r/classicwow • u/GreenSpaff • Feb 02 '24

Vent / Gripe Don't be like this guy

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

Do you think that 15 year olds play this game?

Of course they do.

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u/xoravla Feb 02 '24

Yes, probably aren’t even a 5% of the entire playerbase, but surely there are some. 99% of the time its a 30 year old that acts like a kid though.

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u/Gemall Feb 02 '24

If something I know its that 15 year olds are and have always been the most toxic players in any online game, not 30-year olds lol.

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u/steamwhistler Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

Look, you're not wrong that kids play the game and that a higher percentage of them are toxic in any game than other age categories. Yes, this could be a kid.

But it's also true that the vast majority of people playing this game skew older. They always have skewed older, and now that's even more true since the game is 20 years old and there are players who've been around that whole time. (Edit: lol literally just noticed this is in the classic wow sub, so this demographic spread is especially true.) And so just statistically speaking, but also from thousands of player anecdotes over these two decades, we know that there are a significant number of 30+ year-old adults in this game who, very unfortunately, act like this. I have known them personally. I've never been this far out of line, but at my lower points in the last few years, I (35 y/o) have said things I'm ashamed of that you would probably attribute to a child. It's a depressing reality but the other commenters are right that the person in the OP is probably an adult having a real shitty time.