Era dead thanks to gdkp

[Bonereaper-thorium-brotherhood]

Bobby got fired. Anyways bring wow token and flying mounts to classic. Thank you

[Thicket-whitemane]

@Tubbly-terenas

GDKP, properly used and in moderation should be fine.

Don’t look now, but you’re making the case for not banning GDKP. Unless, of course, you advocate banning any ELUA-benign use of the game to which some faction of the playerbase objects.

[Nelfx-benediction]

Era is alive because of GDKP, banning them would kill era overnight. It’s really weird how obsessed people are with banning GDKPs instead of banning the real problem which are bots and gold buyers/sellers. Trying to dictate how people want to distribute loot is some 1984 Reddit group think behavior.

[Zeep-whitemane]

@Nelfx-benediction

It’s really weird how obsessed people are with banning GDKPs instead of banning the real problem which are bots and gold buyers/sellers.

Bolded the strawman. I can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone that does not want them to ban bots and gold buyers/sellers.

[Bonereaper-thorium-brotherhood]

Most players GDKP. So logically banning it would help the game. Logically.

[Ivape-crusader-strike]

Most people do it because you have to goofy.

Good luck finding any non gdkp group. If i wanted to trade gold for gear id use the auction house. Also dont try to say theres other groups you can join because thats BS. Even if there is, its maybe 1 raid out of the 100s of gdkp+boost clownery

[Corpseknife-mankrik]

So much hyperbole, so little time.

[Tubbly-terenas (Tubbly)]

@Thicket-whitemane

Don’t look now, but you’re making the case for not banning GDKP.

No, it seems that you didn’t bother to read the context surrounding my response. GDKP should be fine because, on paper, it makes sense. In practice, it’s a disaster for an entire server and only benefits a few people. Sometimes this is just how it works.

Here’s an example. Communism should be fine because it works on paper, but in practice it only benefits a small few while the rest pay the price. Waaaaait a minute, did I just compare GDKP to communism and the corruption that seeds its downfall? Oh dear…

@Nelfx-benediction

Era is alive because of GDKP, banning them would kill era overnight.

You might as well be saying “Era is only alive because there are so many bots. Banning bots would kill Era overnight.”

If Blizzard gets rid of GDKP and Era dies, so be it. If the only thing that keeps someone playing a game is their ability to exploit their fellow player for profit then those people should not be in the game.

I should point out though, Era died once and it came back. What brought people back to the game wasn’t GDKP runs either, those came after it resurrected. So I’m not worried about Era. Will less people play if GDKP is banned? Certainly, just like there will be less people in the game if Blizzard ever deals with bots. This is still a positive outcome for the people who actually want to play the game.

@Zeep-whitemane

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone that does not want them to ban bots and gold buyers/sellers.

[Nelfx-benediction]

People like you and the small minority that are insanely vocal about GDKP being banned don’t play the game though and the ones who do are grey parsing clickers that just want to be carried in MS/OS runs.

[Flapsyz-wyrmrest-accord]

These posts are honestly soooo corny. I hate that I’m even commenting on this, but here I am. OP clearly doesn’t play the game. Era is far from dead, it’s actually booming. There’s raids going on ALL day and night, and guess what? Most of them aren’t GDKP. Guilds run progression Naxx/AQ runs to try to get new clear times. Most of end game bis players are just trying to min max as hard as they can for speed runs. GDKP exists in the game, but it’s mostly just to get some extra gold for consumes.

[Ivape-crusader-strike]

Thats a straight lie goofy. Ill log in right now and its nothing but gdkp and boost spam. Not sure why youre pretending its not

[Tubbly-terenas (Tubbly)]

@Nelfx-benediction

People like you […] don’t play the game though and the ones who do are grey parsing clickers that just want to be carried in MS/OS runs.

Gee, and you wonder why I won’t be sad to see you go…

[Ivape-crusader-strike]

@Nelfx-benediction

People like you and the small minority that are insanely vocal about GDKP being banned don’t play the game though and the ones who do are grey parsing clickers that just want to be carried in MS/OS runs.

You have to be a bot. You arent responding to anything. Just the same automated response to the air when people have replied to you.

Your parses are so i know youre a gdkp buyer. Youre literally worse than the people that need carried cause youre spending gold for it

[Mogoc-tichondrius]

Era’s economy is so awful and mismanaged. Join a guild that has a different loot system I guess.

[Irrick-stormrage]

@Sa-chaos-bolt

We also dislike RMT and monetization of the game.

lmao
Sure, the people promoting RMT while destroying the economy to those who dont RMT, hates RMT.
Specially the know RMTers that left SOD due GDKP ban, they all just had family issues at the same time.

[Wafectus-benediction]

@Ivape-crusader-strike

So how am i supposed to join a pug as a fresh 60? Just wondering.

LFR and RDF.

[Swut-lone-wolf]

@Ned-ashkandi

If GDKPs are just a big gold laundering event

Then why can Blizzard track and ban players who have received illicit gold in a gdkp? Not much of a laundry if the gold comes out dirty

[Alsharptusk-fairbanks]

@Swut-lone-wolf

Then why can Blizzard track and ban players who have received illicit gold in a gdkp?

Real question is if they can do that so easily then why are bots a problem in the first place?

[Mootant-whitemane]

@Sa-chaos-bolt

They want to get carried the second they hit 60 - spending a few days to a couple weeks getting raid ready is incomprehensible to anti-gdkp crowd.

lol

You have that backwards.
If that you are saying I’d true the “Buyers & Carries” paradigm wouldn’t exist dog.

It’s the RMT crowd in general that tries to skip all the content and go directly into the raids. Token or cheated gold is the same thing except Blizz gets their cut from the token.

If GDKPERS policed themselves instead of gaslighting and saying it’s blizzard’s fault that RMTers exist there wouldn’t have been a gdkp ban on Discovery.

Yes self-policing is possible.
It’s also super easy.

Goes something like this:

1. Open your GDKP discord, guild chat, or raid chat.
2. Type out “Buying gold is cheating.” and hit enter.
3. Kick anyone who gets mad.
4. Have fun with your (mostly) RMT free GDKP

[Swut-lone-wolf]

@Alsharptusk-fairbanks

Real question is if they can do that so easily then why are bots a problem in the first place?

IMHO because they don’t permaban gold buyers. Take Sodapoppin, for example.