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Do you think that age will matter?
You see, I am 15 years old and I am wanting to start playing MMORPG's and I, at the moment, is playing others to gain experience. I have seen a lot of guilds that are only publishing for 18+ but do you think that age matters in this game? I'm just wondering as I have never asked this question before and I am asking this question to see if people can give there opinion on the ages in MMORPG's. 
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I'm sure you'll find the right guild for you
One other reason is chat/voice chat. Although I never experienced it or seen it myself, I remember that in one of the guilds I visited, one of their guild mates was using Ts3 with them and they were in a raid. At some point, the conversation started going nsfw because of a monster who looked like a man's pride. And it happened. The mother of the guy heard those guys and her son talking about that and shit happened.
This is not something which happens often, but it might and it's better to not take any risk.
So the 18+ is here for "Please no drama, don't be a whiny little kid, be sure that you can handle mature language and not be offended by the first racist/whatever joke someone said when he didn't mean anything behind it, stay cool and free". Because we're here to play for fun.
Like if you spam in guild chat help I am dying. We would first find out what is the problem. If its just being a noob we let that slide. If we know its some griefer we would come and help you.
If you die in the most unusual ways we need to educate you.
If you have a cape and think your superman and die we will not help you.
If you keep asking the guild for gold because your too lazy, it my seem we need to path ways.
P.S.
When I ran my eve online corp we had the Window Licker Award. This was awarded at great expense to your character.
You had to really do something stupid. But we were fair. All the officers had to agree for that person to get awarded that.
Guilds make 18+ like people are saying to avoid drama and to have a mature community. The older people are the bigger chance to get that
But as long you take the game seriously when the time comes to do that, you will have no problem in the game
The guild can also help you with getting a more mature gameplay, so it can also depend on the guild how they handle the problem
The plan for full release is for 2020 if I remember correctly.
Also probably lots of fun guilds won't care about age. You can even create your own. I was 14 when I first started playing mmo's and I've got a warm welcome from community (the guild I joined medium age was 25-30).
Just like some music is "explicit 18+", it's just music and if you can handle it without spouting those types of lyrics off in front of a parent that prefers you don't it's no problem. However, if you don't want to hear those types of lyrics or often listen to your music with your parents, that might not be for you.
There is a plethora of guilds, pick one that fits you best mate!
Some guilds put out 18+ restrictions because some people just want to play with like minded and similar people.
A guild filled with 21+ year olds just won't have as much in common with 12-17 year olds. From childhood nostalgia to daily work life.
That doesn't necessarily mean you can't join. Most guilds hardly have a proper way of enforcement.
Needless to say things would get mature in chat but I would just keep quiet and not engage in a conversation on subjects I knew little or nothing about. Eventually I told everyone my age once I got comfortable with them. It embarrassed a few of the women only because of the things they had said in chat but I explaining that I was raised in public school and they weren't saying anything I hadn't already heard a million times so we had a good laugh about that and they continued to be themselves in chat.
As long as you conduct yourself appropriately most of the time it'll go something like that so I wouldn't worry to much about your age.
Horrible, horrible parents who would bribe him with xp for good behavior.
He could play up to Level 8 well enough that other players would ask him why he refused to chat with them, but of course, he couldn't even read yet.
Some guilds have age restrictions. Others won't have age restrictions.
I don't join guilds that have restrictions because I hate restrictions.
But, you don't have to join a guild to have fun playing Ashes of Creation.
Also, as KiMi said, you will be close enough to 18 by the time the game launches, that it probably won't be an issue anyway.
There are of course exceptions and I've played with many younger people who were great.
So my preference may more be about personality than age.
Anyways I think the 18+ should be removed and replaced with Mature. At the end of the day, it boils down to the person, not their age.
Ofcourse you can just go online and there are ways around it all ^^ Heck when I was a kid used to go to the barralands in town and buy fake copies of games to dodge the age restriction xD
The game itself won't be restricting you in any kind, I guess.
The guilds that recruite 18+ or 21+ have different reasons for doing so. I dare to say that most reasons are legit, but sometimes the people making those rules are 18+, but very childish themself.
I started playing MMORPGs in your age (when I was 15), and had a really good start.
I came across two guilds in two different games back then and they both helped me to progress my (real) character. Heck, we even met multiple times in real life to grill and party (even though I was still a minor back then).
If you start of with the right people, you won't have a problem.
If you start of with bad people, you'll probably want to quit MMORPGs really fast again.
Let me give you three advices:
Don't diss my guild! xZ-EliteDarkShadowLords-Zx2
(The original is probably already reserved... So I decided to make sure I was at least the 2nd to think up this name)