I have been on the beta program and can say the followingFor: Has the potential to be a killer game. Its huge and looks stunning. It should handle 1000s of players. The highest I saw was 3600 in the beta.Against: Potential being the key. Even on the final beta I still got 100's of error dialogs per session I played and it was laggy on ISDN. The game can be slow and take ages to get around. Mining is dull because it takes too long and the market economy was not working well, not enough demand for goods. Had to exit and restart to switch between space and docking modes because the game would freeze. I never saw some features in the beta so I dont know how they can be tested. Far to buggy at the mo. Give it a month or so and then see what the community is saying about it.