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Before I ever got into pc gaming I played dust514. When I got into pc gaming I tried eve online and just never got into it. I love real time strategy and thought this would be the mmo equivalent, but it wasn't. I get the urge to try again every once in a while, but it still never clicks.
Eve is a unique game, its incredibly complex and also quite boring most of the time but its a huge sandbox with a lot of different types of gameplay mechanics. When I first started the game myself and several other new players started a corporation and focused on mining and hauling and we ended up growing to about a hundred people at which point some corporations started going to war against us, presumably just for target practice, but we learned how to fight back and it was a really satisfying experience. Later on I joined null sec alliances in big wars, pirate groups leeching off anything that moved in low sec, noob corps mass recruiting and engaging in factional warfare. I haven't played in more than a decade but I'm always thinking about getting back into it - I love the style and complexity of the game but its hard to get much out of it if you don't put a lot of time into it.
I think the game is more or less free to play until you get to a certain point with skills. If you give it another go I recommend getting yourself into a corporation where people will show you the ropes and help you explore different aspects of the game.
See the thing is, games like this require time sink. And I just don't do that. I might play games for about an hour after work then be done. I might play more games if I'm out the house, vacation or something, but these days I'm on a steam deck so that doesn't work out. I think these sort of games are very cool, they're just not designed for me since i struggle to put that kind of time in.