Hey There,
My name is Al, I'm a 53 year old Culinary Arts Instructor at Camosun College here on Vancouver Island.
I've only been playing online games for about 10 years (I'm a late bloomer!) and the majority of it has been on WoW, which is the only game I am currently playing.
I almost quit WoW permanently a few months ago due to the frustration level playing in guilds that where made up of kids and the drama that goes along with said age group (No, you can't borrow a 1000 gold, quit asking please! No I won't run your 3rd alt through Deadmines again, quit asking please! Etc, etc, etc!). I will go out of my way and make time to try and help almost anyone in game that I can, but we all have our limits. I ended up pulling all my 8 chars out of guilds and just played solo for the past two & a half months, the peace was blissful!
I stumbled on to TOG and was pumped to find that there was actually a site that catered to the older and more mature crowd of gamers. Really looking forward to being part of it.
P.S. I'm really not as cynical as I sound, just frustrated.