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>There is absolutely nothing that breaks immersion and destroys your enjoyment of a game universe like listening to teenagers talking smack.

Sounds like my experience with console games lately except I don't even think some of them are even teenagers yet. It really ruins some of the new games.

I wish we had a reliable way to play online games and play by age groups.

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As I was reading your comment, I heard "Call of Duty: Seniors Tour". Sadly[1], that actually would be a great idea although the definition of seniors might be interesting.

1) sadly that the environment is so toxic that this would be desirable

Seniors: Have been working full time for >1 year

Perhaps when our generation becomes seniors we will still play games.

Conversely, we attribute far too much immature behaviour to the mythical '14-year-old gamer'. Gamers aren't teenagers anymore, and haven't been for a long time. There's plenty of twentysomething immature gamers, and a few higher as well.

When I said not teenagers I was talking about people younger than 13, and believe me they are all over any COD game. Trust me some of them told me how old they were as they sang Miley Cirus songs to everyone playing.

The 20 somethings just talk trash and are rude the kids are just annoying and never stop talking.

(too late to edit: "gamers aren't synonymous with teenagers")

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