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The average gamer is 35, overweight, and more likely to be depressed
JestorRodo
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Is this you then the asswipes at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have you pegged.
Read: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/study-games-are-depressing-or-are-they-/1346074
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I think thats a load of bull. No way average gamers are 35, I would say 13 or 18. Or even between those ages. I doubt the video games are making them depressed, but more like frustrated from not accomplishing a goal they wanted in a game. Other than that they should be more than mature enough to understand their priorities. I'm 16 years of age and games only frustrate me that moment that I'm playing. Then when I'm off, it's back to normal life o.o
-Jurzu
You haven't been paying much attention if you think there aren't a lot of older gamers around. Many multi-game guilds don't even allow members under 18.
Same for me. I can get extremely pissed off when I fail at something in a game, but as soon as I close the game, all the frustration and anger seem to go away somehow. In the end, it's all a bunch of meaningless pixels.
I'm 29 btw, and most of my gaming friends are 25 or above.
If you stand VERY still, and close your eyes, after a minute you can actually FEEL the universe revolving around PvP.
I never understood how being a gamer is supposed to make you overweight , you gain weight from eating stuff not from having one hand on a keyboard and the other on a mouse..? What a bunch of bull
Who cares. Totally meaningless.
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im to lazy too use grammar or punctuation good
The study doesn't say that being a gamer makes you overweight.
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39, slim and good looking, not depressed at all
me ftw
That story is such bunk. Now seriously, where are my damn twinkies and Xanax?
I've got 10 people off the top of my head right now that I know game with me and out of those 10 no more then 2 are overweight. We're all in our mid 20's and most of us are at or very near our recommended body mass index. All of us have jobs, we do other stuff besides games and none of us are depressed. Funny how nobody asked me to participate in any survey yet I can be pigeonholled into some kind of "majority".
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Me - 44, fit and work out at least 4-5 days a week, wonderful wife and two little boys. not depressed at all.
Though I will say I have seen my fair share of the stereo type herein at places like Gen Con. Sadly, some of my close friends fit this mold too.
1. I am not surprised the average age of gamers is 35. I know gamer's have been given the stereotype of being immature and childish, but that stereotype has been around since gaming became popular 20 years ago and those children are now adults and still playing games.
2. Eating doesn't make you fat. Playing video games for 15 hours a day and not living an active lifestyle makes you fat.
3. You've got to be pretty egotistical to call yourself good looking, and even lamer if you think anyone on this site gives a crap.
Pretty spot-on, if you ask me. Biggest MMO nerd I know, 36 years old. overweight, horrible hygiene, lives with his gamer roommate and his two cats. Doesn't have a girlfriend, doesn't date, doesn't know how to even have a casual conversation without bringing up a game. Will wax nostalgic about SWG before it was "ruined", blather on for hours about all the toons he bought in EQ2, and how he's quitting WoW...again...for the nth time. He's gotten so mad gaming before, that he's told me he's punched his LCD monitor off his desk, and put his fist through the drywall in his apartment. He's been late for work because he was raiding, he's missed paying bills from buying gold. He's had to ask his parents for money to renew his car tags...because he blew all his money on EQ2 characters. He's pretty much the joke of our workplace, and he's too oblivious to all of it, since he's just in his own little fantasy world. I think MMOs are the escape he has from being a complete loser in real life.
He's the reason that playing MMOs is one of my biggest secrets, and why I won't tell many people that I do. He's also why I barely play anymore, or if I do, it's in extremely limited amounts of time. The idea of ending up like him...no thanks.
Katsma is Lithuanian for 'he who drinks used douche fluid'.
18, overweight, and jolly as shit with plenty of friends, can start a normal conversation with people, all that good stuff.
Some people are just too self-conscious and that's why they become depressed if they're overweight. That's their own fault.
I'm depressed and overweight (6ft0, 192lbs), but only a little bit on both accounts.
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im to lazy too use grammar or punctuation good
Someone doesn't understand statistics.
27 perfectly healthy, slim, beautiful wife and baby and been gaming since pitfall. I would consider myself hardcore when I picked up FF1 for NES and pulled multiple all nighters at the age of 9 with a friend. We would hide under the bed and take turns grinding out our characters. Was awesome growing up in this generation and seeing how far games have come.
Oh and me and gaming friends are the happiest jolly bastards in the world. There isn't a depressing bone in our body.
Funny how often kids are surprised to learn that many of their fellow gamers are almost as old as their parents
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
Ummmm. Uh, Errrrr....Uhmmmm....
Aaaahhhhh, uhmmm. Uhhhhh,...
You're 16?
Ummmm. Uh, Errrrr....Uhmmmm....
13 to 18, really?
Damn, we were gaming before you were even born. That's fun.
16? Ummmm. Uh, Errrrr....Uhmmmm....
Right back to normal life.
Played (more than a month): SWG, Second Life, Tabula Rasa, Lineage 2, Everquest 2, EvE, MxO, Ryzom.
Tried: WoW, Shadowbane, Anarchy Online, Everquest, WWII Online, Planetside
Beta: Lotro, Tabula Rasa, WAR.
"The average gamer, who took the survey, is 35, overweight, and more likely to be depressed"
Not that surprising.
I'm sure the younger crowd are less likely to take surveys.
The average person is now overweight apparently (according to the mind-f**kers who seem to want everyone to be constantly worried and depressed about everything).
Depressed people are probably a bit more likely to take surveys as they'll be more of them at home with spare time.
Someone doesn't understand statistics.
Most people in this thread don't understand statistics.
By the way, this article misses it, but if I recall correctly from a different article, the study says that the average ADULT gamer is 35, which obviously would count anyone under 18 out of the average calcuation.
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No the average person is now overweight because portion size has doubled in the last 30 years.
The problem is that we keep telling people it's okay to be overweight, and not to worry about what other people think. Too bad not worrying can lead to major health problems down the road.
Oh and you have a major misconception of depression if you think they sit at home on their computer all the time.
The article is being read incorrectly.
They found what is called a correlation and are trying to extrapolate meaning from that.
Just like the old argument about violent video games. Do they make the kids violent, or are violent kids attracted to them?
I'll be thirty five in oct and I'm very healthy, slim certainly not overweight or depressed but I would not doubt there is a nice size population of gamers who fit this "mold" And I truly only take that from my own experiences in mmo's, I can recall countless players throughout my gaming history who fit this "mold" but I have met more who wouldn't because of the "casual" nature of what is truly the new population of mmos. I think if anything that statement is just the "old" look of the "average" gamer because in the day's before EQ1 and up until wow mmo's were new and all in their own way "hardcore" and not designed for casual players as they are now.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
37 years old. Check.
Overweight. Check.
Depressed. Check.
Dang....
Well, at least I have a job and live on my own. I've had plenty of g/f's in my life and even have a daughter though not married to her mother. I guess gaming is much like smoking pot...both make you realize that most of the crap the people of this world consider important really is not. The older one gets, the more they want to be left alone. This is why gaming is soooo appealing (and why Second Life in particular is loaded with age 30+ residents)!!