but I want to know how do you love a game where you dont have anything to do and even with the stuff you get to do its ultra repetitive and grindy.
I would hazard a guess that at least 2/3 of the fanb... most faithful supporters are
VR kit owners. VR is a new and powerful experience on its own so it makes even the most otherwise mundane tasks/experiences feel refreshing and interesting
There is also quite a large subset of them who are
SIM guys. I personally know many, so, with a bit of generalisation, I can say that they
are a pretty special bunch, and
not really gamers at all. Many of them in fact despise games (games are for kids and dummies you know, they don`t play games, they fly planes) and don`t play anything but 2-3 Simulators and that`s it. So for them anything besides flying is an unneeded side activity, flavour, nothing else.
I would also hazard a guess that most of them are simply
old people with not much connection to modern gaming (sorry folks, no disrespect, I`m not young too) and therefore have different expectations (in my age we played sandbox and we liked it!) towards games and d
ifferent meaning of terms like "active", "involved", "slow" etc. They are tired with everyday life and they enjoy the soothing music and long hours of flying in a straight line, doing nothing but sipping whiskey between naps.
I still remember when sometime short after launch a guy`s (one of the big fans who used to sing the "this game is not slow and boring, it`s you" song) wife took a picture of him after he fell asleep face flat on his desk drooling while "playing" Elite, and posted it on the forums via his account, Good times. It was quickly removed though :/
Some of them are probably
also people who have heavily invested themselves in this game during the gold period (everything until beta2), they were promoting the game on various sites, praising it, "selling" it to others by posting the DDF and other promises like early newsletters, then when the release came and had like 10-20% of what was expected the cognitive dissonance became so strong that denial had to come in and now they are
in an endless loop of defensive mechanisms (denial, perpetual moving of goalposts, "faith like" hope and believe in "frontier can do no wrong " mantra)
I`m also a fan boy, just a butt hurt and former one
I was driving my SRV around a misty crater last night and I look up to see the ringed planet above me eclipse the main star. And while I sat there watching it I thought "What other game comes close to conveying these moments of isolation, insignificance and magnificence?"
a 25 years old Frontier Elite 2... does it better (IMO, ofc.)