I was really bored one day, having nothing to play when suddenly I had the sudden urge to play freelancer. Now this has happened may times throughout the years. Freelancer is the one game that I've always found entertaining. So I went through the usual process to play freelancer. Made a mess in my house trying to find the old dusty disc, install it - which usually takes a few minutes, download the appropriate mods and updates, so and so forth.. eventually I'm set and start playing it. But unfortunately I always get through the whole game in a few hours.
Which leads me to how I found out about star citizen; I usually google freelancer 2 release date theories just for shits and giggles and look at pictures of "what could have been" with much sadness of course. After that, I google "games like freelancer 2013" and look at youtube videos of crappy space sims. While watching those videos however I kept noticing in the comments section the mention of "Chris Roberts" and his "new project". I goggled him and found out it was he who founded Digital Anvil and made Freelancer. Which lead me to his current site and eventually to my now obsession with this amazing project.
That was last October. I'm so happy I found out about this early on.
What about you? How'd you hear about it?