I’m only playing currently because of GDKP but honestly the gold buying has gotten out of hand when every piece worth anything is 50-60k and payouts are 30k the math isn’t mathing. And the reason payouts are awful is because you usually have 3 of the drops be useless garbage like spirit plate or x2 of an item no one needs.
If gdkp was banned I would have a reason to finally quiit for good. Either that or start policing gold buying and putting out bans I never hear of anyone getting suspended or banned anymore but know for a fact people are still swiping like crazy.
I was actually heavily against the gdkp ban on fresh and its the entire reason I stopped playing after hitting 60. It did nothing to stop it people still buy tons of gold and I know people that do it and blizzard doesn’t care.
Honestly I just want to them to police it or give me a reason that I can finally quit without regret.
If Blizzard were to start cracking down harder on gold buying(which I’m not against) it still wouldn’t solve the problem of the useless garbage. The RL is probably also taking a larger cut than people realise if the numbers aren’t adding up.
They are saying the numbers don’t add up because people are paying 60k a piece when they payout for the run is 30k. So basically saying the people who are bidding that much are buying gold.
Which entirely ignores the simple possible of having multiple characters or idk not buy something the previous week.
I don’t think anyone ever claimed that it would completely stop botting and RMT, just that it would reduce demand, which is bad for the bots business.
Unfortunately, the bots (and RMT) exist because people are dumb enough to buy from them, we have a case of demand creating supply. Get rid of the demand, either by convincing players, or first strike bans (no messing around with suspensions), and that might have a chance of stopping them.
Exactly blizzard clearly doesn’t care about actually stopping botting but will do things for show to pretend they care like ban waves every few months or banning GDKP’s.
Considering how dead Cata is, I doubt there is much demand for illicit gold farmed by bots right now. Don’t forget Cata also has legal gold buying with the WoW token.
So gold is the issue one way or the other. How can Blizzard just eliminate Gold altogether? Or the exact opposite make everyone Trillionaires. Everyone’s Gold stays at 999999999999 no matter what you buy.
How do you stop gold buying without killing the game? I doubt it is possible.
payout is low because:
-people dont buy normal items, they farm twilight dungeons to skip these
-raiders quality gone down really hard since cata, not many teams can clear heroic DS
-RLs taking ridiculous cut, like 25% on A or 30% on H lol
-rogue legendary is cheap, its only for 1 class therefore no longer in high demand
You do realize that gold buying is literally legal on cata now right? Has been since they added the wow token. Good luck proving anyone bought gold any way other than legitimately.
People have been stockpiling gold by running gdkp’s on multiple toons every week for 6 years now, items are going to be expensive, especially when you can buy the gold directly from blizzard. There also the fact that most of the big server discords for gdkp artificially inflate the pots by enforcing high minimum start price/bids to make up for their lack of prog