The evidence I would posit is that Blizzard has outright stated that their GDKP ban in SOD was successful, hence why they did the same in Anniversary.
“Blizzard said so!” The extremely low pop on SoD contradicts this
Whether the GDKP ban was successful at stymying RMT is irrelevant to the ongoing population or popularity of SOD. If people don’t like or don’t want to play SOD that’s a different discussion.
hundred of thousands of lost raiders the week the ban went into place must have been random
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Since my last post I’ve run one(1) MC Pug and I got one(1) piece of a gear.
I now have better gear than the OP.
Let me guess, another claim you’ll be unable to prove and will simply tell me to look it up myself, and when I do like last time it will simply show data that completely contradicts your original claim?
ironforge.pro/population/sod/overall/
Ban announced on the 29th, 40k lost raiders
Feb 8th ban goes into effect, 300k lost raiders from p1 peak
Peak p2(since you will say the pop drop was from people leveling not raiding) 50k lower than the lowest point of p1.
After the ban the game bled raiders in every single phase until stagnating around 50k, about half the cata population.
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I 'm going to guess…
American
Considering the US in front of forums.blizzard I would bet thats the majority here
Well yes. I realised it was a safe bet.
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And you’ve not considered that it could simply be that SOD is boring/sucks? Correlation is not causation.
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“Its just a coincidence just believe what blizzard says guys!!1!!”
That’s not how dkp works
So by your logic, Era should still be more popular than Anniversary, as GDKP is not currently banned there.
…and yet Era is currently in a lull because of Anniversary.
Hm…something not adding up here.
Thats not my logic, unchanging wow servers with no new content are going to be low pop regardless of the presence of gdkp. Many people who play on era would agree that gdkp is the only thing keeping it alive.
Man those goalposts moved fast.
So era could just be currently unpopular because a wide variety of reasons, but SOD’s unpopularity is definitely due to GDKP. 100%.
Your cognitive dissonance is showing.
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MC is always all caster loot.
I’ve managed 2 pieces of Nightslayer and my tier 2 helm but it’s going to be difficult to get a weapon when they never drop.
SoD is boring/sucks
Signed,
Phase 1 enjoyer
SoD sucking and the gdkp ban both contributed, no one is saying its only one thing chud
Frankly, if you left the game because of no GDKP, good riddance 