RMT is in every aspect of the game, and I wouldn’t be so sure how much of a driver GDKPs really are when the majority of GDKPers don’t need to buy gold because they already earn the gold within GDKPs. Sure, some will RMT, but those RMTers will RMT without GDKPs anyway.
Laundering? Not a thing, unless GDKPs magically erase all gold transaction data prior to the GDKPs. If by laundering you mean GDKPs create more data to sort through, then if they can’t filter all the data from GDKPs or players with a saved raid ID, that’s on them for not really trying anyway.
If they’re banning RMT bots, then that means they have a source to track where that gold, why not ban all the people that the gold gets sent to? It doesn’t make sense to trace it backwards from GDKPs when they can trace it forward from the source.
Sure - and by banning GDKP’s they’re reducing RMT. It’s an easy thing to target, and it’s something that primarily benefits from RMT and drives it.
Lol. The majority of GDKPers want a few gold-buying whales in their raid so that they can benefit. They aren’t directly buying gold, they’re just benefitting from gold buying.
Sure is.
It makes perfect sense. As a major beneficiary of RMT gold, getting rid of GDKP’s drops demand for it.
Nobody thinks that banning GDKP’s will get rid of RMT, but it does have an effect. It’s like banning high powered automatic rifles - doesn’t stop murder, but certainly helps.
GDKPs incentivize RMT, but incentivizing something isn’t a crime, especially one resulting in an outright ban. You keep saying GDKPs are a massive driver of RMT, but how massive? Even Blizzard doesn’t have the data to claim it as a “majority”, so how much RMT is it really reducing?
Majority of GDKPers are just regular players who enjoy GDKP. Why is it that just because a system involves gold, you assume that it’s all people want? Personally, I don’t care for anyone or whales that hold the raid back. Gold can only do so much anyway, it’s easy to run out of things to spend gold on.
No point in making an empty claim that you don’t understand and can’t explain. “Laundering” simply doesn’t make sense in a game where they have all the data.
It’s a ban because Blizzard have told you it’s a ban if you do it. Pretty simple.
You mean like “laundering, not a thing” after Blizz explicitly stated it was helping?
Yeah - they enjoy all the gold they get from swipers. Not arguing that they don’t enjoy all that illicit gold.
I don’t assume, I know it’s all most of them want. It’s all they talk about during the raid “how big will the pot be” “hope the split is good” “hope that guy bought enough gold to bid up xxx item”.
If “Blizzard said this, Blizzard said that” is all that’s needed, they wouldn’t have asked for feedback on this experimental test. No point in any discussion if you blindly follow their words, especially when you’re quite selective of which words you follow.
I doubt they do it in cata since the token is out.
When they first said they were going to do it in SOD i thought it was a bad move but it was worth a try to see how it played out.
Did the gdkp ban do anything? To me it hasnt done much of anything, rmt and bots are still out in full force.
The people who were buying gold are still buying gold.
The anti argument doesnt even seem to mind rmt, its more they just hated gdkps.
If gdkps were here would those people notice more rmt or bots? Im guessing they wouldnt but they would see the gdkp spam for raids in their game and get triggered simply because they hate gdkps.
Can you think of any other MMO that polices loot distribution? People here are too blinded by their GDKP hate that they can’t even see how absurd it is, and it’s all because Blizzard can’t manage their RMT problem.
They’re trying to manage their RMT problem, and part of that strategy is the GDKP ban. There’s plenty of more they could/should do - but at least they done this to start with.
