With Eve gone, only sub based MMOs left are FFXIV and WoW

[sydh]

EVE is not going full F2P. It's getting a very very limited free tier. All it really is can be thought of as a non-time gated trial for a paid game. You know how XIV gets a free trial for 14 days and you have tons of restrictions? Well it's that with no time limit. The EVE version is just as heavily capped in what you can do.

(XIV trial restrictions) http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...5382&kid=70929
(EVE Alpha Clone restrictions) https://community.eveonline.com/news...to-eve-online/


EVE, Alpha Clone (F2P account) restrictions.
Alpha State, on the other hand, will be much different. The most important thing to know about Alpha clones is that they may only use a specific set of skills and skill levels. To begin with, we are planning that the Alpha skill set will be focused on using tech one Frigates, Destroyers and Cruisers. Alpha clones will only be able to use ship and weapon skills native to their faction. If you have skills trained on a character in Alpha State, which are not part of the Alpha skill set, those skills will be locked and unusable until Omega state is reactivated. Characters will start the game with the same 400,000 skill points as they do now and will be able to train freely within the Alpha list. A fully trained Alpha will have roughly 5 million skill points. You can find the full Alpha list in the Q&A below the blog.

If you compared the F2P bolded skill point restrictions to the normal paid version (Omega Clone) you can see how limited it is one part of it is. Right now you can get up to well over 500 million skill points. EVE, for the most part is a game about time. The time it takes for you to train up new skills to pilot better ships. No matter how much time you play past the 5 million mark you will never progress in your skills or what you can fly.