Because they don’t need to. They’re a business. They can make whatever decisions they want and you can either choose to buy their product or not.
Realistically they could’ve just said “we don’t like it” and the result is the same.
So the only path you have is to suck it up and unsub if it really bothers you so much.
Oh the video where they said that GDKPers weren’t spamming the forums as much and used that as evidence that it is going okay? Or the part where they said it is very early days, but offered some caveated opinions?
What “documented” information am I glossing over? Or are we back to inventing facts again?
Or, you know…post feedback on the forums that are specifically here for this sort of discussion.
At this point you’re the one inventing facts, cause the video where they announced it was before the change was implemented in. How, then, could they say it’s going well cause nobody is posting about it?
At this point you’re either trolling or just very unintelligent.
Oh so you didnt watch the follow up video? Now who is ignorant?
It’s not at all the same with real life. This is a digital currency. They have the data and it can be tracked.
If the issue is that this increases the number of transactions, why not set some filters to ignore gold transactions in a raid environment?
If we want to believe what they say about GDKPs, then GDKPs should be the perfect place to trace illicit gold back to the gold sellers.
They don’t, you’re right.
But it also shows extreme contempt towards the player-base, not willing to show why something is being removed only shows the player-base they mean little to nothing to them.
Many have quit and many more will, because they don’t have the player’s best interest at heart…
Sounds like an AmEx to me, and yet electronic payments are used to launder money every day.
Then join the others and quit.
They’re allowed to not like aspects of their own game and change them.
It’s their whole job.
No, it isn’t. Their job is to build the game that the players want. And the players clearly want GDKP. If they didnt, why would it dominate all versions of classic wow?
Are you comparing Blizzard to banks that withhold personal information for confidentiality?
It… doesnt?
And until such a time as they decide to vote publicly, you can only speak for yourself and the three other people hellbent on agreeing with you in this point.
The confirmation bias is strong here.
Same goes for you, what’s your point? You realize this is a forum right?
Yes. Cause if there is money to be made, and there is, people will find a way. And if people can find a way to defraud a bank and launder money via very traceable card transactions, they can find a way to do it in a video game.
Lol, you keep on shilling for the multi-billion dollar company that proved they don’t actually care about any of us.
But don’t worry though, the 9th my sub ends… the community here is trash, bunch of old men still acting like teenagers and incapable of improvement or change… and I’ve grown tired and found an MMO that is far better.
Either way, enjoy yourself, I will do the same.
LOL are we still talking about GDKPs?
Thanks for the laugh.
Laundering money IRL is nothing like this. They control everything including the literal world of warcraft. If they wanted to stop bots they could easily do it.
Force a captcha after 4 hours of continuous play.
Add breaking changes to common bot farming routes.
Limit the number of accounts connecting from the same IP
Require MFA/captcha for accounts connecting internationally
Block connections from commodity VPNs
Etc, etc, etc
TIL Blizzard can be defrauded by GDKPs.
Thanks for saying this, so many people just make blanket statements in regards to how GDKP makes tracking harder but I’ve till now never seen an example. I’d still expect it to be easy to filter just by adding some kinda flag for 10/20/40x players all receiving a similar amount of gold get filtered off the flag list but I still concede I have no real idea how any of it works behind the scenes.
This part I get where your coming from but I don’t think Blizzard should care about it. When the GDKP ban went into effect suddenly we saw people claiming to have gold “accidently” mailed to them. I duno but I think plausible deniability should be a non issue.
Almost all of my posts on the forums in my history are complaints about the current state of the game.
GDKP is just not about the game, at least not from a design standpoint; it’s about it’s impact on the economy and the effects is has on the integrity of the game and it’s ruleset.
What if players don’t like this and complain on the forums for four months straight kinda… like… about GDKP change?
It’s the people chipping into the pot in small intervals at a time as they bid on gear that have to be looked into, not typically the dispersion of the pot afterwards. Which means if a 25-man ICC has two prominent gold-buyers but 19 people actively are bidding on gear, it’s harder to detect behind the 17-person smokescreen in the raid.
I’m sure. 
At the end of the day they’re still showing us nothing but contempt with their unwillingness to show anything that could be deemed as proof, it could do no harm but I don’t think they ever had anything on it… but developers always tend to go downhill once they stop being player first, we all know blizzard is proof it.