I remember the early days, I left the FA and ended up joining M0o - fun times. Then as M0o was part of the early BOB along with evol ended up in RKK for many years, then moved onto PL years before they became FOTM, now just mess with low sec corp/alliance mostly counting my SP during skill changes (190m ;).

But reason it is fun is it is diverce, more open than other open games and it involves spaceships.

I also played Elite when it was out, so with that the only thing that will pull me away from eve will be death, or David Brabens new mulitplayer Elite game maybe.