Originally by: Nemoto

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In the near future, there will be no new players coming into EVE, people will stay away from EVE knowing that you need loads of accounts in order to even compete.

The majority who play EVE will have 5 EVE accounts or more, this will be the bare minimum requirement.

The reason for all of this? Timecodes for isk, it seems to good to be true, it cuts out ebay, it allows people to be able to buy their way into EVE with their real life wealth (i thought most people are against this 100%?) The real cash from this deal goes straight into CCPs pocket.

I've been thinking hard about this, like i said, it semes to good to be true, there has to be equally bad downsides that we arnt seeing.

Lots of players are capable of earning 300m in a week, some players are even profiting that per day, and when we start to talk of players with multiple accounts, the number doubles and even triples or more.

People who earn this much isk are more than likely going to use their isk to purchase timecodes to pay for their account, but why stop there when they could use that isk to pay for more accounts and then make even more isk? When will they stop using their isk in order to pay for more accounts so that they can make even more?

Yes this will make the number of subs go up by +1 for every extra alt account someone opens up, but how is this going to effect EVE? Does CCP really want everyone having lots of alt accounts, is this how they envision EVE?

This will scare away possible new players, it will be hard to complete against the alt masters of eve, and just as hard to compete against the people who are supplying the altmasters with timecodes, because they are getting huge sums of isk by using their real life wealth.

I really can see EVE turning into a game where the majority of players have 5-10 accounts, new players dont exist (not for long, anyway)

Sure this is getting CCP some extra accounts for now, but in the long run this could completely destroy EVE (or at least turn it into an alt fest with 100,000 subs but only 10,000 actual players, and of cours,e this number would go down due to the lack of real new players)

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