No GMs at all in Era made chinese bots explode economy in all servers (then server transfers allowed for homogenic economy across all servers) and gave free access to anyone to buy their way from level 10 to 60 bis gear for some cheap dollars that do not represent any value because the gold comes from botting mats 24/7, so it only gets cheaper and cheaper.
This ruins it for literally any player not buying gold.
Take some measures Blizzard. If you are not willing to put a GM in Era servers at least nerf boosting so spoiled people don’t even get to buy their way to 60 before they get tired from the game.
Also restrict server transfers so each server has its own economy.
Bots and GDKPs are largely a problem on free Xfer destinations. The realms’ economies are also localized to the cluster they belong to. You’ll appreciate the stark differences if you simply log-in to any realm that isn’t a part of a free Xfer cluster (PvE West or either of the 2 PvP East clusters).
If your definition of doing just fine is prices for everything being multiplied x3 for average player in less than 2 months, then you must be doing something wrong.
Gold on gdkps are gold from bots that are devaluing gold and crashing economy.
Making less gold than a bot doesn’t mean you’re not making enough gold for your own needs
There are TONS of things you can farm in this game that are profitable and completely solo farmable
Twilight texts
Ekos
Devilsaurs
Dark runes
Solid/dense stone
Essence/elementals
Runecloth
The list goes on, not to mention gdkps pay out hundreds/ thousands of gold
And btw i have yet to encounter any multiboxing bots farming in the open world impacting anyone elses ability to farm/tag mobs. All the bots are inside instances
And in some niche cases the bots are actually making the price of things cheaper in a positive way. I remember major mana pots were regularly 3g a piece on 2019 classic. Now you can buy an entire 5 stack for 3g
not on alliance side, they aren’t. lol they are like 9g a stack.
I do agree that while stuff is overpriced. If you are lucky to get some drops and or farm for hot items you can make a killing as well in the AH.
I’ve been making a killing selling goblin sappers. I had enough on my hunter selling skinning stuff to have my epic mount about 4 days after hitting 60. I should have enough to buy my war’s epic mount once I hit 60 on him.
I havent even started farming DMT. I did that so much in 2019, I’m not looking forward to it but its a great way to make gold.
I will NOT be joining any GDKPs. I’ll remain forever broke. lol
I’m leveling a new guy and just from gathering profs he has a couple hundred gold at lv40. Inflated economy means things sell for more too and for a new leveler that’s great for affording fixed costs like mounts, spell training, respecs etc.
Bots are not a priority for Blizzard at this point. They ban them, but the pace is so slow that it’s worth it for farmers to start a new character and bot again. I have bots I’ve reported multiple times that I now follow on my friends list. I have a druid who has been mining/herbing since at least February; I’ve reported him every time I run into him; it took four months for him to disappear and how he’s back with a new druid with the same name lol.
I started following fishing bots on my server; one guy on my server runs several level 10 fishing bots. I report them when I find them, but it generally takes 30-60 days for them to get banned. He has another one ready to go as soon as one is banned. This morning I compared stats to one of them, and its fished nearly 200k fish in 2+ months. With the amount of data that Blizzard has, they could easily auto-ban common exploits like level 10 fishing bots, but they choose not to, which tells you it is not a priority.
The reason you can afford stuff like consumes on the AH even though all the bots are inflating the gold constantly is two-fold:
The bots are printing gold, but also printing mats/consumes. There is a crazy amount of gold being generated, but also crazy amounts of herbs, fish, etc.
The vast majority of bot-generated gold is injected directly into GDKPs, and stays there. The pots go up every week as more and more wallet warriors inject gold into the GDKP circulation. It’s virtually impossible to hijack the AH with all this gold because of point 1.
Edit: Also, another reason you cannot hijack the AH with the botted gold is because there is so much of it that if consumes were sold at the level of inflation that is seen in GDKPs the prices would be so high that any player who isn’t RMTing would never be able to buy.
Thats an outlier, not the norm and not to be expected. The way youre informing them is misleading.
By the time a new or returning player gets to 60 from level 1 today the pots will have already started going down, particularly for everything but Naxx.
Nope, I’m not misleading anyone. The driver of GDKP pot inflation is more players buying more gold and spending it in GDKPs. The game typically loses players as a phase goes on (and of course loses players who need the gear).
The fact that era happens to be gaining players even though the phase is old is an “outlier”, but a growing population leading to growing GDKP pots is not an outlier.
, we can be the change we want to see.