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No…the irony is it is actually the complete reverse. The oldies were the ones who were playing Space Invaders and Brick Out in the 70s. They are the ones who were playing Donkey Kong in the 80s and Doom in the 90s. Oh, sure, media loves to roll out the old granny who has never seen a computer in her life and last used a phone when they were wind up things where you called the operator…but by and large the oldies are the generation who not only played but also invented most of the PvP or combat games in existence. You seriously think that generation…which has been playing video games twice as long as many of the young-uns have been alive… can’t cope with Eve ?
No, its the kids who were mollycoddled in bubble wrap and given participation awards and who demand trigger warnings on absolutely everything who can’t cope with the sheer horror of actually having to compete with anyone without a Health & Safety Executive and paramedic team on standby.
Things will actually get worse, not better, as the oldies die off.
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I’ve explained the premise of EVE to my mother born in the 1960s and her response was “I don’t even know why you’d play it if you could lose everything.” 
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My mom’s response was to laugh at the pitiful farmers.
You explained miners to her? Good God that’s boring. I told mine about B-R5RB.
I’m not a carebear.
Not a good storyteller either, I’d wager.
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Doubt.
We know.
While that generation invented video games, the proportion of people within the generation involved in the video game market as both producers and consumers was exceptionally small. Until roughly 2005, gaming was a very niche industry, and until the mid 90s, it was basically considered part of the toy industry, and adults who were into gaming were effectively ostracized in society.
Gaming might’ve become mainstream over the past two decades, but not to the people who hold the vast majority of the world’s wealth and political power today. That’s why the 76-year-olds writing the laws are writing those laws.
Interesting you say that, as zoomers (and younger millennials like me) are the biggest consumers of competitive multiplayer video games such as open-world MMOs and survival games. Example (Google for many others):
Additionally, some studies have been conducted on player age group behavior that confirms a significant statistical bias toward younger gamers being much more open to the idea of inter-player competition:
Yes but then I seem to recall reading that 96% of the people who play Eve are men. Which is sort of confirmed by the fact that in my entire time playing Eve I’ve only ever heard one female voice on comms…out of maybe several hundred. There ought to be more women playing.
Simply not true. Yet another urban myth of the sort you love to espouse. Computer games were widespread even in the 80s. Everyone I knew was playing them…friends, colleagues at work, etc. Nobody was being ‘ostracised’ for playing them…that claim is simply pure nonsense. Why would anyone be ostracised for playing Space Invaders in the 70s when every single pub had a Space Invaders machine and there were even queues to play on them !
I was actually alive then and thus have first hand experience…rather than urban myths of later years.
I can even recall playing Doom on the LAN at work when it cane out in the early 90s…and that widely spread to almost everyone playing it, and one guy almost got the sack for that. Many people were internet savvy even back then, and online games were also a big thing. Things like the WON network ( which turned into Steam via Sierra ) often had 200,000 players online and multiple servers including private ones. I myself often spent hours playing Team Fortress on servers that were packed with people.
Well that’s no great surprise as there are actually more people alive in the younger age groups ! But heck, don’t let facts get in the way of a good rant.
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Just to make the point…I recall these being widespread in local pubs in the 70s. Yup, its a beer table where people would sit and play Space Invaders. So computer games were not a case of little Jimmy sitting in Mom’s basement with a copy of Donkey Kong and being ‘ostracised’ and laughed at if he told his friends. Little Jimmy was down the pub playing this sort of thing with his friends…
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Apparently not (especially in terms of the PC games part):
It might feel widespread to you because your personal social circle was heavily involved, but that doesn’t represent society as a whole.
Also not true. The demographics are fairly even:
And this is just for the US. In countries like Japan, China, and many places in Europe, where gaming is also very prevalent, there’s a very intense drop in the ratio of young to old people:
Facts and basepills.
Lol…its tiresome having anyone tell me what life was like when I was alive and experiencing it and they weren’t. There’s just a complete disconnect between the reality and all the myths and legends and supposedly meaningful graphs.
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I wasn’t around in that millennia, sorry old timer.
You missed the best time to be alive…which I doubt will be repeated.
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Sounds like someone has a case of the good ol days.
It doesn’t matter what life was like for a single person in a discussion about statistics for demographics of billions. I’m very happy that there was Donkey Kong in your pub, but you’re just one person, and don’t represent the whole, no matter how relevant and important you believe your own personal experience to be.
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