I’ve always wanted to attend Eve Online’s Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland. I made a group of a friend when I played that game back in 2008. Many of us are still friends to this day and almost talk daily. It was something we already wanted to do together but never could afford to get that off our bucket list. We still hope one day. These days its “someone starting a family and this year is just not a good year.”
I bet when we are all old men unable to party on the top of the world like we want to we will end up going. For now, it will just be a great dream to have.
While there will be a fair amount of parting to do it’s also rather a geeky event to go to. People going in cosplay dressed as characters in the game. People role-playing as their own character. lots of presentations to attend during the day about upcoming changes to the game. While we don’t play more it just be fun to enjoy that atmosphere.
Besides that, I would hope to expand out my trip there for a little while after the fanfest was over. Lots of sightseeing to do in Iceland from sg glaciers to backpacking trips around to get to lagoons and to see many other things.
I've never been to Iceland but I hear it's breathtaking.
I totally get that friends from an online game thing. I feel the same way about my guildmates in SWTOR. Many of us don't play often anymore, but are friends on social media. When I used to play the game full time, we had Mumble where we could talk to each other. Many of us opened up and shared about what we were going through in life and could confide in each other. We were not only a guild of gamers, we were an online support group, who sometimes got on each other's nerves. I'd love to meet up with them at some point and just hang out with them all. If I make enough crypto investments and it hits high values, maybe I'd be able to fund a meetup with the whole gang. We'd probably do it in Fargo because a good number of them actually live there, so it would be simpler for the rest of us to go there.