This is such a fallacious argument.
It’s like saying “we shouldn’t have a justice system, because crimes are still happening even when we have one”.
Yes, but they would be a lot less. Presumably. That’s why they are trying it out; to see how much of an impact it will have on gold buying and selling.
If you are so sure of yourself that this will change nothing, then why are you so scared of them testing it out?
Thats right up there with pot being a “gateway” drug.
People are littering in the streets, one of them was wearing a pink shirt, so let’s ban pink shirts.
I see you’re just attention seeking and you know full well that you’re arguing in bad faith just like every other gdkp advocate. Shame.
Yes, we’ll see. But also keep in mind the RMT connection is only part of the reason they’re being banned. It erodes the social structure of the game. At least to Blizz.
And that’s something we should also be able to observe.
no i fully believe GDKP and gold farming are stand alone things. the only connection is they both use the same currency. Both can and do exist without the other…banning one and expecting any outcome on the other is foolish.
That might be the worst analogy I’ve ever seen here. 
This is the worst take of all takes. There is nothing less noble about a GDKP than a pug. If GDKP removes social structure then so do pugs. They are identical in nature other than one is for an exchange of currency, but as far as socially speaking they are literally the same thing.
I t took them a long time to create a separate channel in retail for boosting services… I mean, I admit the warlock summon sales are more annoying and now mages will enter the game.
Well it demonstrates how silly banning GDKP’s is so yeah it’s bad for GDKP haters 
How do you cope with this?
Just gonna claim you know better than the people with the metrics to know these things?
i get annoyed by spam but i wouldn’t ever want blizzard to step in and ban things or people to fix it. I can use the ignore feature like a mature adult.
You screwed up the analogy. Pink shirts don’t incentivize littering on the streets.
yes…that’s exactly what i’m saying. Blizzard lost their credibility long ago…and continues to shovel dirt on itself every year. I put zero faith in about 95% of the things they claim.
I guess we’ll see in phase 2 whether there’s any truth to that or not. Or if this has as little merit as any of their other claims about the things they do to combat RMT/botting.
Well you’re full of beans mister, that’s a nonsense stance to take.
I play on lonewolf…i will bet you 50g that RMT is just as bad after GDKP is gone, if i’m wrong you can get 50g on a new char on a new server, but if im right…you have to come here and make a post about how wrong you were…and you have to name me in the post.
what say you?
And you’re the arbitrator of how bad RMT is at any given time, with all this data you have access to? What a goofy reply.
No, it didn’t.
Here’s an actual analogy to what the OP is saying.
People are littering.
Littering gets banned.
Attention: “But…but some people will still litter and not get caught!”
So what? Do you really expect a law to have 100% success rate? If it doesn’t, then it’s not worthwhile? Might as well repeal every law ever made.