EVE General Discussion

You can't buy the knowledge required to play the game well, so no, it's not.

It's 1 thing to have all the skills as a new player but its another thing to know how they all work. Experience in the game should still win over the pay to win noob

Skill injectors are not P2W in the same way plex is not. Both are ways of getting something everybody can get faster. Pay to win would be if there was a ship that was better than all of the other ships of its class that you could only buy with real life money.

So slow.

If the P stands for Post

Yes

There are about a million threads you could read to get all the answers (and a whole lot of commentary/ranting), personally, I'd start with the Dev Blog post about the feature and the follow-up threads after the skill extractors/injectors were released.

That said, simply put, no. It does not make EVE Online any different.

The dumber (AFK?) miners/ratters still get hot dropped.
People who pay attention to local and intel channels remain safe.
While the age of a character never really mattered in my mind (I've personally got 7 year old characters with starting skill points, and 2 year old characters with tens of millions) the only relevant change here is that a 1 or 2 day old character *can* light a cyno from a stealth bomber. This means that rather than treating the day-old neutral in local as a passive threat (scout), you treat them more as an active threat (hot dropper; move to the next system over, or next constellation over, if you want to PVE).

I have yet to use a skill injector on any of my characters - but I have bought a number of extractors to trim out unwanted/unneeded skills on a couple. I sold one injector to off-set the cost of the extractors I bought and I'm holding on to the rest for now.

I believe a lot of players like the idea of stream-lining their characters for what they want to do with them, and having the ability reallocate your SP, even if it might be at a loss, is still better than having skills you never use trained to level 5.

Plus, like everyone says, SP does not equal playing ability.

If you really believe that having more SP than another person is the predominant factor in who wins a fight, then trying to explain to you why Skill Injectors are not P2W is a futile effort.

Eve is now P2W, pay to welp ships you have no business flying.

Saw a new player using a Paladin to rat in a C2 wormhole system recently, as you can guess it didn't end well for him.

You can't win eve. Eve is a sandbox.

What is the difference between skill injectors and buying a character with the needed skills from the character bazaar? Before the injectors I could just buy and sell Plex then use the isk to purchase someone else's preskilled character. So really, what changed?

The cost maybe and that you inject skills to a character of your choosing instead of getting a premade character. Still, if you consider buying skills as pay-to-win, then the character bazaar allowed for that option long before injectors.