Doesn't that break the whole point of paying accounts? (Gaming)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Friday, February 28, 2014, 09:51 (3924 days ago) @ Xenos

I dunno, there's an awful lot of EVE players paying for multiple accounts. If CCP suddenly had all those players go down to just 1 account... I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't affect their income drastically. The guy who got me into it used to run 7 separate PCs, with separate monitors, each running a different account. And while not every EVE player is that extreme, it's far from unheard of in that particular community. I'd almost say it's common. My roommate runs... 3 or 4 accounts, I think?

Also, PLEX doesn't really factor in. It may have not cost real-life money to the person redeeming it, but they bought it in-game from someone else down the line who DID buy it. So somewhere along the way, CCP got paid for that game time.

Of course, I don't think that sort of activity is probably as common in most games as it is in EVE. So the multiple accounts issue might not be as critical for other developers.

And no, I don't play anymore. I found that I just wasn't playing it right (I was a total carebear, and never did anything with anyone), and it didn't make sense for me to keep paying for an MMO that I was essentially treating as a large single player game.