644 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 345.0 hrs on record (345.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: Nov 25, 2013 @ 1:13pm
Updated: Jan 23, 2015 @ 3:34pm

As an old MMO player of DAoC, WoW and UO, testing a game like EVE Online was a rather huge step for me, however I quickly learned that EVE is nothing like I expected.

The game is completely controlled by players in every aspect. Everyone is playing on one major server and even though that might seem like it's insane, there are times where you will find yourself all alone in the universe.

You start as a new pilot with an endless list of things you can do in the world, you can become a miner, a pirate, a warrior, a corp leader and many more.

You can make yourself the richest in the game or just feel like destroying other people to annoy them and steal their cargo. You can build the largest corp or have a group of friends just mining and having fun.

Everything is your choice, there is something to do for everyone.

EVE is not like other MMO´s where you can just log in and play for 10-15 mins and log out, EVE takes a lot of dedication and time to master, the largest ship possible to fly takes 2 years in real time to just be able to fly and even longer to be able to use all its functions. Although your skills train even when you´re offline, if you want to be the best and the most powerful get ready to spend a lot of time in this game.

All in all a great game and a great MMO that stands out, don´t let the monthly fee scare you away from trying as you can use in game money to buy monthly game time if you are rich enough, this won't happen after a month or two, but I did make it happen after my 3rd month and never paid since with Real Life money.
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22 Comments
Demozo Jul 22, 2014 @ 2:39pm 
I haven't played in a while though so I don't know if it's still like that. But I attempted doing this and got pretty close, didn't have the stamina to keep playing for that long, pretty much requires you to sleep 2 hours and play for 22 hours a day, for 14 days long. There was a 21 or 30 day trial during the EVE live stream at one point though. Sadly I missed it would've made it a lot easier on me.

Might return to EVE as well, though I never got far into the game. Don't like to play games by myself. :P
Zyddie Jul 22, 2014 @ 2:33pm 
ah then the value of stuff did go up since i did play :) nice to know Exodean prehaps time to return ^_^
Demozo Jul 22, 2014 @ 2:32pm 
You can actually earn enough ISK :muney: by focusing on mining in the trial period to buy a PLEX. You don't need to buy a 1 month sub first to upgrade your account. PLEX literally is the "item" equivalent of a 1 month sub and not just game time.
olievlekje May 6, 2014 @ 9:00am 
YEA use a free trial as chances are that you wont play this boring spreadsheet game for long
Moe Hommed May 2, 2014 @ 3:46am 
Anyone who buys this is stupid, can make a free trial for.. free!
Now I love this game, played it since 2006 but you would be stupid to buy what you can get for free.
Zyddie May 2, 2014 @ 2:42am 
You can make a 14 days trial as far as i know yes :)
Shalle May 2, 2014 @ 2:39am 
anyway I can make a trial character on the site, right? Or do I have to pay for a month at least?
Zyddie May 2, 2014 @ 1:48am 
at higher level you dont need to mine all the time, my fleet that i ran with i mined with 4 days in a month and we made enough to buy a month of game time in game ^_^

It really depends a lot on how you make you char and how you play it tbh.
Shalle May 2, 2014 @ 12:28am 
It looks like all they think about is their damn money. It's already insane if game costs more than 10€... but this costs ∞ . Why would you want to pay for a game for the rest of your life. I wouldn't actually be surprised if games would cost something like 200€ , because allot of people are actually dumb and they purchase, developer sees that it works and keeps putting up the price (Rob from the dumb and give to the smart, INFLATION).

Even though these your so called minings can be good, game shouldn't offer some pointless struggles just to play the game a little more, because then all you've gotta do is just mine (you can't even enjoy the game).

Though it's just my opinion and I haven't even tried the game, so I can't comment about in-game, sorry.
SMthegamer Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:34am 
Just to put it out there you can actually play without ever buying it; start the free trial and mine/sell continuously, it may be boring but you can earn PLEX before the trial even ends and simply upgrade for (effectively) free