I paid USD$55 back in 2017-02, and played a little at the time, but just didn't get it. I came back to it in ~2019, but again it felt like a high barrier, requ

I paid USD$55 back in 2017-02, and played a little at the time, but just didn't get it. I came back to it in ~2019, but again it felt like a high barrier, requiring the kind of esoteric knowledge you'd get if you'd been consistently tracking all the updates to really enjoy. (And there was a LOT of email updates about the project.) Also what felt like heavy selling on new spacecraft and addons, while I remained confused about what you're actually meant to do in the game, frustrated by the sandbox mechanics & limitations, bewildered by how resilient my ship was and what happened if it was destroyed (pricing was mostly around buying ships, I believe). I now suspect persistent MMOG universes just aren't my thing.