While a lot of players are complaining about the price because THEY have to pay more there’s a lot of us who see the bigger effects of that as well.
Eve is a sandbox which means A LOT of the content comes from interacting with other players.
Even if you play mostly solo you’re probably still buying and selling things from / to other players.
In a game like WoW for example you could just play with your small group of 5 / 20 people and do all the content they release.
Eve isn’t like that, the game becomes a lot better the more players there are. On top of that it’s (almost) a global server so there’s no “migrating to a better populated realm”.
So you rely on people all over the world to make the game feel alive.
Price increases will lower subbed accounts. These might be people you shoot at, who farm the materials for ships or who build ships.
All this to say that there’s a tipping point where content dries up so much that people consider the game dead. Even IF the game is still profitable at that point it’s no longer the game you used to play as mechanics will have to be introduced to make up for all the people who left.
While players in other MMOs are only a source of income they’re vital in Eve to make the game work.
A price increase for a product that’s been at the same price for 17 years shouldn’t be a huge deal it is if you’re relying on your customers for more than just their money.
We’ve already seen what the game is like when a lot of people stop logging in during blackout.
So even though a lot of us can easily afford the added cost we’re still worried what this will do to the game when people who can’t afford to run their (alt) accounts start unsubbing.