With the officially sanctioned trading of in game money (isk) for monthly subscriptions, most of the established players I meet haven't paid CCP any real money in ages. Since skill leveling is almost completely real time based, new toons have a hard time competing against characters created even a year earlier. This of course encourages new players to try to even the playing field by buying isk either sanctioned or not. So now you have a community where the most influential players have the ear of developers (or are the developers themselves) but don't contribute to the revenues of CCP. Some separation needs to occur.