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Author:  joe15552 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 11:31 AM ]
Post subject:  How old is our audience?
I haven't seen anything like this lately, and since we are all writers trying to entertain each other, it would be nice to get a grasp on how old our audience is.
Author:  Silkelock [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 11:38 AM ]
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I was 19 when the game was released T_T
Author:  LibrisMortis_666 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 11:44 AM ]
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I am 17. >.>
Author:  joe15552 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 11:48 AM ]
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I stopped aging when the game was released. That's when I started practicing necromancy.
Author:  Opustus [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 12:52 PM ]
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Wow, I thought this game was for old embittered nerds who needed Amia to compensate their actual lives. Nice one, guess we just rejuvenated.
Author:  joe15552 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 13:02 PM ]
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Opustus wrote:
Wow, I thought this game was for old embittered nerds who needed Amia to compensate their actual lives. Nice one, guess we just rejuvenated.


I think the old people haven't gotten out of bed yet. There is no freakin way I am the oldest person on the server.
Author:  Analog Kid [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 14:22 PM ]
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I selected 35-39, but I'll be 40 soon :) I have more experience with D&D than NWN. The game may be 13 years old, but I've really only been playing it for about 7 years or so.
Author:  davis114 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 14:36 PM ]
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I'm 27. Started playing Amia when I was 19. This thread's a real trip!
Author:  joe15552 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 14:58 PM ]
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well, at this point I think it's safe to say, the majority of our audience is under 30. I honestly did not think that at all. I thought I was the average age at 38. Learn something new every day.
Author:  Naivatkal [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 15:01 PM ]
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Well there have only been 35 responses out of the possible 150+ players soooooo...
Author:  Kudark [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 15:18 PM ]
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joe15552 wrote:
well, at this point I think it's safe to say, the majority of our audience is under 30. I honestly did not think that at all. I thought I was the average age at 38. Learn something new every day.

Heh, the impatience of youth.

I would say it's safe to say, that there are very few older than me, that play on this server.
Author:  Magiros [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 15:43 PM ]
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I was 12 when the game was released... <.<'
Author:  nadzieja7 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 15:47 PM ]
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I don't even know, when the game was released. (Well I wouldn't if it wasn't stated in the pool) I never played single-player :roll:
Author:  Maverick00053 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 15:50 PM ]
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I was 14 when I started playing... those were dark times.
Author:  Bravo21 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 16:10 PM ]
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Fine, I voted... Now where is my senior discount?
Author:  Anatida [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 16:23 PM ]
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Bravo21 wrote:
Fine, I voted... Now where is my senior discount?
Author:  Silkelock [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 16:41 PM ]
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You're all a bunch of whippersnappers!
Author:  Uberuce [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 16:47 PM ]
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I am of 1978 vintage.
Author:  Liz [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 16:48 PM ]
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I have a deep, seething loathing for this thread, everyone in it, everyone reading it, everyone nearby it, and everyone.
Author:  Alaria- [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 17:20 PM ]
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Yay! I'm in the current majority!
Author:  TormakSaber [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 17:24 PM ]
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Well, I voted.

:mrgreen:
Author:  Raua [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 17:43 PM ]
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Dang, I forget how old this game is sometimes.
I was 6 when NWN was released. >.>
Author:  Revak [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 17:46 PM ]
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Started playing back in 2005. Fun times back in it's hayday. :D
Author:  Richard_Edmund [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 17:55 PM ]
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I had NwN since 2005, started actually playing online in 2007 and then joined Amia around 2010. I miss my old server, but alas, the administration were jerks, as much as I loved the crazy level of freedom and utter lack of any resemblance of a proper setting made for some fun times, I found the depth of Amia far better, if a bit more stressful at times.
Author:  Rigela [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 17:59 PM ]
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Now I feel young again and happy.

Contentment, it is good.
Author:  Dunecat [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 18:04 PM ]
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Since there is no "Already dead" option, one can't help but stick with our majority.
Author:  Lascer [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 18:14 PM ]
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The age thing, which I noticed in a more casual way a short time ago, surprised me as well. Until I thought about the fact that NWN is still in a category by itself, there's no other game currently that fills this niche.

Organizing the data like this shows that advertising the server would work, if the right venues were found. The population is not just holdouts from the Golden Age, new people still do find the game. It's just not getting much attention as a video game, being old and outdated, but instead as a platform for online D&D and cooperative storytelling.

