Re: I apreciate all the emails you guys send me
Personally, the subscription model works fine for me.
The freemium model is OK for getting drones into the game to build up NIC and mine resources. Playing a game for free doesn't give any incentive for logging or building any long term relations. The majority (your mileage may very) of free players are going to be casual players that log in a few hours a week every so often. The issue is the game isn't casual friendly, so you'll have a stream of new players coming in asking the same questions, which will be ignored eventually, roaming around on alpha for a while until they get ganked by an ewar npc, log out and never return. The small portion of players that are going to stick around, will pay a small monthly sub.
So the trial does exactly the same thing as a free to play model without all the crap of bored free players just out to grief people for lulz.