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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8183410" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think that's really true, though, re: adolescent males. I've been playing MMOs since 1999, and frankly, a lot of MMO players, outside the first few years of WoW, most players have been kind of geriatric, like, 30+, 40+ even 50+. WoW temporarily made that dip, with a massive onslaught of younger players (mostly late teens and early twenties), but it's 16 years later, and now WoW's population looks much more like how most MMOs did in say, 2002. Old.Big tough races and short annoying ones are both popular with teenage boys. Like, any given male gnome in WoW, it's 50/50 that that's some jerkass 14-year-old dude or a 40-something bore. Likewise with a Tauren, it's like 50/50 between a really solid and sensible 30+ year old guy, and a 20-ish but still hormonal maniac.The actually most reliable teenage jerk-face determinant in WoW is &quot;Are they playing a Human Male Warrior with facial hair&quot;. Bonus points if it's facial hair and a shaved head. If you see a Human Male Warrior with a beard or worse, a terrible mustache, and a shaved head, or really short hair, there is at least an 80% chance (on EU WoW at least) that that is a very angry young man.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8183410, member: 18"] I don't think that's really true, though, re: adolescent males. I've been playing MMOs since 1999, and frankly, a lot of MMO players, outside the first few years of WoW, most players have been kind of geriatric, like, 30+, 40+ even 50+. WoW temporarily made that dip, with a massive onslaught of younger players (mostly late teens and early twenties), but it's 16 years later, and now WoW's population looks much more like how most MMOs did in say, 2002. Old. Big tough races and short annoying ones are both popular with teenage boys. Like, any given male gnome in WoW, it's 50/50 that that's some jerkass 14-year-old dude or a 40-something bore. Likewise with a Tauren, it's like 50/50 between a really solid and sensible 30+ year old guy, and a 20-ish but still hormonal maniac. The actually most reliable teenage jerk-face determinant in WoW is "Are they playing a Human Male Warrior with facial hair". Bonus points if it's facial hair and a shaved head. If you see a Human Male Warrior with a beard or worse, a terrible mustache, and a shaved head, or really short hair, there is at least an 80% chance (on EU WoW at least) that that is a very angry young man. [/QUOTE]

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