Recent reviews by thirdedition

A+ Would play again.

Over the past four years CCP has proven time and time again to not listen to their players.

The amount of micro-transactions and cash grabs on an already expensive MMO have become too much.

I had hope that the Euinox expansion would breath new life into the game and help undo some of the wrongs that were made in the past, instead the devs have doubled down. The new ship skinning tool was a much sought after addition to the game, but instead of being this amazing tool, you need to use PLEX ( which is put into the game using real world currency) to skin your ships, and costs even more PLEX in order to create your ship skins faster.

There seems to have been limited to no testing on the developers part on many of the changes, as they have been patched and re-patched again in less than a month, and things are still not working correctly.

Finally, they seem to not want people to mine anymore. In a previous patch they introduced what they called "scarcity" which shifted and removed much of the ore from the game. Ore is used to refine into minerals. Minerals are used to build ships, weapons, and ammo. Since scarcity, ship prices have more than doubled, but the ways to earn money to buy the ships has remained largely static, or now been severely diminished. A major selling point for this patch was to give the minerals back to space for people to mine, but they haven't delivered on that promise.

If you are a returning player, hoping Equinox would breath life back into the game, I wouldn't bother. If you are new player hoping to find a fun space game where you can build and fly ships, look elsewhere unless you want to pay real world money on top of your subscription to get going.