I've definitely always thought of League of Legends as a young person's game: Between the fast twitch esports focus, meta Kpop tie-ins, and overtures to streaming and influencer culture, I was all too happy to act my age and hang up my Jayce: The Defender of Tomorrow hammer a full ten years ago.
But it turns out those who kept playing League also kept getting older, because time works the same whether or not you're into MOBAs, Kpop, or slamming your head against ranked queue. "I think it's certainly true that our audience is aging up," Game director Pu Liu said in a recent Q&A around the Summer Game Fest, though he noted that "it's not inherently a bad thing."
