It’s always funny to me, but many of the people that complain about GDKP buyers not earning their gear, or whatever other argument there is, always want to talk about social structures. And they also tend to, in my experience, be the same ones going into threads about how hard it is to get into PUGs because of parsing mentality telling them to get good and nobody deserves to get carried.
Seems like the issue isn’t that they dislike people buying gear so much as they just want people they don’t like to not have a place in WoW. How very “social” of them.
This is quite a reach. We’ve all had to deal with many decisions for the better of the community. There are some that I agree with and some that I don’t.
They called this ban an experiment for good reason, and until we hear about the results of this experiment, I don’t see any issues with expressing any views and feedback.
This isn’t about what you believe versus what Blizzard wants for the game. They make the rules. You can see by the amount of responses that GDKP is very much still unwelcomed by the majority of the community here. There are ~3 of you in here repeatedly posting trying to say that there is a demand for GDKP. There isn’t.
Again, Blizzard doesn’t need to provide you with any data or even any feedback. If they decide that the game is healthier with GDKPs (which it’s clearly not) they would reverse the policy.
You realize that a lot of the threads were, “because I can’t do GDKP to buy my gear, I can no longer find a group. Ignore my gray parses, my lack of bringing consumables, or refusal to learn the fights beforehand.”
You’ll also notice that we don’t see these threads anymore. It’s been awhile since the cry of “gatekeeping” rang out.
It’s really not. Blizzard has the data and has said that the ban has helped them crack down on illicit transactions. That’s the result. You don’t believe them based on zero evidence simply because you don’t want to believe them.
Their whole catalogue at this point, to be honest.
Retail seems like it’s still going okay, definitely a lot better than games like D4 and OW2, but they for sure traded a bit of the player experience for that sweet sweet MTX money: skins, boosts, etc.
Yeah, it’s evident with how many of them are trying to close the discussion and even go as far as saying that I’m entitled for expressing my views and thoughts during an on-going experiment.
If this was no longer an experiment, I’d deal with it, but that’s not possible unless Blizzard declares that it no longer is.
I agree with most of your points. Most of the issue that I have with this GDKP ban is that it’s the most low-effort “solution” possible.
There’s some interesting stuff out there on why we lost GMs. One of the reasons was that we had GMs doing goofy events and RPing while others handled tickets.
I saw a lot of the discussion surrounding this during the announcement and after, not once did I ever see such a thread. What you are doing is lying through paraphrase. You are ascribing what you personally feel about another person’s words and relaying it after. It’s a gross practice.
We still see it all the time. Again, even streamers and youtubers are making videos about it. But once again, the cry of “But social structures” stops mattering the moment it’s about people you don’t care about. Grey parsers are still palyers, and they still exist in the system. You either care about social structures or you don’t. You can’t pick and choose when it’s convenient.
That sounds like bad management. But again, it’s easier to automate away positions and increase shareholder revenue than to manage users. It’s not like this is a unique issue with Blizzard. We are literally seeing the entire industry complaining about corporate destruction of gaming.
Insert Jerry shaking hands with Jerry clones gif here. Again, look at the thread and every GDKP thread and realize that you’re on an island here. It’s getting sad really.
You had me think you were a smart individual before you said this. Now you sound just like another gray parser that wants non gray parsers to carry him.
