i'm 40.

i know, i hear it all the time. but i love the game :D

I suspect the average age is higher than most think. I beleive that younger players are more likely to state there age. Similar to how some are proud of vanquishing a higher level mob, like i completed that quest at level XX.

Whereas, elders(I'm using the term loosely) are more likely not to admit to their contemperaries. Yes i love playing that teen game, WOW. That sentiment is expressed above. Some posters of this topic neglected to state there age, could it be they are older?

I enjoy analyzying. I found the average to be 27.2 years old for the 38 who posted an age . I also averaged the 34 entries of other known players age, someone other than poster. It was 32 years old. hhmmm, seems to support my belief.

The reasons i beleive it is higher are because

1) Commiting to a payment plan, having a credit card/money should be easier the older you get.

2)Some older people have more spare time, even more than school kids.

3)I miss Gary Gygax, Some of us old farts were playing a game called Dungeons and Dragons, before Al Gore invented the Internet.

The AD&D crowd, of which I'm a member, actually used books, charts, dice, etc. to essentially play the same game. We also have the first two advantages, time and money.

I beleive the longest standing members of WOW, are probably the older members too.

I am 47.

AD&D. Ah! Those were the days ...

The days where you had to get everybody in the same house at the same time to play for hours at a time.
Where the Dungeon Master had a hell of a job of steering everybody around.
Where you had to draw your own map.
You had to roll for everything.
Thieves opened doors and chests.
Warriors fought the bosses.
Where you had to think

I remember a particular dungeon in which the whole party had been shrunk, and we had to escape via the plumbing. At some point we had to work out how to cross a puddle by picking up a walnut shell, some string and old cloth lying around to make a boat to cross it. At some other point we had to use a broken lens and a ray of sun to burn that thornbush in the way ...

No handy Thottbot database in those days, so we had to actually find the answers ourselves.
Very satisfying.

Um... I seem to have gone off topic here. Although I guess I gave my general age away when I admitted playing AD&D :-)