The 'Age' Arguement

[p0nd3r4]

Ever been pulled into a noob arguement, written English back at the antagonist then been told you're too old to play the game and labeled 'sad' by the noob(s)?

 

 

 

I'm only 17 and I've had loads of that, but my stance on the whole thing is simple:

 

Being older/mature you can still enjoy playing games like RuneScape, the only difference is you seem to be 80 IQ points smarter than everyone else and your balls are bigger.

 

 

 

I really don't like the increasing values being placed on things that, quite frankly, don't even matter (skin colour, musical genre preferences, age, nationality, political stance, etc.).

 

Anyone else ever faced moronic prejudice like this and what do you think of it? If you haven't, what's your stance on it anyway?

[peterbluer]

I hate prejudice. A pre-idea.

 

I don't argue with people though. Just wait until their attention slips...

[Sbrideau]

What you say is true, and there's even a thread on the official forums about that... But right now i'm kind of off topic.

 

 

 

On topic, Just to say I'm almost 20 and this happens a lot to me too... Why do they have to care that much about our age... We have the right to play as much as they do... Adults have the right to do something else than work and that's what those kids and young teens don't know since they always had what they wanted, which is not the case with the generation before them.

 

 

 

If parents wouldn't give them all what they want, they would be less selfish and let the older ones play... Andrew himself posted on the forums, when the change to rule 2 occurred, and stated that the game is not for children and young teens, but for themselves and players like them in the same group of age, and I don't think any of them would be teens...

 

 

 

I think that's all I had to say.

[Abyssalwhip]

Personally on RS I don't care about age, they can be an immature 32 year old and piss me off or be an 8 year old and be mature enough.

[sparticus348]

It doesn't have anything to do with age at all. Some 20 years olds are idiots while some 8 year olds are highly intelligent. Your just being stereotypical. In addition, there might be some kids who are stupid on the games because they find it funny... :lol: .

[scn64]

I'm 22, almost 23, and I still play on occasion.

[who_ryan]

Personally on RS I don't care about age, they can be an immature 32 year old and piss me off or be an 8 year old and be mature enough.

 

i completely agree with that

[Bauke]

When I was like 10-12 I always thought older people didn't play games anymore and stuff, and just do "mature things". Lol, how wrong was I. It's too bad, but Runescape is inhabited by people that I could almost have been the father of, sadly.

[Locke_Superbus]

i would say i hate bigots, but that would make me as much a bigot as them, so i take people for what they are, if theyre an idoit then theyre an idiot etc

[Mr_Cheese]

Personally on RS I don't care about age, they can be an immature 32 year old and piss me off or be an 8 year old and be mature enough.

 

i completely agree with that

 

 

 

same

[Toxicologist]

A good thing about the Internet is that there are no age barriers. Everyone is more or less treated equally, regardless of age. People are judged by their essence, and not by their appearance.

[RayOxide]

Well, I hate it, I'm 40. Yet all I get is "You're a pervert.. Etc"

[Iantiger]

I recently turned 20, but I don't seem to get much prejudice thankfully. On the rare occasion that somebody asks my age and I tell them, they usually say "Really?" or "lol i'm only 14" or something like that. In fact recently I've noticed an increase in the maturity of your average young player, but then I've probably just been fortunate, and ignored anybody that shows some sort of immaturity (i.e.: starts the conversation with noob).

 

 

 

~Ian

[RayOxide]

I recently turned 20, but I don't seem to get much prejudice thankfully. On the rare occasion that somebody asks my age and I tell them, they usually say "Really?" or "lol i'm only 14" or something like that. In fact recently I've noticed an increase in the maturity of your average young player, but then I've probably just been fortunate, and ignored anybody that shows some sort of immaturity (i.e.: starts the conversation with noob).

 

 

 

~Ian

 

 

 

Lol. True. Majority of people under 15 are stupid, or atleast immature, sometime Naive. But not me :ohnoes:

 

 

 

Btw, I Said I'm 40. LOL I'm 13. You'd see from a different post.

[dragoonson]

Personally on RS I don't care about age, they can be an immature 32 year old and piss me off or be an 8 year old and be mature enough.

