Friends, Gamers, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to praise EVE, not to bury it.
The podding that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their debris;
So let it be with EVE. The noble CCP
Hath told you EVE was fair:
If it were so, it was a generous trait,
And generously hath EVE answer’d it.
Here, under leave of CCP and the rest–
For CCP is an honourable team;
So are they all, all honourable devs–
Come I to speak in EVE’s success.
It was difficult, taxing and spitefull to me:
But CCP says it was fair;
And CCP is an honourable team.
It hath wrought many hours stayed at home
Whose ransoms did the pirate coffers fill:
Did this in EVE seem fair?
When that the noob have cried, EVE hath laughed:
Fairness should be made of softer stuff:
Yet CCP says it was fair;
And CCP is an honourable team.
You all did see that on the Lunar cycle
I thrice presented it a kingly monthly sum,
Which it did thrice accept: was this fairness?
Yet CCP says it was fair;
And, sure, it is an honourable team.
I speak not to disprove what CCP spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love it once, not without cause:
What else allowed you to level without logging on?
O brutish rogues! thou art lead to greedy ways,
And corps have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My avatar is in the void there with EVE,
And I must cancel till it come back to me.

Beautiful, realistic art and sense of scale	Sharpest learning curve in history
Level while you are at work!	Horrendous death penalty
One of the best soundtracks in a game, period	The fruitless task of trying to advance to the level of a legacy player is both impossible and frustrating

-Groggy