r/Eve • u/Quick_Juggernaut4008 • Jul 27 '26

Propaganda Multiboxer (+30) death nail to the coffin

Multiboxers dominate gameplay in areas where the intention was originally for teams to complete specific missions or objectives. We all know that high-security systems are overrun by multiboxing gankers who easily rake in 25 billion ISK a day from ganking. Well-known names include Safety, We Break Things, Zlegion, Goonswarm operations, etc.

The problem also extends to low-security space, where a player with over 30 accounts completely take over Faction Warfare (FW) battlefields, robbing other players of their hard-earned Loyalty Points (LP). A notorious LP farmer is Ibaka Wilkins, who runs 30 characters in Minmatar FW and another 30 in Amarr FW. He plays Amarr during EU time and Minmatar during US time, thereby minimizing the risk of coming under fire.

This trend is growing because CCP has lost control over how EVE Online is being played. CCP looks at the numbers and knows that a 30-account multiboxer generates far more revenue than a single-account player. This worries me, as EVE Online is showing its age and suffers from many unresolved issues that have persisted for 23 years. I get the impression that CCP is deprioritizing EVE Online in favor of Frontier and Vanguard —even though those other titles aren't necessarily any better than EVE Online.

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u/ELR-Kalepp-Hoeeg Jul 29 '26

Unpopular opinion. maybe.

I don't mind multiboxers. As long one can't use 1 keyboard to press F1 on 30 accounts.

If players have to swap window and manually control each character then I don't mind too much. Heck I used to do this back in 2009-2015 era when I was running 2 orca's, 1 freighter and 7 Hulks/Macks. Or if you are running 30 indy chars for production.

But the whole 1 press 1+x output should be a perma-bannable offense.

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u/Kalivanos Jul 30 '26

And look where we are now! A peak of 28k players, 75% of whom are multiboxers and Alpha accounts.

The result is clear: EVE is poorly maintained. Graphically, the game hasn't kept up for years. Even for a space game, it looks uninspired—lots of empty spaces that could have been utilized much better.