Ah yes... the defacto graph of any and all age-related, demographical surveys in existence...

...who would have thought?

:-)

Right, this and the group bins are too large. I'd say 5 year spread would be interesting. I'd really like to see some unbiased demographics of WoW. My sense is that about 90% of players are male, and at least half are teenagers. The real die-hards tend to be older, ie late twenties to early thirties. I imagine for casuals the age spread is very large, while for diehard BT raiders its significantly smaller.

You might think you're along, but there are more of us than you might seem to think. I'm 17 and I like to read up on wow for multiple reasons.

A) I enjoy reading blogs to begin with. Tech blogs, gaming blogs, political blogs, whatever. This site combines two of my favorite internet pastimes together, so why shouldn't I subscribe?

B) I want to be good at the classes I play, and generally be knowledgeable about the game. I remember an instance group I was in when I was leveling my holy priest (my level 61 main and first character on US realms; I started on EU just before 2.2 hit and my current US account was started just before 2.4) where just nothing could go right. It was me, a druid tank, a hunter, a rogue, and an enh shaman wiping our way through mara (or ST, or something).

Hilariously enough, the hunter was the only other person in the group who understood what he was doing and what was going on. Turns out he was leveling his 4th character and was in one of the higher end raiding guilds on my realm, with his main working his way through Black Temple. He and I spent the whole time giving advice to the other three players, and all five of us ended up being better in the end (those three actually took the advice, I practiced quick healing and he practiced pet offtanking and trapping). Afterwards he asked me how many 70s I had and he was shocked when I said that was my main and highest character. I have this website, wowhead comments, and the occasional thread on the Elitist Jerks forums to thank for that.

C) Comments sections on blogs are always quite fun. I like reading through them to get the viewpoint of multiple people and get different perspectives on various topics, so I don't get shoved into one way of thinking. It's another reason I like this website as a whole: there are 20 WoW Insider bloggers, so you know you don't get one person telling you the same thing over and over again.

So we exist, you just have to look for us. Just like there are a bunch of plenty mature people in our age range, but that's another comment entirely.

I agree with you Spoonmaster - a WoW Insider poll probably won't catch all the 12-year-old and similarly mentally-aged noobs. But I'm a 16-year-old girl gamer, so I guess I'm breaking a few of the stereotypes anyway.

I'm with Hurode, I'm 16 but I generally like reading blogs and reading up about stuff I'm into.

A few people online have been surprised when I tell them my age, and have told me I'm mature for my age. Although naturally that goes to pot when I'm with my mates, teenage boys can't help being immature sometimes ;D

Is this more of a poll to see who reads your blog? It seems like it, even if it was not your original intention.

Not at all, I just never had the idea :D

Damn it, replied to the wrong person :(

@Hurode - It's hell getting old, isn't it? :)

Wow. When I turn 18, I'm going to wake up and shout "DING!" as my first way to celebrate.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

If nothing else, the players who roll on stuff they can't even equip in instances because "I haven't gotten anything yet" all seem to be invariably 13-14 in my experiences with them. :P

A lot of the more subtly-immature people (people who can't take criticism, etc) definitely are usually older than that, though.