I’ll start: I (wrongly) used the card mom said was for emergencies for the original Kickstarter. Since then I’ve gotten a degree, started my career, partnered in a startup, and moved down and across the country a couple times as well.
I failed highschool, got a shitty job, lost shitty job, got shitty job, quit shitty job, unemployed, got shitty job, didn’t get paid for shitty job, unemployed, started community college. If only I hadn’t Kickstarted a video game, maybe my life wouldn’t be such a mess, lol.
Got myself a proper full-time job, my apartment got renovated, and I’ve ended up becoming an Evocati.
My life isn’t particularly interesting when it comes to large-scale changes.
Got a master’s, changed careers, changed jobs and finally landed a dream job. Also got married and moved countries. Unfortunately I don’t have a gaming PC here so hopefully I’ll be back in my home country by the time squadron comes out or I’ll be building one here and shipping it back with me.
Game wise: started with Pathfinder package in 2016, origin315. Now I’m quite a bit further in… I like the ships that have utility vs combat ships… And there are quite a few of those.
Personally: sold a house, moved to apartment, bought a house, moved cities twice, made 3 career changes and in a fairly decent spot now. Very different from where I was.
I’ve had a whole marriage that lasted shorter than since I’ve backed this game.
I am still alive, all my family members are still healthy and fine, so everything is good.
I even sold some of the packages I bought years ago for ridiculous sums at ebay.
When I backed during Kickstarter (I missed the first 10k backer numbers, but I am still within 100k) I was a department head in a pharmaceutical company (the job title would be director now), had a lot of money and 14h of work related time a day. In 2017 I reached Legatus Navium ranks.
Nowadays, I changed my job and company without being forced to, took a year off for myself without working and work now in a different company as a usual employee in part time. I live healthy, bicycle a lot and work 15min away where I live instead of driving 3h a day to get to a company 60km away by car in daily traffic jams. I am there for my kids and parents and are more happy by far than I was, when I backed for the ‘new Wing Commander Privateer game’, that I rediscovered playing with my new co workers (“whaaaat? YOU are a Legatus Navium whale? Are you insane?”).
Same old story: Changed careers, mortgaged a house, got married, had kids, burned out of 99% of games I used to enjoy. lol.
I left secondary school, got a degree, started a career and bought a house and car!
