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Topic	Competitive Gaming - A great equalizer? (About Racial Diversity)
PikachuMaxwell 05/01/17 7:23:41 PM #7:	Lorenzo_2003 posted... I don't think the age groups are diverse, if we are speaking of competitive (i.e. tournament style with prize money) gaming. Yes, you get some players who are fairly young, but the core group of competitive gamers is probably between 15-25. I've been to tourneys where sponsors discouraged tourney organizers from registering pre-teens because of the ESRB ratings on games like Mortal Kombat and Call of Duty, for example. Of course, we also hardly ever see anyone in the mid-thirties and up. I'm not talking about old people winning tourneys, I mean just registering and playing. Gaming companies do not market or design games for older demographics. We could have a discussion on the lack of disabled competitors as well. Off the top of my head, I can only think of BrolyLegs who plays Street Fighter with his mouth. Video games almost completely exclude disabled players from competitive gaming. You make interesting points about age and disability. Although regarding age, maybe mental ability (such as judgement and reflexes) has something to do with it? Younger players minds' are still developing, and older players may not have fast reflexes as they had in their prime. This is just speculation, though. But the demographics argument makes sense. --- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U mains: http://i.imgur.com/vLFcGb2.png Nintendo Network Name: JohnJohn <cite>PikachuMaxwell posted [p:878285672] in Competitiv... [t:75300824]...</cite> <quote><cite>Lorenzo_2003 posted...</cite> <quote>I don't think the age groups are diverse, if we are speaking of competitive (i.e. tournament style with prize money) gaming. Yes, you get some players who are fairly young, but the core group of competitive gamers is probably between 15-25. I've been to tourneys where sponsors discouraged tourney organizers from registering pre-teens because of the ESRB ratings on games like Mortal Kombat and Call of Duty, for example. Of course, we also hardly ever see anyone in the mid-thirties and up. I'm not talking about old people winning tourneys, I mean just registering and playing. Gaming companies do not market or design games for older demographics. We could have a discussion on the lack of disabled competitors as well. Off the top of my head, I can only think of BrolyLegs who plays Street Fighter with his mouth. Video games almost completely exclude disabled players from competitive gaming.</quote> You make interesting points about age and disability. Although regarding age, maybe mental ability (such as judgement and reflexes) has something to do with it? Younger players minds' are still developing, and older players may not have fast reflexes as they had in their prime. This is just speculation, though. But the demographics argument makes sense. --- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U mains: http://i.imgur.com/vLFcGb2.png Nintendo Network Name: JohnJohn</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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