Been reporting anyone “suspicious” since I started playing in classic ERA 6 months ago.
Not one warning email from blizz or flag on my account yet. Can’t say the same for the 10’s of hundreds I have in my mailbox with actioned accounts though.
Live with it.
I like how you had to change the subject to make it seem like you had a retort.
I’m doing it lol, since banning them won’t be dejure- we can make it defacto with the automated system. Think if it as blizz gave players the ability do downvote you off the game.
What subject was changed? We’re still talking about reporting GDKP’s and the people hosting them due to RMT aren’t we?
If you were just reporting GDKP’s, you’d have said so, not used the euphemism of “suspicious”
GDKP’s in and of themselves are not suspicious, against the ToS, or actionable, so reporting people for advertising for or participating in GDKP’s is simply a false report. Doing so repeatedly can action your own account.
RMT are a distinct issue. Reporting a gold seller is easily going to get you a thank-you note, and I get them too when I report them. Same with reporting folks running around with gibberish names killing the same mobs on loop.
GDKPs != RMT
GDKP’s don’t facilitate RMT anymore than the AH, personal trades, or guild point systems do.
GDKP’s exist with or without RMT.
GDKPs should be restricted to trade chat like boosters, and anyone who advertises elsewhere should be similarly banned.
But without rmt you wouldnt get your huge bonus at the end!
Let’s say every item in a BFD goes for an average of 25g, so a final pot of 350g. I’ve not been in any BFDs that had special cuts since BFD is such a joke, so that would mean 35g for me if I don’t bother bidding on anything. For people that bought one item, they still make back what they paid, plus 10g. People that bought TWO items at this average price managed to only actually shell out 15g.
Yall really don’t seem to understand how easily people can rack up excess gold with modest numbers really quickly. Dropping 50g on the epic caster staff is dirt cheap and if I’m on my Rogue when it does drop… yay I hope the casters fight over it since I get 10% of whatever the final price is. Then it goes for something more likely like 300-400g and now I know I have a big purse coming my way and I can splurge on an Aku’mai item if I feel so inclined.
Or I can be the caster going for the staff and pour all my characters’ gold onto one toon for an attempt at it, ready to drop hundreds of gold myself. No big deal because I got it all from prior GDKPs, none of which had big payouts, but all of it added up quickly because I don’t roll on items often.
Excess gold only matters relative to the gold other people bring to the table since we have nothing expensive to delete our gold on like hyper expensive vendor mounts and the like. GDKPs allow anyone to participate after just one or two raids, regardless of starting gold, regardless of RMT or not, since they automatically find their own level.
I take my legitimately farmed gold by lots and lots of herbalism and alchemy and almost act interested in buying items in GDKPs but instead I just make more money from the GDKPs as well, so I love them, they are easy for people not interested in items / overgeared to make gold. Do not see any harm .
Like, by all means if you want to spend gold on level 25 items , like, you’re just helping others out at that point it’s charity, keep it up.
They’re feeling the heat.
But GDKP’s are the only place where we can physically find gold buyers unlike the auction house or personal trades… Would you like me to also report anyone standing infront of the auction house all day?
It’s more efficient to find a gold buyer and get one banned by looking at GDKP’s.
You are proving our point that GDKPs are harmful. The payout in WOTLK Classic is hundreds of thousands sometimes. You don’t think having a bunch of players gold capped relative to the average player the doesn’t GDKP is excessive?
The amount of mental gymnastics you guys go through to defend a bad losing position is hilarious. Reminds me of watching the cigarette company execs testifying in Congress trying to defend their poison.
I want to start mass reporting anyone posting anything in trade or LFG. Maybe then blizzard will disable or enforce people using it for stuff that isn’t against the rules but that they just don’t agree with.
Zero sarcasm intended: I have no clue how people on this board call you a troll when people like the person you’re responding to suggest mass reporting people for RMT for paying, in gold, to be summoned by a warlock.
I started playing WoW shortly after Naxxramas was released in 2006 and saw mages selling portals and warlocks selling summons that far back. I’m fully aware there was RMT back then - I had a classmate that spent his first McDonald’s paycheck on gold for their epic flying training in 2007 - but suggesting that paying a warlock for a summon or a mage for a portal (and I will say the person you quoted didn’t say anything about mage portals, but I’m including it because these fall in the same camp of “fast travel via class ability for money”) is evidence of RMT makes about as much sense as wiping before you poop.
What next, reporting people for saying “enchanter LF work, free w/your mats, tips appreciated”? Are we going full tin-foil and saying that’s a laundering scheme, with every single interaction?
Anyway. I’m pretty sure abusing the game’s systems because you don’t like something in the game that is not currently against the rules is still an abuse of the systems and a bannable offense. Even if Blizzard DOES do something about all this in the future(which they haven’t in Classic in the past four and a half years unless it was so egregious that triggered the automatic system), mass reporting is still a TOS violation. It’s also a massive indicator of being a petulant brat that should probably sit in on a kindergarten class and learn how to play along with others.
(And if a certaim person in question wants to call that last bit an ad hominem attack: Seems you still don’t understand what the term means. 
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That’s where you’re wrong. Report them all for botting. The systems are automated. They’ll get banned.
That’s already been debunked and isn’t true.
I been doing gdkps for 5 years please report me.
Yep you can see people making threads that got banned. For gdkp advertising lmao. Its a clownfest. I think its hilarious. I been joining gdkps and reporting every single player in the raid
Good, this practice needs to rot on the pile of bad gaming trends.
Do people hate GDKP’s because they have access to a raiding guild and they want to have a gear advantage over people who don’t have access to a raiding guild? I feel like this is secretly the reason everyone hates on GDKP’s.
The only real argument I see against GDKP’s is that it “encourages” gold buying/botting. So that means you’re against any tradable in game currency holding any sort of real in-game value because it leads to botting? But doesn’t almost every other MMO have a free market trading system with gear that can be bought or traded for gold? Why do people act like WoW is the only game to have botting issues and therefore we should make gold a useless currency? This is just the nature of playing an MMO with a free market or trading system…
If that were true, why are bots not banned immediately? Do not enough people report them?