Not seeing as much demand for your wow token as you suspect? Good idea by removing a gold source for bots driving up their costs and increasing cost of gold thus making your WoW token more competitive. It’s actually unreal that you now care about gold farms after you have a way to monetize ways to transfer gold. Mind you I didn’t say you cared about botting. You still want their sub. You just want them to be more less efficient to where WoW token costs increase. Absolute pigs of a company. Disgusting.
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So…
Yall were not prepared?
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Please remove the enrage timers on the bosses please. they are pointless to have TY.
What are people buying gold for? You need to get to the root of the issue. That’s right- GDKPs. I know a ton of people champion them because it’s the easy way to get gear, but if you’re going to stop the botting you have to kill the demand.
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Or you can just get heavier on getting rid of the bots. People bought gold before GDKP and they would buy gold after GDKP. You’re solving nothing by gettnig rid of it and theres no reason to get rid of it to begin with.
If you’re going to get rid of things because they drive up desire to buy gold then you’re gonna have to get rid of -
Guilds
AH
Fast flying
Tundra mammoth
Dalaran ring
Arena
RBG (in future expacs)
Crafting BOEs
BoEs in general
The idea to get rid of a loot system instead of just getting rid of the actual problem is stupid.
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You’re right-the loot system is the current problem. 
The rest of those were single time purchases, GDKP is forever. RMT will happen regardless, however, not near the scale it has on WOTLKC if there’s really nothing to buy outside of the listed items.
All said and done, I’d rather get paid to not loot things, fast and clean runs and what not, but I won’t defend a bad (good) loot system.
GDKP promotes RMT, far beyond any reasonable person would want without it. RMT isn’t needed for a GDKP either, but having an advantage over others is human nature, and it’ll only get worse on that end.
Going heavier on bots just means the GDKP communities pots get deflated. Gold is only as valuable as the dollar price set by RMT organizations. Everything sold has a dollar value in a GDKP based off the bidders chosen website.
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If the tradeoff to keep GDKP as a loot system for the legitimate players that enjoy it is to keep bots and rmt in the game then so be it. Ya’ll can stay mad.
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Before gdkps existed, Blizzard had to make an Authenticator to help secure accounts from malicious actors who were trying to steal account for the gold on them, in order to resell the gold, as account stealing produced more gold than gold farming.
You’re trying to put every issue with RMT on the back of gdkps when these issues have existed far before gdkps did, to an even more malicious level than it is now.
Like you can be angry at gdkps, but you’re just wrong.
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It looks like Zul’Aman has been nerfed as well. The trash leading up to the first boss no longer drops loot.
When was the first GDKP? When was the authenticator added? How much were people losing when their accounts were stolen?
I like them, but…I like the game more and would give it up to try and put the game in a better place. Like, literally just got done with one 5 minutes before reset. I fully support it.
However, outside of hoarding gold, which we all like to do, would I spend thousands of dollars to keep my pockets lined up for no reason? Or would I just casually line my pockets by playing the game as designed?
I wouldn’t have spent 3k (minimum bid) on a few items if I hadn’t already been heavily involved in GDKP’s to begin with, which I have plenty of reason to believe was purchased and injected into the game by bots to begin with.
Just like you I support it, but I would never defend it.
GDKP was popular in classic. It stems from carry runs which stems from pot runs, which technically existed in LK, but wasn’t well known at all. It’s in the same boat as logs. They both existed in LK originally, but their usage was very minimal. The authenticator was added in LK, to combat account stealing. Gold selling was rampant in TBC, and only got worse in LK when sellers chose to steal accounts, take everything they could from it, and destroy the rest. This was happening alongside sellers advertising their sites via dead bodies in front of banks and auction houses, going so far to even berate Blizzard with corpse art because Blizzard was losing that war.
Gold selling goes back further than any variation of gdkp, and existed in a more malicious state than it currently does. This is because gdkps aren’t actually a problem or a symptom, just a player created loot system that is affected, no different than any other system that involves gold, like trading, ah, single purchase buys, rep farming, etc.
I dont remember the name of the game from like 2 years ago but if you think bots and p2w is just a wow issue think again.
My point the grass is never greener.
tbc server please
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And where did I say that?
You didnt say it i did in my response about leaving wow for another game. Sorry should have been more clear.
“Blizzard have decided to lock World of Warcraft as people were running bots throughout the game. To reopen the game you must purchase a wow token (as well as have a valid subscription). Please be assured, we make no money out of this, we’re just trying to enforce our ToS.” /s
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Sure, people will always RMT in any game. That’s not the question at hand. It is to what scale, and why?
If GDKP’s went away, do you really think the scale of RMT would be as out of control as it is now? Congrats, a Mammoth is 18k. A Shadowmourne will be 400-750k. Val’anyr frags were up to 20k each, and Mimiron’s head sells for a cool 1 million on a Dad server.
Enjoy your authenticator, GDKP origin story. Acceptance is the first step to recovery.
I like it, but it’s bad for the game as a whole. It’s not worth all the side effects.
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funny how you didnt address these issues before surprise dropping the token.
Beyond pathetic blizzard.
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I said the brief history of gold selling to illustrate the point that without gdkps, it was just as rampant, if not more so.
Like it’s ok that you mocked the story and don’t understand it, but when you ask that question I quoted right before mocking me, it shows how much you actually understand about this topic.
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That wasn’t the point of what I said though, like, the focus wasn’t on bots, but on this company’s inability to make changes to the game, strictly for the health of the game, instead opting to need a financial motivation in order to do so.
That’s why BT going down post wow token is sus. BT was known about for a while but they don’t even think about it till after they have a stake in the scene.