How many of your friends actually play games?

Originally Posted by Zloth
basically, once they have kids, it's Game Over. Heck, it's hard to even keep them as friends once that happens.

Right, when you live your life the way your parents did and all "normal" people do.

None of my friends of my age (45) plays games at all. I have younger friends, they do, but mostly online stuff live WoW or Wold of Tanks, shooters, sometimes Skyrim and Witcher, some even played Gothic, but no one does Crpgs :-(

According to people around me, games aren't for adults, especially for female adults.

Originally Posted by purpleblob
According to people around me, games aren't for adults, especially for female adults.

Damn slap those friends for me.

As for me most of my friends have quit gaming once they had a family as well. Most of them cite lack of time due to the wife complaining, kids, and work interfering.

Now as for me I will die playing games.

The family DOES have a big impact, when I was a bachelor I probably played about 40 hours every week, now the average is probably closer to 4, if even that.

Of my 2 friends, one plays WoW exclusively, the other phone games only. At work there are a couple of guys with PS4. One plays all the usual multiplayer crap (CoD, GTA, Battlefield, etrc.) and the other used to play RPGs (he has played every Final Fantasy) but switched to multiplayer rubbish (Diablo III), until I showed him the error of his ways and now he is playing Witcher III, with DAI lined up next.

Hardly any of my friends play. I'm seen as odd, being an adult female in my 50s. It was even suggested I get myself a hobby. I've been a gamer for three decades and can't imagine what hobby would take it's place. My husband plays a bit, Kerbal Space Program mainly though is currently immersed in DOS. He wasn't a gamer until I suggested he just try Baldurs Gate 1 for a few minutes. I've made real life friends through WoW but few of those play anything else though I've actually given up WoW after 12 years. My godson plays some of the same games of me but apparently not on grandma mode :-) though I tease back, at his age I didn't google walkthroughs I stayed up all night and searched every last damn pixel.

All my friends play games or wish they had the time for it

Although they don´t play the same games as i do most of the time

Originally Posted by Qayto
Hardly any of my friends play. I'm seen as odd, being an adult female in my 50s. It was even suggested I get myself a hobby. I've been a gamer for three decades and can't imagine what hobby would take it's place. My husband plays a bit, Kerbal Space Program mainly though is currently immersed in DOS. He wasn't a gamer until I suggested he just try Baldurs Gate 1 for a few minutes. I've made real life friends through WoW but few of those play anything else though I've actually given up WoW after 12 years. My godson plays some of the same games of me but apparently not on grandma mode :-) though I tease back, at his age I didn't google walkthroughs I stayed up all night and searched every last damn pixel.

How in the heck is gaming not a hobby? I guess when they say that it's code for gender stereotyped hobbies like knitting or gardening or something like that?

Few of my co-workers play videogames, although not rpgs I think. More arcade stuff like sports. Some of my old friends played videogames, but we don't talk about videogames anymore or play them together. And to be frank we see eachother quite rarely nowdays. When we do, we have fun times, but we don't talk about videogames anymore.

I used to have some online buddies as well (outside watch), but life has been too hectic to stay in touch. Last decade or so, I've mostly played single player games, so my online social circle has shurnk a lot from what it used to be. RPGWatch is the only place where I disscuss about games in fact. I do follow some game related forums, but I rarely post anything there.

I have friends and co-workers at my age or younger who play video games, but not nearly the amount of time I play them.

My best friend plays games all the time. He loves Everquest and still plays it to this day. On occasion, he will try a game that I tell him about, but he isn't really into hardcore/single player rpgs.

But sure, in general, there is still a bit of the feeling that you must be weird or geeky or autistic or whatever to play games as an adult. That feeling is still out there to a degree, but not nearly like it used to be. Gaming has become so popular nowadays, like phone games and video games, and all that, that gaming has come to be a much more accepted hobby, and has gone mainstream, even among adults.

That said, I'm sure there are still places and industries where people probably don't want to talk about that they are a gamer in certain workplace settings, for fear of being looked upon as strange or something.

More broadly speaking, I would ask the question, Why does it matter? Why do you care, in other words, what other people think of your hobby? Eventually you get to a point where what other people think isn't so very important anymore, like it was when you were young. I don't care what other people think about my hobbies, my politics, and so on. Why should I? I don't need the stress, lol

I guess almost all of them are playing.

Most of my friends would like to game but have other interests or obligations that take precedence. At work though, there is a large group of young engineers and other professionals and almost all of them game, twitch, stream, etc. They still call me to fix their computer problems though, which is mildly amusing.

All my male friends play games, but only about half of my female friends. The female friends who play are all younger that myself and my core group of friends.

My wife games, but nothing crpg related. She likes hidden object games and putting together puzzles. She also loves all the free games that emulate a casino. Fortunately, she finds real casinos to be a total ripoff, but when the money is fake, she's all in