- The vast majority of GDKP gold is laundered gold from people who bought it on 3rd party websites.
- People playing the auction house well enough to have 15x times the gold cap is such a unrealistic edge case in comparison with how many people buy gold in that volume its not even worth considering.
Most of it happens via methods outside of the game ie paypal which Blizzard cannot detect unfortunately
The good news is people actively hunt that down as players because some players hate how GDKP’s impact the game so much. So the more people run it and invite outside players the larger chance the people running it get banned.
Not enough i’m afraid because they’re still so widespread, just as botting and rmt is
It really does say allot about the intent of GDKPs when they get banned and people resort to RMT directly in order to evade detection. All those people arguing thats not why people are doing it 
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RMT has always existed and it hasn’t/isn’t going away but yeah people who are dead set on GDKP’s will always find a way to do it
The GDKP ban is wack. The only valid argument against it is that RMT whales were using it to achieve BiS gear to the benefit of hardcore players. No one knows the actual percentage of RMT that is fueled solely by GDKP.
It will not eliminate RMT or prevent the economy from being jeffed or fix the “social fabric” (this is the most laughable part of anti-GDKP reasoning) of the game.
The GDKP raids will not turn into SR or MS/OS raids. Instead, there will simply be less raids per capita.
The vast majority of RMT is done this way, regardless if it’s for GDKPs or not.
Tell us you’re bad at the AH without telling us you’re bad at the AH.
So basically there’s a lot of botting and RMT in WoW. There’s also a lot of people who don’t like GDKP’s.
Instead of addressing botting and RMT blizzard realized it was cheaper to just ban GDKP’s and appease the anti GDKP crowd while pretending it was an anti botting/RMT thing.
Tell me you don’t understand the reasons WHY people RMT in regards to GDKPs without telling me.
If you think people dropping 3m gold on a single item in a GDKP in classic wow is primarily people who game the auction house I have a bridge to sell you.
They are cutting off one of the largest incentives to buy/sell gold. Once thats tackled then it reduces the potential profit margin and liquid gold velocity in WoW is highly reduced.
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Except SoD proved that false.
What else are you going to buy with gold, BOEs and consumables? Wow im sure the 300 gold for consumes each week is gonna totally compare to the 3,000,000 gold for a single item in a GDKP. Totally not 10,000x more gold for a similar time investment for a single individual.
Or the at max 20,000 gold for a BOE which is 150x times less gold than the single item in a GDKP.
No clue what people are doing with their RMT.
But it clearly isn’t GDKP since RMT is still rampant in SoD.
If banning GDKPs didn’t disincentivize gold selling then people wouldn’t be complaining about the ban. The whiners are proof that the ban is working as intended.
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Literally anything and everything that costs gold. The way you’re thinking about GDKP’s potential influence on RMT versus every-other-thing’s potential influence on RMT is way off.
If a person can only make 50g/hr by picking herbs, and is able to convert that to a dollar value according to the rates offered by an RMT site, they may be tempted to risk a ban when they realize how much an hour of their time at work is worth in comparison.
Right except that people who don’t RMT do do GDKP.
Which shocker is why RMT is still rampant.
Where are you seeing items go for 3 million? Maybe in wrath/cata where we have the token, shadowmourne went for 1 million for the gen 1’s. One of the guys I know of who paid that much for it made all their gold selling boosts in arena for weapons/shoulders.
There’s also way more gold flowing into the economy in wrath though, more dailies, more gold in general.
Even when Salad Bakers got busted for pre-selling warglaives it only amounted to 20k…
What you fail to realize is the games in game payment options via gold (quests, vendoring loot, etc) have a set value. Thus, inflation caused via incentizing botting, gold buying/selling, etc) makes every daily quest, regular quests, etc. Which means players have no incentive other than for lore to run questlines.
So inflation being incentivized via any means (especially a means that HEAVILY incentivies gold buying/selling large volumes of gold since whoever has the most gold wins high value items.)
Someone bought the “Band of Callous Aggression” in TOGC for 3 million gold in a GDKP in WOTLK Classic. Just 1 year ago in a “Prefoxfox” GDKP. You can see the video on youtube (cant link it here for some reason)
Video title was " THE MOST EXPENSIVE ITEM JUST GOT SOLD IN WOW ($13000 worth of gold)"