this is a better argument against GDKP than crying about RMT. There are indeed some very toxic GDKP raid leaders who look for any reason to dock people gold because they have become addicted to earning big pots for the insane Naxx gear they still need.
GDKP is the money laundry tool of RMT. That’s why it’s correctly banned.
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Correct.
Again, correct. I would add that you can’t blame these people for trying to protect their lively hood, even if it is illicit gold sales.
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let me preface with something I haven’t stated yet, I don’t like pugs in general
I was on grobb in 2019 and it wasn’t a megaserver, it only had 7k people for all of vanilla and I believe after phase 1 there was no layering. MC was popular there for all of BWL and most of phase 4 as well, only when AQ came out did we start seeing much less mc involvement.
what do you mean the guild farm doesn’t need more bodies? when I made my first toon on classic and joined a sweaty guild, my alt was actually too late to 60 to join their 2nd group. I ended up joining another guild quite easily in bwl and continued with them until naxx, on a 7k pop server mind you so I don’t think finding a guild suitable to your time schedule will be hard on a megaserver like the ones coming up.
I think the point is, without gdkp’s you won’t be in runs I would be in, with gdkps, you still won’t be in runs I would be in because I would not go into a gdkp. I will probably have an enchanter, so I would go to any type of late phase pug run even in AQ bis just to roll on gear to shard. Maybe I’m an exception but I’d like to think I’m not. I would guess boosting isn’t going away so I don’t think there will be any lack of new players in later phases to do earlier content with. “we” aren’t running mc in later phases together at all, but “I” will continue to do so without a somewhat meaningless gold incentive, regardless of the level of player that is in there, it’s a 2004 mmorpg raid not a mythic+ 20 dungeon.
gdkp hasn’t kept any part of the game alive so your 4th point to me doesn’t hold
I actually care about RMT enough to want to force all players to download a kernel level anticheat system that is running on your pc from bootup so that they can track what you are doing, sort of like how riot games uses vanguard, but I ASSUME you and everyone else that loves gdkp would be vehemently against that, as well as most classic players in general. I wouldn’t mind if you were unable to trade gold to other players in the game either, full stop. The only reason for gold would be to repair, buy mounts and other vendor items, purchase skills and the like. You would have to barter your profession for others and that would remove the auction house, like how runescape was before grand exchange came. don’t assume my stance on the design of the game
my “livelihood” is continuing to be able to enjoy the game as a fun hobby thanks to GDKP keeping the content active for 5+ years
never bought gold, never will.
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Says every kid that buys gold lol
Perhaps I’ll see you on era at some point. Enjoy!
gdkp wasn’t what kept the content active for 5+ years
I know buying gold would instantly kill the game. Nothing I earned will have value and i’d quit the game. I’ve casually played for 5+ years though thanks to GDKP keeping it active which I know for a fact wouldn’t be the case because thats exactly how it went in 2006 when forming groups for old content was a 1-2 hour chore with no guarantee of success…
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gdkp was not what kept the game active
I was there 3000 years ago in 2006 when all old content was dead due to lack of incentive…
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I’ve never done a GDKP and never had an issue clearing content. I’ve also had several friends and guild members that successfully cleared all content without participating in P2W. If you are not clearing content without GDKP its cause you don’t want to. I suppose you will just have to decide if these servers are for you or not. Not everything is for everyone and thats ok.
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oh no wonder GDKP is a boogeyman to you. You’ve never done one lol
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I have not. I have played iterations with it and without it though. I know which I prefer and I’m happy I now have an official option to play.
then they can go do that on the none fresh servers
That content will be dead when people are progging Naxx on Fresh also. That’s what happens when a new raid is released.
yes it is what happens. The only thing that keeps the old content relevant is GDKP adding incentive for players who need no loot.
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Yeah, that’s obviously not true lmao
it is though. the longer fresh goes the more you’ll notice. It’s literally the only reason Era is going strong after 5+ years of the same content. Its undisputable for anyone with eyes and a brain
So…stupid question. How do they stop GDKP? Can’t the guild just do whatever they want through trading the items for gold, or is reportable or something now?
Shut up.
You out grew the game. You cannot dedicate the time into an MMO like you use to back in the day. The answer to that problem is not buying carries, its moving on.
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