Here's a rather amusing thing that happened to me this morning.
Overnight, I downloaded the SC client, thanks to their "free trial" thing that some kind person posted up. When I got up this morning, one of the first things I did was fire it up.
My eight year old daughter came over, and asked excitedly, "Daddy, what's THAT?". I said, "It's Star Citizen - a new game some people are building. It's only a small part of it, as they are still making it."
"It's
really pretty! Can you fly over there to that thing?", she said, pointing at some orbital beam thingy off in the middle distance. Before I could reply, she asked, "Is this like
Elite?".
"It will be a bit like Elite, I suppose, as you'll be able to fly all over the place, buy stuff, buy different ships, see all sorts of planets and so on. But it's not finished yet, so right now you can just walk around the hangar, fly around this bit of the game, and dogfight with other ships."
<APPROACHING SIMULATION BOUNDARY>
"And it doesn't look like I can fly all the way over to that thing just yet."
My daughter turned to me, looking cross.
"Well. I think they should spend a bit less time making it
pretty, and a bit more time making it
work."
And with that, she turned her back and trotted off to do something else. Leaving me picking up my jaw from the floor.
So... Chris Roberts... you're on notice, mate. You don't want to cross those next gen gamers-in-training. Tough crowd!