 

 

 

The best players are the underaged trying to seem natural.

 

 

 

The worse are the idiotic hormone-crazed kids with such bad acne the only girl the could kiss(mum)doesn't want it anymore

[KingWenlok]

You're never too old to play games. If that's what you find fun, so be it- don't let others spoil it for you. There are plenty of adult players out there in RuneScape, yet some children seem to overlook that and believe that THEY are the only age groups that play. So when they meet an adult, they'll automatically believe that these people are sad because they're in 'their' game. I am, of course, talking about the immature groups who think they own the place. Thankfully, not all children are like this. As Abyssalwhip nicely put it:

 

 

 

Personally on RS I don't care about age, they can be an immature 32 year old and piss me off or be an 8 year old and be mature enough.

 

 

 

He's perfectly right. Age doesn't matter- maturity is what matters. However, to be honest I prefer to converse with adults/older teenagers. In my school, it is nigh impossible to have an intelligent conversation with my classmates. Then again, my class only talks about stupid things, though I doubt that has anything to do with the fact that we're 13 year olds.

[Iantiger]

I wish I was as mature at 13 years old as you are Wenlok!

 

 

 

~Ian

[BloodWarrior6]

I was called an adult because I said having a girlfriend/boyfriend on runescape was sad lol.

[Pure_Role]

well im 19 and i keep getting called old. though i often get picked out and called brainy or in uni because of how i talk. Some kids are the worst but age shouldnt really matter, those ones who are bad mannered at level 89 are what i just call noobs

[DRAYN_HAVOC]

80 IQ points smarter than everyone else and your balls are bigger.

:XD: OMG DUDE HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

[Contrary]

Ever been pulled into a noob arguement, written English back at the antagonist then been told you're too old to play the game and labeled 'sad' by the noob(s)?

 

 

 

I'm only 17 and I've had loads of that, but my stance on the whole thing is simple:

 

Being older/mature you can still enjoy playing games like RuneScape, the only difference is you seem to be 80 IQ points smarter than everyone else and your balls are bigger.

 

 

 

I really don't like the increasing values being placed on things that, quite frankly, don't even matter (skin colour, musical genre preferences, age, nationality, political stance, etc.).

 

Anyone else ever faced moronic prejudice like this and what do you think of it? If you haven't, what's your stance on it anyway?

 

 

 

I agree, there are so many immature people that play runescape, most of my accounts are 'tanned' and everyone is like OMG you black freak... o.O or they're like... you're 17? wtf get a life... it's pretty gay. They can all go suck a [cabbage] and drown.

[bloody_scife]

Well people tell me I'm immature and not emotionally ready to play this game because I'm 11 (12 this Saturday \ ), and that I lied about my age and am not allowed to play Runescape. Well, when I started playing (May 2004) They didn't even ask for your age, so I didn't break any rules. I don't think anyone could guess I was only 11 unless I told them.

 

But luckily,here, people realise that age does not always determine your maturity.

[endo]

Some people complain your too young to play,others complain your too old to play so... :roll:

[p0nd3r4]

Some people complain your too young to play,others complain your too old to play so... :roll:

 

 

 

Haha, exactly. The only age you can play at, is the one the person flaming you at the time is!

[dwarfie76]

I'm 31 and the thing that really makes me chuckle is when I'm told I must have "no life" if I play computer games.

 

 

 

Having played computer games since I was eight (yes they had computers back then, you just had to make sure you put a new hampster on the treadmill occasionally), I can categorically state that there is no age beyond which playing computer games is not enjoyable. My 82 year-old grandfather plays online games (all right, it's scrabble, but still, he's eighty-freaking-two!)

 

 

 

As for the 'no-life' bit, I'm a happily married man with two adorable children (who both enjoy watching daddy's character carve up a dragon), I run my own software development company (nowhere near as cool as Jagex, I build database systems for manufacturing companies), Hit the gym five days a week, play guitar in a (sometimes) gigging 80s cover band, serve on two PTA committees and still have to put the garbage out on Tuesday nights.

 

 

 

I play computer games because I have a life (and need a break from it sometimes).