I started on NWN in my mid twenties, when they were still releasing expansions. I just realized that happened the year after the main game's release and now I feel damn old. But I came to NWN from playing on MUDs, which is basically what NWN replaced. I found MUDs when I moved away from my gaming group and couldn't find another. It's so much more convenient and I've never looked back. D&D is still popular enough I'm absolutely sure other people would join us here if they knew it was an option.
Author:  Dead [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 18:25 PM ]
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I'm playing NWN since I was 13. Started playing on Amia when I was 19.
Author:  Alaria- [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 18:37 PM ]
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I'm no longer part of the majority. :( *Sniff*
Author:  AlannaMolov [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 18:56 PM ]
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Started playing Amia at 12. Now 24. Been on this fucking server for half my life, this is nuts.
Author:  SamTheGiantSlayer [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 19:03 PM ]
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LibrisMortis_666 wrote:
I am 17. >.>


Yay! I'm not the youngest. I've been RPing since I was around 10/11 on forums and through PnP but didn't start NWN till I was like 15. And Amia when I was 17. I'm 18 :D
Author:  KO-Master [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 19:14 PM ]
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Started playing NWN in 2007 when I was 13, but didn't really join Amia before 2009 I think, and got an account on the forum first in 2010. I am surprised it's still people here that'snot 18 yet though.
Author:  AzureLuna [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 19:33 PM ]
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AlannaMolov wrote:
Started playing Amia at 12. Now 24. Been on this fucking server for half my life, this is nuts.



So... Amia was your mid-life crisis, huh?
Author:  LibrisMortis_666 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 19:41 PM ]
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AzureLuna wrote:
AlannaMolov wrote:
Started playing Amia at 12. Now 24. Been on this fucking server for half my life, this is nuts.



So... Amia was your mid-life crisis, huh?


Is it? D:
Author:  davis114 [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 19:44 PM ]
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Nah. Gorthod was her midlife crisis. :twisted:
Author:  The Great Equalizer [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 20:54 PM ]
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Amia itself will be 11 years old as of this December 14th for any interested. Still waiting to see the day when the server is older than the youngest players.
Author:  Krin [ Thu, Jul 09 2015, 21:33 PM ]
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Author:  AlannaMolov [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 0:05 AM ]
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LibrisMortis_666 wrote:
AzureLuna wrote:
AlannaMolov wrote:
Started playing Amia at 12. Now 24. Been on this fucking server for half my life, this is nuts.



So... Amia was your mid-life crisis, huh?


Is it? D:


davis114 wrote:
Nah. Gorthod was her midlife crisis. :twisted:


all pretty much true.
Author:  Grymia [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 2:35 AM ]
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More reminders i'm an old man. >.<; XD
Author:  Estara [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 11:01 AM ]
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AlannaMolov wrote:
Started playing Amia at 12. Now 24. Been on this fucking server for half my life, this is nuts.



Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there
in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.

And then things start to happen,
don't worry. Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll start happening too.

OH!
THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

...

Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.

I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.

You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You'll be left in a Lurch.

You'll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then,
that you'll be in a Slump.

And when you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...

...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or the waiting around for a Yes or No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for the wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.

NO!!-

...

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don't
Because, sometimes they won't.

I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.

...

But on you will go
though the weather be foul.
On you will go
though your enemies prowl.
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl.
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.

...

So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never foget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
You're off the Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!

- The loveliest Dr. Seuss (on when we're getting too old for things)

...Wait did I just get too real? Sorry. 8) (Talking about how long we've been playing in this place always makes me think of Dr. Seuss? Is there ever a graduation date that doesn't mean we have to leave!?!!? Some of us have definitely graduated at this point... Even if we're still here.......... Right?) <3
Author:  Xenos [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 11:19 AM ]
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I'm oddly concerned with what happens to us after 30 that the numbers drop so drastically. Amia induced early onset death syndrome?
Author:  joe15552 [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 12:07 PM ]
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Xenos wrote:
I'm oddly concerned with what happens to us after 30 that the numbers drop so drastically. Amia induced early onset death syndrome?


Some people call it "growing up," I call it lack of necromancy.
Author:  Naivatkal [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 13:38 PM ]
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I call it 'quitter syndrome'.
Author:  Kudark [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 14:32 PM ]
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I'm just glad this was done now, and not in seven months from now, or I would be alone in the next higher age bracket. But, isn't it good to be in the top one percent?
Author:  Xaviera [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 14:34 PM ]
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joe15552 wrote:
Xenos wrote:
I'm oddly concerned with what happens to us after 30 that the numbers drop so drastically. Amia induced early onset death syndrome?
Some people call it "growing up," I call it lack of necromancy.
Naivatkal wrote:
I call it 'quitter syndrome'.
I may not have been in-game in several months, but I still haven't quit. Yet.

EDIT: Been here over nine years already.
Author:  WrathOfTheNorth [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 16:47 PM ]
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Uberuce wrote:
I am of 1978 vintage.


That is some nice steak when your time comes up!
Author:  A Mystery Clock [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 16:57 PM ]
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I was eleven when the game was published. I've started playing it right away, and never looked back, jumping from long days of Baldur's Gate to long days of Neverwinter. I love this game so much I've started playing it in another language.

/Feels
Author:  blackvswhite [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 17:17 PM ]
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Yeah... Bought this game in store on release... At 10 years old... Fifty bucks well spent I'd say. Thx mom.
Author:  Blue Moon [ Fri, Jul 10 2015, 23:28 PM ]
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Alright, who are the two Denny's senior menu folks?
Author:  Liz [ Sat, Jul 11 2015, 0:32 AM ]
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I have to say, this is pretty much exactly the distribution I'd have expected: almost everyone between 18 and 30, with a slow tail on the right side of the bell curve, and two goofs trolling the forums. :)
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