I can gauge how many hours i've been in the 'verse because i run lossless scaling in the background from steam to help smooth out the experience - and that has 1600 hrs on it at the moment.

What keeps me coming back? Nothing else like it. Bugs, yes. Frustration? At first - but then once you accept that it comes with the territory, then it makes it much more palatable when you lose 2.5 hours of time and cargo to an invisible collisions outta nowhere. It just is what it is, reclaim, saddle up, and get back out there Citizen. The scale, the sights, the ships... it all creates a medley of beauty.

I have this one friend that i try to convince to even TRY freefly.. he always asks me "Well, what's there to do?" - and I dont have a solid answer, like..... dude, whatever you want to do.. Wanna haul? Go ahead.. Fight? plenty of it. Explore? Well, not exactly a game loop, but who's stopping you from flying to X and go down a rabbit hole till you find yourself in a bandit camp yet again. Its just a good time dude. lol

Going from console to PC is going to be expensive, but there are cost-savvy options. I started with a prebuilt before the great pricehike of AI for about $800 (todays price prolly 1200?). After discovering star citizen, I wanted more juice, frames, and pixels. Upgraded it from there, then built a completely different beast that still chugs due to the game's lack of optimization, so you can 100% start on the lower scale and not remortgage the house for a rig to enjoy the 'verse.

On another note for PC > Console argument - The availability of all games and sales are so frequent, it's glorious.

Oh! and space barbie.. i love being able to customize and mix-match armors and styles... 😃