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Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

01 Dec 2006 at 19:48 - 1

Hi, there,

Are you age 55+ and a Guild Wars player? We've been made aware of a pretty nifty opportunity: National Public Radio is creating a feature on gaming, and they want to interview Guild Wars players who are age 55+ who would be willing to have NPR visit their residence and record while they are playing.

Could that be you? Post here, or drop me a Private Message if you could help out! I'm not sure how far from Austin NPR is willing to go. Our NCsoft office is there, and the request is through PR at NCsoft, but it's possible NPR would include someone who's not exactly in Austin proper. Can't hurt to include your name if you're interested and if they're willing!

Thanks a bunch!

Stemnin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/Me

01 Dec 2006 at 20:10 - 2

Lucky I don't live in tx, otherwise you'd see me on youtube smashing my keyboard and yelling acadian curse words

, good luck to the winner

, but then again, its a little ways for me to 55..

Knightsaber Sith

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2006

Few Fallen Heroes [FFH]

W/E

01 Dec 2006 at 20:27 - 3

It's not exactly a contest to be won.... they just need people to interview for their show.

And if anyone asks why this is in the Q&A section; the question is "Are you 55+ and a GW player?".

Aleta

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

California

TTP

R/E

01 Dec 2006 at 22:04 - 4

That's going to be interesting

I know there are many in that group.

Darn and I am only a couple years short and not in Texas oh well.

Maybe California next time

sh4d0whunta

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2006

New Zealand

W/Mo

01 Dec 2006 at 23:21 - 5

people above 55 play i saw somone looking for an above 60s guild which i thought was strange oh well now i know older people play which is cool

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

01 Dec 2006 at 23:39 - 6

Not quite close enough, not quite old enough. Now if I could just get my mom to install and play GW... =)

Angelica

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Aussie land

Me/E

01 Dec 2006 at 23:48 - 7

Pity ......!
I live in Australia and I'm 55+ and I would have been so willing to do that!

Oh well that's real life!

@-sh4d0whunta Why do you find it strange? You will realize with time that getting old doesn't mean you should adapt to the portrait that the media show of old people! Even if your body gets old your mind doesn't!

mattjenkins

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

Texas, USA

Stone Cutters Clan [SCC]

Mo/Me

02 Dec 2006 at 00:02 - 8

I'm not exactly 55, but I am in fact in Austin. I've even beta tested games for NCSoft here! Go Austin!

sh4d0whunta

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2006

New Zealand

W/Mo

02 Dec 2006 at 03:31 - 9

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angelica

Pity ......!
I live in Australia and I'm 55+ and I would have been so willing to do that!

Oh well that's real life!

@-sh4d0whunta Why do you find it strange? You will realize with time that getting old doesn't mean you should adapt to the portrait that the media show of old people! Even if your body gets old your mind doesn't!

i just thought older people would be interested in other things btw im only 12

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

02 Dec 2006 at 04:04 - 10

Nah, some of us are just bigger kids now. I can buy my own toys and I don't have to share if I don't want to.

Well99

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Nix Guild (NG)

N/E

02 Dec 2006 at 04:41 - 11

In my second or third childhood ...what were talking about.Well I am close but no cigar.I think I saw on Diablo fansite where someone in 70s was still playing the game.

Shadow of Light

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Australia

Mo/

02 Dec 2006 at 04:47 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by sh4d0whunta

i just thought older people would be interested in other things btw im only 12

Er... you do realise you have to be at least 13 before you're allowed to post here?

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sissy4005

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Iowa Guild Wars

E/Mo

02 Dec 2006 at 06:21 - 13

I'm 41 female and I have 4 GW accounts and I have Prophecies,Factions and Nightfall on 2 of the accounts and just Prophecies & Factions on the other 3 and I also have collectors for all 3,i'm just hooked on GW.. I can blaim 2 of my 3 kids for that because they got me started on GW... I just love the game and dont feel it matters how old you are anyone can play...

Arcador

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

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R/N

02 Dec 2006 at 10:01 - 14

[offtopic]
I have long way to get to there, but one thing is sure - gamer is a gamer for life

Even not on pc

N E D M

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Officer's Club

Gameamp Guides [AMP]

02 Dec 2006 at 10:03 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by sissy4005

I'm 41 female and I have 4 GW accounts and I have Prophecies,Factions and Nightfall on 2 of the accounts and just Prophecies & Factions on the other 3 and I also have collectors for all 3,i'm just hooked on GW.. I can blaim 2 of my 3 kids for that because they got me started on GW... I just love the game and dont feel it matters how old you are anyone can play...

. . . .

so you have how many accounts? 4? 3? 5?

Lets Get to Healing

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

You want see?

