A huge discount today has taken the price of EVE Online’s Core Starter Pack and its four add-on packs collectively down to just $5. It doesn’t get much better than that!
they also offer 30 days trials. so if you sign up for a 30d trial, and then buy the bundle for $5, you’ll have 60 days for free.
If i didnt have a job… or a life… i would play the shit out of this.
I think its like any other MMO… except in that game. everything is on one server… and there are literally corporations that make in game money… that were started by people just playing the game… its literally its own world. so do quests, or kill people and take their shit… in space. In game economy, in game thieves, spies, pirates, rogues… these arent classes, this is just what people will do.
its like not WOW or GW2 where you die and come back… if your ship blows up you lose it… and some of them cost over $1000 real world dollars. its nuts… and thats why i can never touch that game… cuz i will lose my life.
I played EVE for over a year, and felt I went no where. In order to take full advantage of it, you need to be part of a Corporation. Playing alone is boring, like being in space by yourself. It’s a game of spreadsheets and stats in space. Lots and lots of spreadsheets. There’s so much to the game, be it’s intense in-game economy (like @Audible_Silence said, real world money on top of the subscription), huge epic space battles that require intimate knowledge of all ships, skills and weaponry, or the trading system. Not to mention how huge the game is in scale. There was a thread a long time ago on the EVE forums about how long it would take to get from one side of the “map” to the other; took some guy over 200 hours to travel. The game is crazy awesome if you’re into this genre, but definitely a life taker. I had to stop because it was taking up too much of my time.