I tried EVE way back when because the logistics bit interested me. Lasted maybe two weeks—yes, not enough time, but the time sink required was ridiculous.
I point all those interested in EVE Online to ProsperousUniverse. No P2W. No auto-recurring sub. Slow paced and doesn’t penalize you for not being online all the time.
I got a week’s free trial to EVE Online way back in the day. I played through the tutorial bit where it shows you how to click on an asteroid to shoot it, I got into the game proper, encountered another human character, asked what the game was about, and he said “Anything you want.” And I logged off and never looked back.
Did anyone play Blink back in the day? Lots of memories sitting in Jita.
There’s a fun game in there somewhere, but man… The combination of it being a subscription model and the way that you train skills by running out an IRL clock just never sat right with me.
The latter part is really what pushed me away. I didn’t even hear about the game until it had been out for a year or two, and I was interested in the PvP scene; it just feels like unless you were playing from launch, you’re always gonna be behind.
The subscription would have, but the idea of being able to pay for that by just playing the game was neat, and even doable from their free trial if you joined a decent guild (or corp or whatever).