Hidden Ages

pearljam668

I don't care what you say people with hidden ages are more likely to be young kids, say about 12 years old or so.

Tamalan

or old/older players who dont have the backbone to admit they still play games :P

Blurr

I haven't even bothered to look up anyones age.

Why would it be important?

I'm sure I knew more about the world when I was 12 years old than some of the people on this board do know, so I'm sure some of the younger members could easily be mature enough mentally for whatever bar you seem to want to set for them.

I suppose it's the idea that youth generally means inexperience, which is sort of true. I mean if someone's only 14 now, they may not have been playing MMOs for 10 years like I have, but that doesn't mean they can't contribute to a conversation about the Genre.

Xexima

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Originally posted by Blurr

I haven't even bothered to look up anyones age.
Why would it be important?
I'm sure I knew more about the world when I was 12 years old than some of the people on this board do know, so I'm sure some of the younger members could easily be mature enough mentally for whatever bar you seem to want to set for them.
I suppose it's the idea that youth generally means inexperience, which is sort of true. I mean if someone's only 14 now, they may not have been playing MMOs for 10 years like I have, but that doesn't mean they can't contribute to a conversation about the Genre.

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Aelfinn

Does it matter? its far too easy to change your listed age to whatever you want it to be, I just did myself a second ago after reading the topic. No I am definately not 99 years of age.

Boozbaz

A lot of people online lie about their age anyhow. I started a guild with someone in guild wars that was 26 on here, then found out he was only 16.

Malachi1975

Meh, age is just a number. Some people like a lot of anonymnity when online. I, for one, don't really care how much people know about me, so I gladly (not proudly :P) let people know my age. I really try not to get caught up in people's ages too much. About the only times I bother to look up someone's name is when I make a reference to something from the 80's and I find people that have NO idea what I am talking about. Worse yet, sometimes I find people my own age or older that still haven't heard of the pop-culture reference and I wonder what rock they lived under :P

But other than all that jazz what really is wrong with people who want to hide their age? With the typical biased mindset of a lot of people I wouldn't blame a "young" person, who had something relevant to say, that decided to opt out on announcing their age. Maybe they just want to be heard and judged a little more seriously on merit rather than their age. I wouldn't be quick to assume that just because someone acts immature that they are a "12" year old. Hell, I know plenty of 40 year old's that quickly need their speaking and breeding licenses revoked.