Actually, yes.
I’ve been watching some vids by former Blizz employees who were involved in fighting bots, and there were definite technical issues involved as well as a systemic failure of will.
Defense is always playing catch up to offense.
Those were the days man…
Raiding with a few friends, raking in all that gold from the pure buyers we hustled, bidding up pots.
Dante was even able to buy himself a new pc when he sold off all his gold.
If you ever sold anything on the AH you better just delete your gold then little bro
Just stop using the AH then. You’re supporting gold buyers there too
What’s best for the game and what’s best for the players may also not line up. I think it’s horrible that at present, you can clear BFD a hundred times and still not have all your stuff. That is, however, great for player retention. I remain hopeful that the token system they’re bringing in p2 will make me more or less indifferent to the banning of GDKPs.
False equivalence “little bro”
Try again.
There’s a tremendous difference in “I bought something off the AH - something permanently tracked, publicly traded, and available… that is logged, indefinitely… On accident, that happened to be from an RMTer”
and
“I consciously joined a RMT raid. I accepted an invite, accepted the loot rules, moved my character to the zone, killed monsters, participated in bidding RMT gold, cleared the zone, and then accepted my cut of RMT gold.”
One is a publicly tracked service, with no ability to consent. One is 15+ informed consent decisions all drowning in RMT. You can’t feign ignorance any longer.
In general, those practices are a net positive for the game.
Unfortunately, the scales have tipped too far the wrong way for GDKPs.
Hopefully, Blizzard can get its house in order and will be able to reinstate GDKP’s position in the game at some point in the future.
Oh NOW you understand false equivalence. Awfully convenient that you utilize it when you think it benefits you.
People that buy gold for GDKP also buy gold to buy consumes, boes, enchants, and profession mats. So if you ever sell anything on the AH you’re complicit. Congrats you played yourself.
The misconception is that some people will come to the forums and think anyone will side with gold buyers.
Your highly misinformed if you think anyone is defending them.
These statements are not incorrect.
While the first may be an opinion, it’s not wrong.
It’s an open secret which is why people get so vitriolic when you dare to criticise GKDP or infer that there’s a lot of gold buying in GDKP, or that GDKP incentivises and encourages people to buy gold(cheat) due to the very nature of the loot rules.
If GDKPs could exist in vacuum where there were no RMTs ever because everybody was 100% honest and didn’t cheat in a video game they’d be fine. That’s not the case and has never been the case with GDKPs.
GDKPs turn WoW into a P2W game.
To be frank, I actually think summons are out of hand and lend to bot activity. I see summonerone summonertwo summonerthree all spamming the LFG non stop. BOEs and portal are fine cause they are in trade chat.
No it was purely man power issues, IE money. They just never wanted to hire enough GM’s to monitor it. Now I’m sure there were cultural issues as well, after all bots and RMT buyers are still paying a sub.
And if you think AI is magically going to fix it I have some AI beans to sell you.
I would definitely agree with you if you were to say "what’s best for the INDIVIDUAL player.
It’s too bad honest players aren’t able to run GDKPs because of the actions of players who cheat.
Unfortunately, the percentage of players who cheat, and the amount they cheat, outweighs the interests of the honest individual.
As the saying goes, “this is why we can’t have nice things”.
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Is there a vendor at the beginning of ICC where I can buy Invincible now? I didn’t know I could use to gold to just get loot off a boss.
Again, you are incorrect.
I don’t believe that at all, which you would know if you actually read my posts rather than skimming them so you can try to score points.
As always, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
No but you can swipe for thousands of gold or buy a bunch of tokens and sell them and then AFK through a raid doing 0 DPS/HPS and bid eleventy bajillion gold on an item.
Stop wasting you time fam, I have no interest in your bad takes and anger.