Almost every time I ' ve praised Elite , I ' ve qualified it as something that takes a certain mindset to get in , is something that is fairly unfinished , and has flaws as often as it has solutions . But my position , and those who feel the same , is that despite the hurdles , it ' s worth it . For us , Elite is about how it makes you feel when you are doing x , y , or z , in space , in your own spaceship , with a community of other spacetravellers . The game is advertised in such a way to get the most interest possible , but once you get in the game it does it ' s best to teach you what it ' s about on it ' s own level . That ' s not really a new or even bad thing . Advertising Cabin In the Woods separately , as both a Comedy and a Horror movie , captures those who might not like one or the other , and then reveals itself to not really be eitheror . Or like the cinematic trailers for games like WoW or Civwhich don ' t at all reflect the actual experience of gameplay . If you are expecting unvarnished truth in advertising , where have you been for the last 100 years ? I suppose you can call it deceptive , but it ' s not really lying . It does do all the things it says , just not in the way people might be used to seeing them . But then why does frontier advertise it as an MMO like space ' epic ' and not like The spiritual successor to the original Elite with an included coop functionality ? They do both , really . And they aren ' t technically wrong , which is the best kind of right . Just like how Alien Isolation is technically an FPS , but vastly different from most other FPSs .