Blizzard almost never gives good explanations or reasons for the things they do. But “banning gdkps in sod is because of rmt crackdowns” really is the best guess we can make without a blizzard explanation. To say it’s not is really the “dumb monkey brain take”.
What? Did people not even read the Blue post about the ban?
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I have used gdkps in every version of classic so far and am in no way anti gdkp. With that said I fully believe there is some rampant RMT in them, especially the hosted ones that are ran dozens of times a week making hundreds of thousands of gold in host cut.
Now is this the only RMT avenue, no. Is every gdkp player involved in RMT or even the majority, no and I don’t believe so to the second part. Would banning gdkp stop RMT, no. So because of the above should we pretend most gdkps are pure and innocent, no.
Besides the quote above, which completely humiliates you, there was an interview from a week ago where Aggrend said…
“It’s probably a little bit too soon to say, but I think my knee-jerk initial reaction of playing the game on multiple servers a lot is yeah, I’ve noticed a lot less advertisements and things like that. It’s given us the opportunity to crack down on things a little bit more easily. Not just gold selling and botting but gold buying."
“GDKP is an excellent way to launder money and an excellent way to obfuscate the movement of illicit gold. Without that sort of shield, it’s making it a lot easier for us to clean up other things and be a little bit more steadfast about other aspects of the economy.”
Oh, look at that. GDKP is riddled with RMT, and used to launder illegal money. The ban makes it easier to ban gold buyers. Straight from Blizzard.
And maybe don’t resort to those ridiculously silly insults you put in all your posts. It only weakens your position.
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Nah, sentimental value alone. Past that I don’t really care. 
Keep in mind the two servers I play on are Alliance on Westfall and Horde on Mankrik; your description is pretty accurate of both.
I have before; did a little in Rift years ago, sort of did in FFXIV but it’s all previous expansion raids which get added to the Duty Finder so you can do them at any level past the level cap of the expansion they were in AND unlocking them in the first place, and did Kara pretty much every week in TBCC until I both finished the Nightbane chain and got Exalted with Violet Eye…mostly because my guild couldn’t really get farther than that by the time I was actually 70 and had done enough stuff to tag along.
There’s an anecdote I go back to whenever someone points out that a newcomer can’t offer an opinion: WAY back in the early 2010s, Extra Credits made an episode where the writer at the time, James Portnow, mentioned a consulting job he had once where the people designing the game had someone thought that the way to open your character’s inventory was, no joke, TRIPLE-CLICKING the character instead of something simple like, you know, “I.” They’d gotten so used to doing it that it just made sense to them.
Just because someone who hasn’t spent years immersed in a setting mentions that flaws exist in that setting doesn’t make their opinion invalid, as much as that group would prefer so they can keep going down what could potentially be a dead end; if it’s well reasoned-out it might actually improve things and make a better experience for everyone.
Pretty sure people aren’t going to head to a gold seller so they can buy a few stacks of Frostweave or buy the Tundra Mammoth when easier methods exist for both of those. Going for epeen, on the other hand, I can see the extremely insecure people with more money than sense doing that without question.
So you pretty much didn’t raid, you didn’t do SSC, TK, BT, Mt Hyjal, ZA or SWP at all during TBC?
lol
jeez
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Blizzard is only lying when it doesn’t fit their argument.
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jeez is right. I don’t care if zaalg posted something or changed his mind in the past. He made a valuable contribution to this thread by linking a blue post I’d forgotten I read. What valuable contribution have you made in the past year? Not a dam thing imo.
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When did a loot system based off a rng coin flip become a skill? That is hilarious. I found the person who is just typing…to type
Indeed. The powerful wrist maneuver of swiping a credit card takes far more skill.
Unlike the bored old men on this forum, I’m actually interested in helping people and providing facts while calling out bad actors (you, Zaalg.)
I had you ignored for over a year but I recently unblocked everyone for a fresh start. It was a mistake in nearly every case. Back on block with you.
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Considering Aggrend also claimed that people are not getting falsely banned just by being mailed gold at random, and then people claim they are and then appeal and get unbanned, I would say take anything Aggrend says with a massive grain of salt.
how did they ban them in sod?
Wait
1: well written.
2: is fey/zaal/yehmi the same person? (they post at the same time and do brown nose each other)
Nope, we just meme because you guys have -10 IQ.
Alts generally don’t post between 3 alts within 1s. Thats just an normal conversation between humans.
Besides, Fey is a boomer (no hate) and you can read that from the way they write. I would be an impressive person that can write in 3 different ways.
no idiot i was asking because del called fey zaalg but your comment proves your idiocy and inability to read get back in your short bus.
I’m pretty sure everyone posting on the forum right now is me. That movie Split was based on me, actually.
I think you must be part of me too. So that was a mean thing for me to say about me about another me. 
there’s so much gold in the economy the vendor prices don’t matter
buying gold has 1 purpose, gdkps
Del never mentioned me.