Yeah I agree with Necrile, I mean, I played it for a few months, and the first day of the free trial got me hooked. I mean seriously;
When I started I was just chugging along minding my own business, and some guy asks me if I want a job helping him mine, and I'm like sure okay, and he gave me a new bigger ship with a larger cargo hold so I could mine more in one trip. After about an hour, we headed back to a space station, and a fleet of literally 50+ ships came from behind us, and blew the guy up, I was like oshit come on lil' chugga'! and tried to escape, but they left me anyway...
About 10 minutes later I met up with the guy in another spaceship (This one he had was bigger, like, it was about 300x bigger than mine, and Necrile can confirm this, ships really can get that big...) and gave me his old one, which was relatively bigger than mine, he invited me to a group, and we took a few spacegates around the map. When I got there, it was a fucking battlefield with hundreds of ships all flying around with their pew pew lasers shooting the fuck out of each other!
... That's when it happened... my first player kill! I was SO happy!
And that's how I started EVE... all this happened within like 2-3 hours of gameplay... fun as fuck. Not sure why I don't even play it anymore, might have to subscribe again sometime.