When this game was new I found it when I was searching in vain for new space sims and some stupid magazine had it listed as a space game that lets you pilot a ship.
But it had throwing stars, so I stayed until my kids got into it and I discovered the spawn-for-plat mechanics, so we dropped it, because I'm just not doing that. I don't mind paying for things I like, but that's just too on the nose, especially when the servers didn't seem to like all of us connecting at the same time back then and the lag/glitch deaths started adding up.
And then years later I came back, my problem with it was long resolved, and railjack was in the game so I actually got to fly a spaceship after all.