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Who says you're too old to play video games?

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WNG:
And I thought video-gaming was a kiddie thing o.o

I was also surprised about the age of some of us. Maybe it is because of the world I grew in, but I had never heard of professional gamers under 40 years old before.

botebote77:
I'm a bit surprised at that info that the average age of gamers is older now.. from what i see, there are lots of young gamers who love mobile Freemium games.. or maybe they did not include mobile Freemium gamers in that research

efko:

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--- Quote from: efko on 28 August 2018, 19:50:29 ---Many people here above 40 have no clue how to use pc nor phones with OS. My mom could not learn to use her simple small nokia for 9 years of having it, she never remembered how to use sms, yes I agree it wasn't simple but far away from hard. So depends on location, with 200e salary there is not.much to expect.
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This point of view you are talking about, call it conservationist, though it will turn retrograde over time. It has nothing to do with salary. Some 200 years ago people did not have much mass entertainment other than alchohol and perhaps religion. XX century added tv/radio, widespread sports and professional sports. There had been games that children do not play for a long time already. I would rather expect more cyber entertainment coming, for different ages and social strata.

Your mom does not use phone not because she can't, but because she does not need to, like Medea says. If she will suddenly finds there something she likes... In a new model perhaps. And with large enough text too - text size in any phone is a big roadblock. My own mom 70 y.o. now learned to use the internet. Not on a phone, on pc but damn it, she almost spends more time there then I do

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I disagree with most of your text. Money is very important thing here, not talking about paying for games, but about how people are without freedom and fighting from month to month for life. There are no options if you don't have money, for basic expenses goes about 100e, for healthy food 10-20e  daily for 2 persons which means money is divided in 2 direction, now everything else is luxury and investments in other things are almost impossible, so people are in stress most of time. I don't understand why we people from balkan are not secured with at least food, and some countries in west and north europe are living on our back. It is well known how that was done on purpose through causing wars here so we can became modern slaves of west. Maybe is little better in Russia, but it should be similar situation like here. In past people were simple with simple point of view, now you can't watch tv anymore, you have to be expert for android phone in order to use, you can't use online newspapers nor newspapers from market and won't go with examples because I went offtopic.
About my mom she could not figure buttons on her phone, and I know many people from similar years range with same problem. She wanted to know how to send sms to people but after month or 2 of not using sms, she was in confusion. Circumstances were like that so she was always focused on other things. She played in past simple tetris which works on batteries, also simple games on her phone. Text size was mostly not a problem. So its all about freedom and secured life.

mammoth_hunter:
I don't think you properly understand me.


Learning ability deteriorates with age, but not to the point of total incapability. Like other things it is mediated by motivation and reward. If said motivation is near zero, learning is hard. By common citation, kid sees how the ball rolls, while adult knows how the ball rolls. Older people exist in a set of already developed schemes of reality and hate to leave them, the further - the worse. After living for 40-50-60 years you get to see this sparky gadget, blip blop, ahahah what do I need it for, look at funny images? I would rather keep living like I lived. Its worse for women when some of them hate to understand technology at all, much worse with age. Going by example of my mom, my father is familliar with internet since 90s, but he also needed that for his job. While my mother lived with that retrograde attidude - "I do not need this" - and what was she doing, reading (paper) books she has read 3-4 times alredy, while she could possibly get any kind of info or entertainment. Appropriate reward does it, I think it was damn videos with cats :facepalm:. Or maybe she was just bored to death at last to try anything.


What income do you think these people have?

Spoiler for Hiden:

TV was also considered luxury at certain point. If there is a demand there will be offer and people will find a way. Computer games were first developed for kids, sure, and this attitude towards them will stay for some time, most likely a generation will have to pass. Traditional and / or authoritarian societies will likely actively shun "deviations" too. Until they become mainstream. Then, in ~20 years, internet will be full of bored chinese pensioners, and whats left of Nordic and Crate will be developing games for them - mark my word.  :) To complete this joke, Crate has experience in dealing with overaged crowd, and can pioneer it, can they?

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