i tried the 14 day trial 3 times, and after 5-6 days of it I couldn't take the skill times, and the lack of PvE. Everyone always told me, but the games about the Corporations, and PvP. Well i'm not wild about player driven econmies, and having to mine asteroids for 7 days a week.. but it seems thats all there is to do when you begin the game. It just the gap between newbs and l33ts seems to large to tackle, and the amount of griefing is astronomical, I spent like 9 days getting money to buy some larger ship, with all these drones, and anti-this and that.. all of it gone in like 2 seconds, when I was trying to find an asteroid to mine, by some player who was incredibly uber over me (and yes in 2 seconds I was destroyed, never saw him, and until I was dead, and he flew by me). I have wanted to try and love the game, cause it truely is a badass looking and conceptual great game, but alas its not for me.
the game is VERYYYY hard to start off with.. the frist few weeks of mine were killer then i got some corp people to take me in to low sec space with alot of pirates.. i can kill each of em for isk and use the ISK to buy game time! turst me after aroudn a month the game gets REALLY addicting..
I did pre beta and beta on this *shrugs* eh, never played once it hit shelves, prolly still have my free copy somewhere