Instead of culling the source problem (bot accounts farming gold to sell to lazy people who use GDKPs to gear out), Blizz has made the bold decision to tell you how to play the game.
The problem was never the GDKPs. It’s always been the bots. Control the gold farming/selling/buying to make GDKPs a harmless and fun way to include gold in the raiding experience. Banning bots would mean, however, that Blizz would lose subscription money. Can’t be havin’ that, now can we?
I think in reality the bots have way more resources than blizzard has when it comes to bot development verses systems to combat them. They also have more incentive to continue to develop them than blizzard has to combat it.
I think trying this is a smart idea since they should test things with SoD. I do have some concerns though. My biggest being that in order not to flag myself that all gold exchanges will need to go through the AH. An example being what if I want to give my wife 100g. Will that trigger the flag?
just ban the bots! any one (or seriously, 200) of those 1900 people who were laid off last week could have stuck around and manually banned bots. Its all about money. Theyre destroying the garden to remove the weeds.
GDKPs are not prevelant in retail and bots are still a problem, you thinking it’s the main reason and applauding Blizzard for banning them only encourages Blizzard to continue ignoring the real problem.
I get it folks are upset they can’t swipe for gear any longer or a least it will be more difficult. Once the stages of grief are over they will stop crying about it and move on.
They can say that all they want but banning GDKPs is basically an open announcement that they can’t handle the bots so carpet bombing collateral damage is the route they have chosen.
Even without GDKP’s there are reasons to buy gold. I think this will put a dent in how much people buy which is a good thing, but there are still some negatives to getting rid of GDKPs.
The first GDKP I ever ran was in MC. I was full BiS at this point and had no reason to run it anymore. The idea that I could trade my experience and ability for gold gave me a reason to raid and helped others gear up.
