Still very much a stretch compared to the boosting communities which were much much bigger than simple GDKPs.
Boosting communities like Huokan were seen as an escrow service as they:
had groups made to boost and pay them in gold to boost bad players. The booster community as well takes a percentage cut from the rate, which is standardized across all the servers.
had ‘advertiser’ groups that they paid in gold which lead to mass spamming.
their escrow service was multiple side accounts for the ‘community bank’ so if 1 community in another server wing needed gold, a side account would transfer over to that wing and donate the gold.
Weekly GDKPs are one offs and the loot master who has the gold and gear before splitting (unless specified) doesn’t keep a % or take out a certain amount of gold out of the complete pot unless its something like ‘tank / respec fee’ and its generally told in the invites and during the raid.
The general consensus with GDKPs are that the raid leaders take a % as admin fee which can be anywhere between 0-15%. Some leaders are pumping 5+ raids per week with pots being above 70k (for p2/p3 content) so you can imagine how much gold those raid leaders are amassing over the course of a phase.
The problem with the WoW token is still that the gold generated to buy the tokens people sell, largely comes from Bots. The token doesn’t fix the problem for anyone but Blizzard, because the inflation rate it creates due to bots tanks the economy just as badly. Then everyone has to buy the tokens anyway.
Adding WoW tokens will make the prices go up not down.
