The anti gdkp’ers got tired of their ms os sr pugs being full of low performers because all the good players were in gdkp’s, so they launched a campaign of trying to associate GDKP with RMT to trick people who don’t know any better into thinking that all gdkp’ers buy gold. This is why when anyone says “but rmt is just as bad without them” they get attacked as a gold buyer, gold seller, rmt’er, botter ect or saying “no one said it was going to curve RMT!!1!!1” No one has ever made any real or objective argument against them, and the arguments they were using have been disproven in SoD and Fresh.
Will gdkp’s come back? I would bet that they won’t, because blizzard isn’t the type to admit a mistake and change something like that, especially when so many people believe that this is them attempting to do something about RMT.
Lots of people say this, yet nightswiper is the most botted and rmt’d classic server to date. They also used to say that flasks were only expensive because GDKP’s caused inflation, but they can’t lie about that anymore since you can just look at the nightslayer AH to know thats false.
It didn’t work at all because RMT/botting is tremendously higher on the servers that banned gdkp than the servers that didn’t ban them. I can’t tell you the last time I saw a bot on Cata.