costs

You may sense a recurring theme here. It's not that I think the Playstation platform is a bad one (it's not - apart from the PSP. Having now tried one, they are *utter* rubbish) but the lies, arrogance, and disrespect Sony show their customers is reaching unsustainable proportions.

You give a company hundreds of pounds over the years, investing in their console, their games, their peripherals. You'd think they'd make some sort of effort to give you recurring value? To, you know, keep you as a customer?

Just digging through my latest credit card statement, and I've just realised that I've been playing EVE for 4 years now.

I saw a copy on a shelf in Game shortly after release. I hadn't heard of it, and on the front cover it loudly proclaimed a quote from a review: "It's like a multiplayer version of Elite"

That was enough for me, and at £19.99 it was worth a punt. Got home, started reading the manual while installing the game, and was hooked. The universe was so vast, so complex, there was so much to do. I just got dragged in.