Eath and Beyond stinks. I played the beta up until the last day. There's no player vs player, and you spend all day flying through space to get from point x to point y. One one mission I spent an 45-60 minutes flying from one planet to another and then once you get there you a guy tells you once sentance and then he says, "Go back to that planet you just came from" . Like I couldn't have just called the guy or something. Funny thing about the future is that everyone has there own space ship given to you by the government but NOBODY HAS ANY DAMN PHONES!
There are tons of bugs in the game. They seemed to have a "Well we're getting the game out by date X no matter what shape it's in" attitude. It's one of those games that has a lot of potential but isn't being implemented well. It's kind of like a multiplayer Privateer only with EVERYTHING that's cool about Privateer taken out.
Edit: Oh yeah and when I say flying through space I mean clicking on a nav point and hitting go and waiting 10 minutes. Then watching the starts streak by. Reach nav point, Warp, select new nav point, wait 10 minutes, warp, repeat. You also can't really leave the room while all this pointlessly long space travel is going on because you can be pulled out of warp and killed by pirates and aliens.
Plus it's $13 a month on top of the X dollars to but the game.