i've been 10 years old when classic launched. It has to be past 4 years for me to meet classic. And yeah...i've turned to 25 on the last week.
Reading all the people in their 20-something on reddit that want to have that "OG vanilla player sheen" and saying "I was 11 years old the first time" makes you think WoW was ever a game mainly populated by kids..
... which all now have lives, girlfriends or families, are CEOs 
and don't have so much time (as if being a kid doesn't impose a slew of restrictions on your time with parents + school etc)
when in reality WoW was always primarily for the "young adult" demographic.
(that's not to say there weren't outliers on both ends of the Bell curve)
Both
- The Deadalus Project from 2005
- Statista - Distribution by Age Groups from 2013
From the survey data, the average age of the WoW player is 28.3 (SD = 8.4). 84% of players are male. 16% are female.
Female players are significantly older (M = 32.5, SD = 10.0) than male players (M = 28.0, SD = 8.4).
On average, they spend 22.7 (SD = 14.1) hours per week playing WoW. There are no gender differences in hours played per week.
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Im 36 years old, so back when i played vanilla i was 22 years old. It was great, i remember most of the players i played with back then where around the same age as me +- a few years.
I was 11 years old as said and I had I think a level 58 mage, 52 Hunter and 48 Warrior if I remember correctly when TBC released. Despite my age and not being in any raid, I still miss the 3-4 hour long instances. Forming the group, travelling there and clearing it including "My mother says dinner is ready, can we pause for 15 minutes?". That's Vanilla for me. The community, the social aspects.Roadblock wrote: ↑5 years agoReading all the people in their 20-something on reddit that want to have that "OG vanilla player sheen" and saying "I was 11 years old the first time" makes you think WoW was ever a game mainly populated by kids..
... which all now have lives, girlfriends or families, are CEOs
when in reality WoW was always primarily for the "young adult" demographic.
(that's not to say there weren't outliers on both ends of the Bell curve)
Bothshow the most populated age group to be squarely in the mid-twenties demographic.
- The Deadalus Project from 2005
- Statista - Distribution by Age Groups from 2013
From the survey data, the average age of the WoW player is 28.3 (SD = 8.4). 84% of players are male. 16% are female.
Female players are significantly older (M = 32.5, SD = 10.0) than male players (M = 28.0, SD = 8.4).
On average, they spend 22.7 (SD = 14.1) hours per week playing WoW. There are no gender differences in hours played per week.
As am I, Didn't expect to see how many older people are going to be playing. Usually us young folks lead the games.