True Gods of War [True]

Mo/W

02 Dec 2006 at 10:29 - 16

Quote:

Originally Posted by N E D M

. . . .

so you have how many accounts? 4? 3? 5?

Yeah .. . 4 accounts 2 with NF and the other three with just Proph and Factions . . . .? That's five.

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

02 Dec 2006 at 10:34 - 17

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki?title=I...pg&redirect=no

squee!

CyberNigma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

San Antonio, TX

W/R

02 Dec 2006 at 10:40 - 18

my mesmer and monk are both pretty good 55's. with a bit of dp I can get them down to 13's...

Lord Beramus

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

a lot of different places

Brutal Encounter

W/Mo

02 Dec 2006 at 10:55 - 19

"We don't stop playing because we are getting older....we are getting older because we stop playing"

I am far away from meeting time and place requirments for an interview and my english accent is tremendous (let's not talk about my spelling) but I felt like offering this line, thinking that it might be appropriate to be heard on air.

I would like to ask if there is going to be the possibility to download the transmission in mp3 sometime later.

elsalamandra

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

02 Dec 2006 at 11:25 - 20

Hey :0

I am 43 years old. (DOB 08/08/63)

(Ms Graye was born on the same day). <------irrelevant

i am thouroughly addicted to guild wars.

I have had a lot of younger players calling me 'pops', 'dad' and even 'gramps'.

You see, age does not matter to play a game regardless whether its on-line or something as simple as a game battleships.

it is the conception of many people that games = toys = children and also that being 'older' means that 'no fun'.

Well this is a misconception and those who think this will find out for themselves when they get to this so called 'old' age.

After all, what is time?

I quote Mr Spock from a star trek movie 'time, is the fire that consumes us'.

I also quote a famous saying by Muhatma Ghandi 'you are never too old to pay games, you grow old when you stop playing them'.

So all thumbs up for Ms Graye.

coleslawdressin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Victory on Demand [VoD]

Me/Mo

02 Dec 2006 at 11:47 - 21

Over 55.. GW player.. living in Austin.. Sounds pretty rare.

Anywayz, I am in my mid 20s and my 55-ish dad got me into gaming when I was like 4. I haven't seen him excited about gaming since the days of Commodore and Pole Position and Ms PacMan though. Maybe after he retires I can get him hooked on something. Probably it will be something crappy like WoW.. and I will have to be like OMG NUB PLAY GW

Grannysaff

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2006

Spawn Of Discordia

Mo/Me

02 Dec 2006 at 21:54 - 22

I'll be 55 next month and I'm addicted to GW, and several other RPGs too. I've managed to get my entire family hooked on GW which is fantastic because I can meet up with them online and chat or play or whatever, GW has brought my family even closer. Unfortunately I am in the UK so I'm not going to be getting any visits, but for you young uns out there, there are more of us old fogeys online than you would imagine. Grow old gracefully? Nah, I intend to grow old as disgracefully as I possibly can.

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

03 Dec 2006 at 04:47 - 23

I want to be on NPR

Sounds like it will be a neat skit... Good luck getting people who play GW.

Samuel Dravis

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Mo/Me

03 Dec 2006 at 05:52 - 24

AHHH! I live in Austin but I'm a few years short of 55. 36 short, to be precise. Gaile, you sure they won't take me instead?

brokenmonkey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

CA

[UC] Uber Crue

W/

03 Dec 2006 at 05:52 - 25

Have fun guys!/girls =D

XvArchonvX

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

03 Dec 2006 at 06:50 - 26

Any idea when this will be aired? I live in the San Antonio area (about an hour away from Austin) and listen to NPR often. I'm too young to participate, but I would hear this when it's aired.

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

03 Dec 2006 at 08:56 - 27

Thanks for all the posts. I have a couple of PMs and we may have someone who can help out, but I'd simply love to have more possibilities to pass to PR at the Austin offices of NCsoft. (They are the originator of the request.)

When I started reading it, I was thinking "Hey, they can come to my house. How many 108-year-old female gamers can there be?"

Anyway, if anyone else might fit the bill -- and I'm going to say that we would likely consider anyone 50+ -- then please do PM me.

I don't know about the air date, but I will find out and let you guys know.

KlutzySpy

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Denmark

Venatus Una

N/Rt

03 Dec 2006 at 18:53 - 28

Ive sent a +50years - US-citizen guildy a email saying to contact you Gray.. heads up!

didia

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Helping Guild

R/Mo

03 Dec 2006 at 19:12 - 29

Hi,
I meet the required age (actually, I'm past 60), live in Austin, and would be glad to be interviewed. I play GW just about every day, and usually log on in the early evening to meet and play with a friend from Australia.
We are, in fact, both senior citizens, LOL. Anyway, we communicate via Skype while we're playing, so there's lots of talking, laughing, and shared "thrills and chills" in adventuring.

