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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 5725670" data-attributes="member: 4348">Broken Base Lookback #5: Getting Older Posted Today at 08:03 PM by GreyLord This will probably be my last of this set of articles in relation to a broken base. This one also is perhaps what strikes closest to home for me, as well as what ultimately I see as the BIGGEST divider of the gaming base...that of getting older.It's not getting older per se...but all the responsibilities that rise up that take us away from gaming with kids, jobs, and other items.In fact, it's a miracle that I am still gaming looking at how it all wraps up. Amongst all the kids I knew that gamed when I was young...I know VERY few that actually still play the game.I looked for articles in relation to this, but you know what...I really had a hard time finding one that addressed this specifically. The closest I found that sort of addressed this actually dealt with younger gamers (comparatively, these are the older ones who played Video games of the 80s and such) who played video games and their take on video games now.The article is full of pretty vulgur language, so be forewarned...and because of this I won't be posting most of the article here. I will post the relavant paragraphs, some a tad edited...<a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games/" target="_blank">5 Ways to Tell You're Getting Too Old for Video Games | Cracked.com</a>I actually don't think you outgrow RPGs in many ways, but I do think that sometimes you may cease to be a game's target audience...not all, but some of them out there probably are focusing on those younger than you (though you may have a larger disposable income than those young people...which in some ways is irony).This I think is the heart of why so many fall away from Roleplaying games as they get older. It's not that they don't like them, but time constraints come in as well as getting with others of your age. I think that's why many sometimes go to hobby shops, gamestores, or conventions to find people to game with. Some get lucky and hunt them down at work or other places like me...but I see many who game look elsewhere.So, shorter then the others, and talks about the newer phenomena of video games rather than RPGs, but I think much of it is relavant. There are a TON of Roleplayers out there that no longer play. I think the number of ex-roleplayers probably outweigh the number of active roleplayers on a magnitude that many may not even be able to guess.Why do they stop being a part of the hobby?When you only have so many hours in the day and so many things to do...you have to set priorities, and for many the priority to play an RPG is far down on the list, especially considering the effort and time it may take in relation to something else you could be doing.And hence in truth I think if you could find someway to fix this broken base (good luck, I think people have been looking for that repair to aging and not having enough time for the hobbies you want to do for thousands of years and no one has really found a solution yet) you may have an incredibly HUGE influx of gamers.</blockquote>

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