I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.
Do you have a similar game?
It was certainly somewhat P2W since the beginning but it wasn’t until Clan Wars 2 that it felt fully P2W for me. Before that you only needed one maxed deck which didn’t take that long. Then came lvl14, then champions and lvl 15. Now evolutions are the next broken P2W mechanic. I haven’t financially supported the game in years but someone must be giving them money and reinforcing these awful decisions.