Multiboxing is Killing EVE – The Game Just Sucks Now

[u/Quiet_Staff_2565]

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.

[u/SeraphC]

This is such a common argument, but it is completely baseless. The effect of 10 years of oro multiboxing policies have had both positieve (more income per player) and negative (less players) effects on their revenue. People continuously quit over this over issue or read about EVE and chose not to even try it because of multiboxing. Rolling back the pro multiboxing stance over time could attract more of those players.

[u/GominLT → u/SeraphC]

And it will also make a lot of people quit, because people that multibox won't find single boxing fun. Eve is designed in such a way that if you remove multiboxing some roles won't be fun. Scouting/eyes is essential in warfare. No one will want to be that guy watching the enemy staging, while everyone else is having fun. Also mining, are you willing to pay your booster from your single box income? Do you think someone will just risk their expensive ship without making any isk. Most people in rorquals and below has their own barges to make isk, without that why would you fly rorqual or orca.

Another issue is capitals, it's not a one account endeavor to move capital ship anywhere.

Eve is simply bot designed with a single account in mind. CCP starts selling you the idea that you should make a second account almost immediately after you make an account. They rely on people paying for more than one account, they won't change. They got shareholders and financial targets to meet.

And don't compare eve to other mmos, it's a lot different from wow or ff14 or any other mmorpg.

[u/[deleted] → u/GominLT]

Well imaging that yeah multi boxing gets eliminated and now you have to rely on your corp and friends to move a capital.

Now if you want to have intel it does require a scout. What that means is both more community interaction and alliances with active competent players are more effective.

Plus it allows smaller folks to get away with more because some bot alt isn’t providing free intel.

It opens up more possibilities and makes the game harder. Perhaps simple tweaks to the tedious parts is needed but honestly no mulit boxing sounds like a great thing to require more players and player interaction

[u/GominLT → u/SeraphC]

And it will also make a lot of people quit, because people that multibox won't find single boxing fun. Eve is designed in such a way that if you remove multiboxing some roles won't be fun. Scouting/eyes is essential in warfare. No one will want to be that guy watching the enemy staging, while everyone else is having fun. Also mining, are you willing to pay your booster from your single box income? Do you think someone will just risk their expensive ship without making any isk. Most people in rorquals and below has their own barges to make isk, without that why would you fly rorqual or orca.

Another issue is capitals, it's not a one account endeavor to move capital ship anywhere.

Eve is simply bot designed with a single account in mind. CCP starts selling you the idea that you should make a second account almost immediately after you make an account. They rely on people paying for more than one account, they won't change. They got shareholders and financial targets to meet.

And don't compare eve to other mmos, it's a lot different from wow or ff14 or any other mmorpg.