Lets say it is sunny outside and you do not want to get sunburned. So you put sunscreen on. But then you also spend time in the shade. You can do more than one action to achieve a goal.
Also the changes have separate purposes.
Banning gdkp helps prevent gold laundering
The AH and trade restirctions help blizzard have more time to identify bots and ban them before they can efficiently sell their gold or effect the economy.
Lets say you have a bot account set up.
After 5 days it makes 2000g.
Then you go on the bought account, buy flasks, then sell them cheap to your main account, buying 2k gold worth of consumes, and selling them to your main for 10g.
The AH, trade, and mail restrictions helps prevent this type of thing.
I fail to see how GDKP even promotes “laundering”
Everyone in the raid will notice that a certain person was given a larger cut and chaos would ensue.
Once again this is a point brought up by people who DO NOT know how GDKPs work.
Trade restrictions are there because it’s automated.
The gdkp ban is there because it’s easier and cheaper than hiring GMs.
This is blizzard we are talking about it really isn’t hard to decipher their intentions.
The people who bought gold are still buying gold, they haven’t stopped because there is bis on the auction house, they don’t farm gold for these expensive consumes as enchants either.
The gdkp ban didn’t do anything.
It did get gdkp run spam out the way so I guess rmt is more hidden.
Are you dumb??? won with gold IE they bought it. A random equal chance for everyone isn’t the same as someone spending more gold to buy something. You shouldn’t be able to buy BOP items…
The trade off is, even if you lose the item, you still get rewarded with gold at the end. Its a better system in every way. Especially for PUGs and Alt raiding.
Players in a GDKP already have that equal chance to the gear since they participated in the raid, just like anyone else. They aren’t paying for the gear itself that they already have the right to. They’re paying to have priority on it.
The whole “buying” gear is a lie. Players can’t just buy gear directly from anywhere. They have to participate in the raid and earn it just like anyone else.
GDKP is a loot distribution system. GDKP is not a gear wholesale.
The gold is split throughout the entire raid. This would be a terrible way to accomplish that, and would actually be a gold loss. The AH would be the safest and easiest way to “clean” gold.
RMT is everywhere, the demonization of a loot system is nonsense.
No, it’s easier to track with their automation because there are less trades.
They don’t have the data of anything, they use PR saving face posts to act like what their doing is working, it isn’t.
The people who buy gold are still buying gold, point blank full stop.
The restrictions for trades were a good thing but it’s also automated and all its going to do is cause the economy to be destroyed because there is going to be so much gold on the server that supply can’t keep up with demand because no more bots, this phase is already costs 60+ gold per raid which is more than my WOTLK raids.
