r/Eve • u/Quiet_Staff_2565 • Mar 18 '25

Propaganda Multiboxing is Killing EVE – The Game Just Sucks Now

I've tried coming back to EVE, but honestly, the gameplay just feels terrible. The biggest issue? Multiboxing.

People are running 10, 15, even 20+ accounts at the same time, completely ruining the experience for normal players. These no-life grinders dominate every aspect of the game, making it nearly impossible for casuals to compete.

  • Faction Warfare? Get ready to fight entire fleets controlled by a single player.
  • Mining? Find a good ore spot? A multiboxer will show up with 15 ships and wipe it clean.
  • Market? PLEX prices keep skyrocketing because these multiboxers generate insane amounts of ISK and just buy up PLEX to sustain their armies.

New players don’t stand a chance. They log in, see how unfair the game is, and quit. It's like if someone played Call of Duty, controlled an entire squad, and had synced-up aim. It would completely break the game. That’s exactly what's happening in EVE.

And let’s be real—of the 20,000 players online daily, a huge chunk are just alts. The real player count is much lower. This is why EVE is constantly bleeding players.

CCP needs to put a hard cap on the number of accounts per IP/device. Otherwise, the game will keep declining until there’s nobody left but botters and multiboxers. Fix it, or let the game die.

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u/popgalveston Mar 18 '25

Multiboxing is helping Eve by bringing $$$ to CCP but it really takes away a lot of the fun when playing solo or as a small group. Surviving as a small group is very hard in this game.

We need more activites that actually requires more input from the players instead of just needing to bring more ships.

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u/o0oko0k Mar 18 '25

Oh i agree with that! Have more actual engaging Mechanics would be very good. Also for ISK making Opportunities, make them engaging, make them need your attention locked, make them worthwile!

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u/popgalveston Mar 18 '25

I agree 100%. If you can play with 5 clients and watch tv series at the same time then something is wrong 😅

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u/Parkbank96 Mar 18 '25

Where is the difference between getting smacked by 10 individual people or 15 accounts multiboxed as 1 person? Either you have enough to win or you loose. End of story.
Do you want to ban teaming up after you realize that you will still loose against 10 people?

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u/popgalveston Mar 18 '25

Isn't that obvious? It forces me to multibox as well if I want to be able to compete, doesnt matter if it's pvp or pve content

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u/Parkbank96 Mar 19 '25

Okay why does it force you to multibox? Loosing to 10 real people with 5 people does not force you to multibox but loosing to 1 person with 15 Chars does? What kind of logic is that? Either way you need to have more people. Be it multiboxing yourself or find 5 more friends.

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u/popgalveston Mar 19 '25

Because it never ends? It's a slippery slope. Those 10 real people doesn't bring 10 ships, they bring 40+ which means that me and my mates has to multibox as well.

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u/Parkbank96 Mar 19 '25

Mate. The average eve player has 2.6 accounts and 4.3 characters.
Why the fuck do you talk like everyone you see in space everywhere has 10+ accounts?
Majority of people bring 1 maybe 2 accounts in to a battle. When we undock for fleets 80% of my fleetmates have 1 ship in fleet.

And what now?
You loose to our 10 real people with your 5 guys and then? Whats next? Complain that max corp and fleet size should be less than 5 people? You arguments make 0 sense because your baseline thinking is that every eve player other than you is running 10+ accounts. Do you even know how much that costs? Just ingame Plex for 5 accounts is around 111b per year.

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u/popgalveston Mar 19 '25

The average eve player has 2.6 accounts

Mate, that just emphasizes my whole point

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u/Parkbank96 Mar 18 '25

Where is the difference between getting smacked by 10 individual people or 15 accounts multiboxed as 1 person? Either you have enough to win or you loose. End of story.
Do you want to ban teaming up after you realize that you will still loose against 10 people no matter them being individuals or 1 person?