[dekz]

> for people not familiar with EVE: Jita is the main trade hub of the game. Since EVE only has one server, that makes Jita the de-facto capital of the game, and it's main system. There are other simmilar (but smaller) trade hubs (Amarr and Rens, among others), and those are seeing protests as well. Those systems have a hard limit to their population, and when it's capped, the gates close. The protests seem to have capped both Amarr and Jita, and are therefore stopping people from entering the picketed systems, slowing down the player-driven market inside them.

http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/pc/63552-eve-online-virtua...

[Periodic]

This has a much bigger impact than canceling your own subscription. It raises the danger that you might impact other players to quit. If I were a new player and I found that the servers were too clogged over protests, I might be inclined not to continue. If I were a more casual player, I might go outside, go play another game, or do something else and find I have better things to do than play Eve every night.

This is actually how I quit MMOs in college. When it started to feel like a job when I logged in every evening due to the commitments the game placed on a guild for "serious progression" I stopped logging into avoid it. Then I realized fairly quickly that were many other things I'd rather be doing and I cancelled.

Get someone to stop logging in for a week and you could very well lose them.