on. That game is a bit more straight forward than retail.
Hi there Velle, screw those people telling you its going to be hard for her. There is no reason for her not to try it out. I am 50 years old as the GM of my guild (its actually a huge community that plays TONS of games) and even if I have some trouble and certainly do not push high keys or min/max my characters to death like these young jits… WoW has a place for everyone and so does my guild.
We currently have someone that’s just starting brand new to the game, she played FF14 mostly. So there are always a few new players out there that need our guidance and we’re more than happy to provide that. Especially because we do come from a cross-game community of over 5500+ players… someone is always interested in trying out WoW. And a good many of them stay!
We also had our “Pops” (Thomas, aka Big Tom), he started to play with us when he was 76 years old — he played with us for 13 years before he passed at the age of 89. He was a Vietnam vet who was married to his wife for 53 years when she died of cancer. He decided to start WoW to find new friends and had never gamed before. He helped us as the “guild crafter”. He LOVED the crafting in this game (dunno if he would today though haha) and he contributed to our raids by making us all our mats and so on. And he’d also come and do all the social events we host like Cards Against Humanity and Pictionary and Scrabble! He was the best part of our guild and we will NEVER forget him! 17 of us made the trip to Vermont for his funeral… and his family loves us (still hear from them even now) and hundreds more sent gifts and flowers. His eldest son started to play WoW because his dad would tell him all about us… he’s still in TLP today (although not actively playing WoW, he plays New World with TLP though).
These stories EXIST and they are the highlight of what makes this game so very special. So if you want your mom to experience something like that — she can! 100%… but she might need your help with it too! Especially like setting up key binds and stuff like that. But no one should ever tell you this isn’t a place for you to find the “diamonds in the rough” like us… I am sure there are other guilds with similar stories.
Come and hop into our Discord if you want to chat about our experience with the elders of our guild: discord.gg/HJDDS3E
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hello there not sure if this would help you but we have a smaller guild she would be welcome to join. not sure how she is with discord but we do have one and a good amount of our members are in the older range. our guild master being one of them and she is on pretty much almost every day so is available to chat with often if that’s more what your moms looking for. let me know if she would like to join us and we will get it going