--Browsed forums
--Saw a post " A complete Newbies first week's experience."
--Clicked button to read post
--Saw player was still in starter corp
--Didnt read any further

I cant imagine the OP is very happy with game as he is missing out on the one of the largest aspects of the game. Teamwork.

I remember my first few days in game corp-less. I remember being excited about the prospects of the game but thinking it seemed empty. Then I made some friends. The game came alive and had meaning.

Rodger Wilcoe wrote:

Brazero wrote:

No gamecards, plex's or whatever you call it. If ppl can't pay, they should not play, period.

I agree. In real life terms a month-by-month subscription to Perpetuum is the cost of ~2 cups of coffee. If someone cannot afford that, I personally wonder how they can afford their computer, the electricity to run it or Internet access.

I disagree.
Both botting and RMT existed in EvE years before CCP allowed for a 'legal' way to exchange GTCs for ISK in a ruled forums section. And that was possible years before they introduced PLEXes ingame. In fact PLEXes allowed for a tighter and wider player based market and also helped a lot in fighting RMT. I know of several people that used to buy isks and actually switched to selling PLEXes.
The huge rise of botting activity was not due to PLEXes but to the ease of botting in EvE and the introduction of supercapitals.
If anything PLEXes have made it harder for ISK sellers (the price of ISK in the RMT market has become one third what it used to be before PLEXes because you would get more ISK for $ with plexes than by directly buying it).

As for "cannot pay" there are many reasons besides not having money. For example lack of a credit card: outside the USA and Canada, most people do not have credit cards. Looking at my family (grandparents, parents, uncles, brothers, and cousins, including all spouses) only two have a credit card (me and an uncle).

Besides, you are being robbed: I pay 80 cents for a coffee, that is I get more than 11 coffees for a month subscription.

Note: just google "perpetuum nic" and you'll see that the current RMT rate for NIC is equivalent to 5 million or more for the price of a month subscription depending on how much you buy. If the player base rises that cost will eventually go up (less than NIC for the same price), but a legal market of NIC for gametime would eventually bring it down (a 'PLEX' would eventually be much more than 5M NIC).