I don't know, I've noticed that the average age of FL players is higher than that of other games I've played, mostly first person shooters.

I'd say middle aged people STARTED gaming back in the 80's. They just keep playing after all these years. If it weren't for my Dad who bought a C-64 back in 1983, i maybe would have started playing much later. He's a bad example though, because he doesn't play anymore. I'm 27 and wouldn't call myself middle aged.

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My guess is that this game appeals old Frontier Elite fans. I hate FPS games, but this game has more to it than just kill most baddies in the shortest thinkable time, much like Frontier. I'm 25, so I don't consider myself middle aged though

For those of you who don't know about Frontier, its an old game, and FL is obviously very inspired by it.

oldest fl player I meet so far: 47

Would 43 make me the second oldest?
And yep. I'm an old Elite fan, not to mention Sundog. I even dabbled a little with Wing Commander 2 since it was new when I bought my first PC, but since then I never really found a space game that got me hooked like FL has.
And hallelujah and good riddance of the joystick! I totally stink at Starlancer 'cuz I never can learn the damn thing.

Kindly
Ukhan Kizmiaz

jup close, though I know aswell 2 38 or 39 old once ... and I guess there are alot others of you old folk :p

hehe which makes me kinda happy, as I don´t have to feel like a grandpa with ppl that are still twice as old me arround

I'm 37......far from middle age and in the best shape of my life.

I am 61 but sure dont think of myself as old.
Yep - I started back in the early 80s using bulletin boards.
I loved Elite on the BBC and Atari ST and, IMO, it is still the best.
fl is very good but doesnt shine until you play MP - in SP it doesnt hold a candle to Elite.

In general, the nerdier (and deeper) the game, the older fans you're gonna fine.

FL is kinda nerdy. Not super-nerdy, but nerdier than, say, Serious Sam.

For the record, I'm 27

ER

Wow im starting to feel like a youngin again, im 26.

I think you either have the gaming gene or you don't
You can never outgrow comp. games, people just seem to think they should be doing adult things like perhaps their parents did. Me, nah.......there's no age limit to having a laugh and generally causing mayhem in a comp. game!! Besides.....after showing what games are like today to the ole man....me thinks he's being converted too

Oh, I'm 27 going on 21 again

Skymouse

well i'm 20 and i plan to play games for a good while yet, especially as my dad is 47 and loves his PS2... fon't think i can persuade him into buying a pc though.

36 here, love this game. Been gaming since 1985, this is the first space shooter I've played since homeworld. Heard so much about starlancer I told myself I had to buy this game when it came out, and I love it. I'm not too sure what you are implying about us middle-aged (hehe) people

Listen sonny....

I built my first two computers from kits in the early 80's, I played Elite (the reason freelancer, et all, exists) when it first came out, on a C=64, from there to an Amiga, then to things like the original Playstation, then the dreamcast, PS2, N64, Xbox, (took a few days of work to play Halo on lauch day last year I bought my first PC, (my first toy I own "real" computers for the most part, just bought a Sun Microsystems Ultra60 (UNIX server) for use as a firewall. (I own some 20+ working computers in total) I've been playing games before there were such things as PC's, I've actually paid to play Pong, and tried to buy an old "defender " cabinet, (bastard wouldn't sell it, said it brough in too many tourists having waisted some of my youth bunking of school to play it in the arcades. I've played "Robotron" and Battlezone on the origianl hardware. Robotron still rocks, it has flawless gameplay, that is totally minimal and totally frantic.

I'm 38, and if anything you kids are the ones flocking, we've always been here...

The reason we're playing is because this reminds us of elite, which wasn't as pretty, but in many ways was better. Personally I'm waiting for EVE-Online to see if the Finns can make good on Braben & Bell's promise of making a multiplayer elite. Because good as Freelancer is, it isn't it.

I fly a Dromedary, It's not a MK3 Cobra, or an IMP Courier, but it'll do. I finished the game from the Dublin mission on, in it. Torpedoes are for wusses

later
jb