Arey-JT

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Killing Fields

W/

03 Dec 2006 at 20:02 - 30

Ok, well i got 3 canidates for you.
My Great Grandmother plays, she is 80+ haha
and My Aunt Judy, and uncle Ben play, they're over 55.

Send me an Email at, [email protected]

and ill send you Information to get in touch with them. they're in the Dallas and Fort worth areas.

Lycan Nibbler

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

AZ

03 Dec 2006 at 21:20 - 31

Originally Posted by sissy4005
I'm 41 female and I have 4 GW accounts and I have Prophecies,Factions and Nightfall on 2 of the accounts and just Prophecies & Factions on the other 3 and I also have collectors for all 3,i'm just hooked on GW.. I can blaim 2 of my 3 kids for that because they got me started on GW... I just love the game and dont feel it matters how old you are anyone can play...

Quote:

Originally Posted by N E D M

. . . .

so you have how many accounts? 4? 3? 5?

Thats what happens when you get to 41.....

oops.. I'M 41!!!!

Male with 6 (yes, I counted twice) accounts and way too many chars.....

Lycan Nibbler

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

AZ

03 Dec 2006 at 21:22 - 32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

When I started reading it, I was thinking "Hey, they can come to my house. How many 108-year-old female gamers can there be?"

Yes, but you don't look a day over 107...

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet

Join Date: Feb 2005

03 Dec 2006 at 21:28 - 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Drops Az

Yes, but you don't look a day over 107...

Oh, bless you, I try. It's that steady diet of Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, bagels, and chocolate, I'm sure. *snicker*

Now, those of you with possible Austin-area contacts, please send me a PM so that we can discuss this. I will need the name, age, address, and telephone number for contact by our PR folks. I would benefit from a character name, but that's why I want to discuss this via PM. If it's you you're writing about, great. If not, please let that person know to PM me and I'll give contact information back to him/her.

Thanks so much!

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

04 Dec 2006 at 13:03 - 34

I'm 51 and in my first childhood. Didn't have it when I was a kid. It's way better to have it now tho. As another poster said, I can buy my own games and I don't have to share. I'm in PA tho.....darn it.

sissy4005

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

Iowa Guild Wars

E/Mo

04 Dec 2006 at 14:25 - 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by sissy4005

I'm 41 female and I have 4 GW accounts and I have Prophecies,Factions and Nightfall on 2 of the accounts and just Prophecies & Factions on the other 3 and I also have collectors for all 3,i'm just hooked on GW.. I can blaim 2 of my 3 kids for that because they got me started on GW... I just love the game and dont feel it matters how old you are anyone can play...

yeah sry guys i put a 3 when it was supose to be a 2... but I do have 5 accounts but I havent done anything with the 5th one so I dont even count it...but I have 4 accounts that I play on... sry for the mix up.

The Missing Monk

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Netherlands

Souls of Glory [SoG]

Mo/

04 Dec 2006 at 16:05 - 36

Interesting, like said before there are way more "older" players playing then we can imagine.

Offtopic: Nothing beats the fan with 9 accounts.

silvernail

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2006

none

R/

04 Dec 2006 at 18:05 - 37

I usually get lots of "man, I wish my dad played!" when I tell my group I am 56 and have children older than they are lol.

Justis Guy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

W/E

04 Dec 2006 at 20:08 - 38

Hi Gaile.
I am one of the older players in OAK, Order of Ascalonian Knights, but I am just 43. We do have 2 players in our Guild that are over 55; freinds living near each other in Illinios. they are Henry Paul, and Victoria Virulent.
I met them in Pre Searing and invited them to join this cool guild I just joined, and they did when they got to Post.

hopefully this will help you out.
Justis Guy, aka Justthis Girl (my main character, Monk)

Justis Guy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

W/E

04 Dec 2006 at 20:08 - 39

Hi Gaile.
I am on eof the older players in OAK, Order of Ascalonian Knights, but I am just 43. We do have 2 players in our Guild that are over 55; freinds living near each other in Illinios. they are Henry Paul, and Victoria Virulent.
I met them in Pre Searing and invited them to join this cool guild I just joined, and they did when they got to Post.

hopefully this will help you out.
Justis Guy, aka Justthis Girl (my main character, Monk)

hell on dirt

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2006

Temple of Wisdom (TOW)

N/Mo

04 Dec 2006 at 21:21 - 40

Hi Gaile;

I'm 60+ and have played computer games for 30+ years.

I'm retired, live in Minnesota, and play GW 6+ hours per day. Both of my sons (30+) also play it and we play together whenever they have time.

Anytime you need an older player's point of view, send me a note.