I bought the game last week, so far have been content with the flying aspect of the game, looking forward to the "New Horizons" mod which will allow you to land on planets, It's a gorgeous (runs at max settings on my 2013 almost a gamer laptop) Playing with decent headphones and in the dark, I personally get a sense of Immersion that I can't recall feeling on EVE and STO, I appreciate the attention to detail in this game... however...
The game does feel incomplete, being permanently entombed in your ship, wielded to your pilots chair throws a wet towel on the experience. The ability to land on Rocky Moons will help this somewhat in the upcoming expansion, but I can only hope the end goal is the ability to walk around stations, planets, even the interior of your ship and interact with everything to a degree. I know that something like this would be really difficult to implement, and will take quite some time, Hopefully interest doesn't wane to the point that the game never gets finished. Final thoughts: It's a little lean but what meat is there is delicious. The Free Demo needs to be reworked, It really gives no sense to what the game is to a curious outsider, who may be mulling this over....