I left Wow, mainly due to being let down in the expansion, Lich was again more of the same as BC was, Kara was replaced with Naxx, but it was all basicly the same, another grind, even with 5xdruids it was limited entertainment for great amounts of effort and a huge time sink.

Eve's real time training, and essentially no end game is a huge draw for me, I box simply because I can. As in any MMO game a group of characters is often more powerful then a solo character, the same is true in Eve, weither you setup your group to run missions or to mine, it's incredibly handy having 3-5 accounts running at any one time.

"I box, because I can", this is very hard to deny, having met so many assclowns in Wow with pickup groups and having idiots ninja loot items, or just flat out partying with hunters that think every freaken item in game is made solely for them. This was a great excuse to buy a few extra accounts and learn to become a multiboxer, I've been boxing since I first started playing FFXI online, it didn't take long to figure out how fast you could level if you had a perm healer standing behind your tank all the time healing you....hence began my boxing career, being limited only at first by the number of computers in my house..and then much later that limitation was taken away as software became avaliable to let us run multiple copies of our games all on the same machine and macro between them to command our boxing alts.

Eve is very much a boxable game, allowing you to accomplish so much with just some decent planning and a few accounts. Especially in regards to mining, as a solo player I used to sneak into 0.0 or 0.3 areas and try and mine up those juicy roids that were worth small fortunes, only to be quickly discoverd and podded by some ruthless pirate. Now using 5 accounts, I can freely move into those same 0.0 to 0.3 zones and feel safe and secure....I like to pretend to be a macro farmer and let the pirates get right ontop of me now, before I activate my battleship and blow them into next week.

I think most boxers probably box for the same reasons....we want freedom, we want to do things at our own pace, and not be held down..ie: the frequent "guys i gotta go its dinner time" type messages you'd always hear in Wow just as you started that heroic dungeon after waiting an hour for everyone to fly there or what have you. I love the fact that boxing allows me to accomplish so much at once, and when I've had enough my alt's never bitch when I decide its time to log off and do something else.