Bingo. When a person of authority makes a questionable decision because they directly profiteer from that decision… it’s not good.
When that person is no longer present, and the community can freely say that it’s wrong - we can actually have change.
The problem is… People who are accustomed to cheating are now losing their minds they can no longer cheat.
The problem is your assertion that anyone who participated in GDKPs are automatically guilty of cheating, when you yourself said that isn’t the case.
I also believe that you believe that too.
It’s because they are just prejudice, they don’t care about the facts they just want to spew hate.
I hope they give all the gold buyers a nice two week vacation on Feb. 7th, if they don’t ban them outright.
They blocked me because replying to replies in two threads is, evidently, “spam hate replying” while they themselves are a bundle of myopic hate. These kinds of people don’t care about actual problems or solutions, they just want to bully in an echo chamber.
Personally I’d love to see this. Getting a decent game vacation right at the start of a phase would be poetic.
“Everyone who disagrees with me is a prejudiced hate spewer”
“why don’t people take me seriously?”
Given that only a few people have actually bothered to have a conversation, and most have in fact done nothing but spew hate, it’s a fair assessment.
There’s no magic bullet that’s going to cure a complex problem like RMT, so they need to go after every aspect of it that they can.
It’d be justice.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that, I’d just have preferred a truly experimental approach in seeing which did the most good, by how much, and then deciding whether or not to ban GDKPs as a concept.
Hate spewing seems to be what happens when people are unintentionally called out for their bad behaviour.
Like if you say something like “buying gold is cheating” you usually get one or two people insulting you.
Well now that’s just silly. Buying gold is in fact cheating.
I was largely referring to others ITT who just wanted their bully dopamine hit.
No it was purely money 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.
Last response you’ll get from me:
I never, at any point, ever said that it wasn’t the case. Let me remove any ambiguity from you, so you can quit harassing me in every single thread/spam replying me:
I personally believe that all participants in GDKPs are knowingly and willingly shuffling RMT gold around. You are knowingly, willingly, and consciously either purchasing gold to buy items - or accepting purchased gold for items.
That all persons participating in GDKP are conscious, aware, and cognizant of the fact the gold they’re obtaining and/or spending is almost guaranteed to be RMT gold - and it’s a risk they’re willing to take to be able to feign innocence and claim they didn’t know.
It is no secret, and has never been a secret to anyone involved - GDKP is entirely fueled by RMT. You all know. You are all aware. You are 100% allowing informed consent to accept RMT gold under the blanket of “LUL I DIDN’T KNOW XDDD”.
And we - en large, being “We” the community, “We” online gaming, and “We” the people at Blizzard who made the decision - all are aware of it as well.
Your grey-area attempted plausible deniability is removed. Participation equals expulsion. Continue at your own risk, because nobody believes the feigned ignorance of where that gold came from any longer.
I hope this was clear enough for you about where I stand. Goodbye!
I’ve always thought GDKPs were fine. I didn’t participate in them, but they seemed innocuous enough.
However, it’s become increasingly obvious that they’re in no way good for the game.
We appreciate you admiting that you don’t know what you are talking about, we can now ignore your comments since you will add nothing meaningful to the conversation.
I’m not harassing you, I’m replying to you in threads we’re both actively engaged in. That also isn’t spam. You have a need to characterize my actions as predatory because you need to feel like the good guy.
Your personal belief is a flat out erroneous assertion. Most people participating in GDKPs are sick and tired of playing the game with nothing to show for it due to bad luck in RNG, or would like to receive gold income from actually playing the game in an active, rather than passive manner.
The notion that all gold being traded in GDKPs is RMT’d gold is also just patently false, at least from what I’ve seen with SoD. If you’ve done a few quests at cap, GG, you’re good to go.
You’re not being rational about this. That’s fine, if I suppose, you do you, but in no way are those beliefs backed up by anything but anxiety, fear, or hate.
By that logic BoEs, portals, summoning or general commerce exchange are not good for the game because they can be influenced by illicit behavior.