The great thing about Era is that people are there…for Era.
It seems like every other version people are just looking to the future and the horizon, with no focus on the moment. Whereas Ea is entirely about the moment and the experience. It’s not heading anywhere. There’s no reason to do anything other than you want to. It’s back to being a game people play for fun. For the most part anyway.
that is true, and i believe if anyone want classic 60 he/she would be playing era
on the other hand anniversary dragged people for being fresh (cus some people love fresh servers somehow) & it will be tbc (for tbc-era lovers)
and i’m really glad anniversary banned gdkp, i hope blizzard consider banning gdkp in classic mop servers.
Anniversary’s playerbase is weird.
It seems like most people got their fill of Vanilla in 2019. And the players who appreciate it for what it is just keep playing Era.
The leftovers headed over to Anniversary. A lot of them seem to genuinely dislike the game, and look for any shortcut or advantage. Hence all the gold buying. They hate it when PvP happens in a bg. It’s all about the honor grind. Raids are treated like a burden, and they want to get through them as quickly as possible. They’re supposed to be fun. It’s just a game. But these players don’t treat it like that.
Can you imagine what these types of players would do in GDKPs? They’re willing to spend 1000g on some unnecessary flask to make trivial content a little more trivial. Imagine if they could just buy the best gear in the game with gold. We’d see rmt like never before. I can absolutely envision million gold GDKP pots. All the whales on one server. Whale vs whale just means higher and higher bids. It would be insane.
GDKP is the best guild recruitment tool, a lucrative way to vet good players in real time.
ZG is going to be terrible without GDKPs, not to mention the HR/SR garbage.
inb4
LFM ZG ALL IDOLS, BIJUOS, MOUNTS, AND HEART HR pst! 
Bring GDKP back, should’ve never been banned in the first place.
Right the majority of the classic player base moved on to TBC back when TBC Classic came out because they prefer that or wrath. Anniversary is literally just a TBC and Wrath Waiting room for most of the players there.
Oh yeah and if it’s not HR I’m definitely looking forward to half the group dropping when they don’t win the idol…
And people still go to Snowfall in AV, there’s a non-sequitur in exchange.
You have absolutely no-proof that removing GDKP didn’t hurt RMT and you have no way to prove it.
Lying through your teeth just makes you and Pro-GDKPs look bad, you should be working on your image if you wanna convince others, let alone Blizzard that GDKPs should come back.
i have met many people in anniversary who said that they missed playing 2019 and they wanted to try classic 60, but what to expect from the new generation of phone games, ofc they do not want to play > they just want to obtain and rmt is the standard for them.
but as you said, if gdkp wasn’t banned in anniversary then for sure we would see rmt like never before
Given that RMT is demonstrably not tied to GDKP as proved in multiple versions with it banned there’s zero reason to think the amount of RMT would be any different than it is in any other versino.
Since just like all the other version blizzard refuses to actually police it.
You keep using that word
That’s fair too. I’m just speaking in generalities. And also falling for the age old nonsense that the forum posters represents the actual playerbase. But in this case it kinda does. But obviously not completely.
they will at some point.
also no one is saying that gdkp is the reason for rmt, rmt can always happen in any game, but the scale of rmt increases if the game have things to encourage gold buying.
-such as gdkp which will attract rich people who love the p2w games and also it will drive anyone to buy gold to get the gear he/she wants because we humans will always take the shortcut to save time/effort at the cost of paying $$
He thinks a loot system where players buy the best gear in the game with gold doesn’t promote gold buying?
That’s what he’s going with? 
Blizzard has refused to enforce anti botting and RMT for the entirety of classic and before. There is no reason to think they’ll start now.
/shrug GDKP isn’t p2w in WoW, people who say this never played an actual p2w game.
blizzard enforced anti multi-boxer after 20 years of the game release.
p2w is just a term, there is no category for so called games p2w, you can find games selling items in shop that you can’t obtain in game and you would consider it pay 2 win, and you could see games selling items in shop that can be farmed in game and you will still consider it p2w, also you could see a game filled with real money trades / boosts at every direction / end game gear bought by gold which was bought for real $$$ and you’ll consider it pay 2 win
in the end you pay cash to beat those people who are not paying cash, gdkp can make you do this if you get best gear in game just cus u paid $$$ for gold when many others can’t even raid naxx.
do you know what will happen if tomorrow blizzard did add naxx gear in shop? people will call this p2w even if some will say it’s not p2w since you can raid naxx & get that gear, on the other hand we will see hunderers of people will buy that gear for w/e reasons they have in mind, simply because they can buy it, and this is why gold buying is the main fuel for gdkp! because many people would prefer to simply buy gold > go gdkp > bid 3849383 on gear to take it.
also we all have seen in past 5 years, that every single gdkp even the well organized groups are always seeking pure buyers, “bad geared people who’s joining just because they have xxxxx amount of gold”
And if that becomes the case it would be a valid discussion, but it’s not the case.
As is there’s a pretty finite amount of actual power that can be acquired with just gold and it’s all easily available without RMT. GDKP runs are killing the same bosses as everyone else, which have the same loot, which has the same drop rates.
Imagine banning GDKP and thinking the game would improve!
Full of bots/RMT/ridiculous HR runs, and pugs that take hours to clear MC.
Great game
/s
I mean the main downsides to gdkp in anniversary is the up bidding of items and well people saying an item is pre-sold for a very small price. With that being said if this game does stay in tbc, the best time for blizzard to make money with gdkp might be starting in tier 5 of tbc when the ashes are sellable with the glaives being added next phase to get people excited if it does return.
Which will probably also include the release of the wow token in tier 5 because you would have to be an idiot to get gear which is at best pre-raid t4. And really I think I have said in one of my posts token with perminent tbc era would make alot of money when we did at the time not get tbc era.
Then you just avoid those GDKP’s.