Yes, I love the game, but not only because it's a good game. There is also a very personal and private reason behind it.
You see, while I make friends quickly, I also seem to be quickly out of their mind. Can't really count how many friends simply vanished. I could usually prolong it by talking to them, but after a while being the one to initiate the contact is not easiest. I'm apparently the "out of sight, out of mind" kind of friend.
The exception to that rule is my friend Andy. While I have lost contact with him for several years, we recently reconnected, and partially it was an effort from his side (He created a Google+ account, with the main hopes of me finding him there.)
But what does that have to do with Elite: Dangerous? I met Andy the first time in 1980, in First Grade. It took a while before we became good friends, but in the end we did. We both had the same home computer in the mid 80's, the Amstrad CPC. And we both loved Elite. We switched to PCs about the same time, and we both loved the PC versions of Elite as well as the Frontier games. We shared our hobbies: Elite, Frontier, the Ultima RPGs, ElfQuest comics, etc.
I still kept in touch with him when I moved from Munich to Berlin. It was Andy who got me interested in this newfangled thing called internet. It was Andy who got me into CompuServe. That's where I met my wife, so I guess I have to blame him for that.
I still kept contact with Andy after I moved from Germany to the USA. At least for several years that is. I lost contact with him around the time my 2nd child (my son) was born in 2006.
When I saw the kickstarter for Elite: Dangerous one of my first thoughts was "I wonder if Andy knows about that."
As I said, I got back into contact with him him through Google+, and in his 3rd message he mentioned Elite: Dangerous and that when he heard about it he was thinking about me.
tl;dr: Elite: Dangerous is not only a great game, but it also reminds me my friend whom I know for almost 35 years now.
You see, while I make friends quickly, I also seem to be quickly out of their mind. Can't really count how many friends simply vanished. I could usually prolong it by talking to them, but after a while being the one to initiate the contact is not easiest. I'm apparently the "out of sight, out of mind" kind of friend.
The exception to that rule is my friend Andy. While I have lost contact with him for several years, we recently reconnected, and partially it was an effort from his side (He created a Google+ account, with the main hopes of me finding him there.)
But what does that have to do with Elite: Dangerous? I met Andy the first time in 1980, in First Grade. It took a while before we became good friends, but in the end we did. We both had the same home computer in the mid 80's, the Amstrad CPC. And we both loved Elite. We switched to PCs about the same time, and we both loved the PC versions of Elite as well as the Frontier games. We shared our hobbies: Elite, Frontier, the Ultima RPGs, ElfQuest comics, etc.
I still kept in touch with him when I moved from Munich to Berlin. It was Andy who got me interested in this newfangled thing called internet. It was Andy who got me into CompuServe. That's where I met my wife, so I guess I have to blame him for that.
I still kept contact with Andy after I moved from Germany to the USA. At least for several years that is. I lost contact with him around the time my 2nd child (my son) was born in 2006.
When I saw the kickstarter for Elite: Dangerous one of my first thoughts was "I wonder if Andy knows about that."
As I said, I got back into contact with him him through Google+, and in his 3rd message he mentioned Elite: Dangerous and that when he heard about it he was thinking about me.
tl;dr: Elite: Dangerous is not only a great game, but it also reminds me my friend whom I know for almost 35 years now.
