Still waiting on that link about an interview with a Blizzard employee where they state what percent of the player base buys gold.
I mean it has to exist because you said it exists right?or were you just pulling claims out of thin air?
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Your position is that GDKP isnât a service that sells BoP items to players for gold. Your justification is that the gold that the buyer pays is distributed across the rest of the raid, so it isnât a sale, despite them paying the raid gold so they could take the item (lol what??).
The profit from a service is distributed across the servicers in any over the table transaction ever. Anyone with half a brain can suss out the flaws in your argument, and Iâm done trying to help you become one.
Gg nice troll 
My position is that GDKPs and boosting are wholly apart from one another, because one involved a direct pay-for-thing transaction, and the other distributes gold amongst the participating raiders.
If I were to pay a group to outright carry me, that would be boosting. Thatâs not whatâs happening here.
Your adamant refusal to accept that thereâs a difference doesnât mean Iâm just trying to get under your skin.
Everyone is expected to participate and perform in a GDKP group. The entire point is so that players can have something to show for their time and effort if they donât get their item.
Anyone with half a brain can spot the difference. You refuse to solely that you can justify abusing the report system to punish players for engaging in an activity that Blizzard has said doesnât violate the ToS. That doesnât make you smart, it means youâre lying to justify bullying.
You simply donât know what youâre talking about. Pure buyers vs carries. Youâre new. Itâs okay to be wrong.
Easy to feel bullied when your argument is about as sound as âwater isnât wet because it canât get wetâ.
Youâre relying on an assumption that GDKPs are overwhelmingly carry runs. This simply isnât the case from what Iâve seen.
Your argument is that pooling gold together and distributing it is a buy-sell transaction, which simply isnât true.
Iâve made a post in the customer support forum asking for clarification. Hopefully weâll have an answer somewhat soon.
Iâm still 100% sure youâre just attempting to justify bullying players who do things you donât like.
I farmed all my gold, about 500g in RFK, and I did my first GDKP yesterday. got 4 bis in one run, for under 100g. twilight slayers cowel for 20g, chest for 40g, trinket for 8g, trident for 5g. prior to this, I did six runs and didnt get a single drop, lost to everyones rolls. I will say⌠I am a big fan of GDKP. Never bought gold in my life. IDK why people are hating on it. Iâd rather spend hours farming gold, and getting the items I want, than losing to luck.
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You can easily farm gold by selling on the AH to people who do buy gold.
But we cant bring up the AH!
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To be honest noone got warned or suspended because of âfalse reportâ or âabusiveâ, while some GDKP advertisers were. So they 'll keep reporting GDKP advertisers.
Iâm neutral, sometimes do pug, sometimes join GDKPs too. But itâs not a big prob for me if GDKP 's gone or not.
Thatâs likely because itâs not going to be part of the automated system.
Blizzard has said that GDKPs donât violate ToS, so they arenât going anywhere. The current debate seems to be whether or not Trade or LFG is the appropriate channel to post them, but players who are against GDKPs existing will report them whether theyâre compliant with rules or not.
I think they were reported and be warned because of âadvertisementâ in LFG
Ban gold buying outright, on first offense.
In the meantime, I have no problem with people catching bans for taking part in an unnecessary loot system directly and powerfully associated with RMT
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GDKP should be kept out of sight, like it should be.
Out in Trade, youâre getting a report.
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That would be a false report. GDKPs do not violate the ToS, and the consensus appears to be that trade is where such ads go.
Nope, not in my 19 on-and-off years of playing have I ever received a warning for it, not once.
GDKPs stay outta trade, or get a report, simple as.
The blue posts I get back sometimes are worth it.
I really donât care, just want them gone.
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That doesnât change the fact that youâre reporting players who arenât breaking any rules. That is a violation of the ToS.
Well you shouldnât have joined team GDKP and promoting botting and RMT then.
You get what you get.
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GDKPs arenât botting or RMT. Telling you that youâre violating the ToS by filing false reports is defending neither.
Botting and RMT could cease existing tomorrow, and GDKPs would still be a thing. Youâre just bullying players for doing something you donât like, and reaching for justification.
If you donât like them, thatâs fine - you donât have to participate, and you can put players advertising them on ignore, but reporting an activity Blizzard has outright said doesnât break any rules is knowingly issuing false reports.
Talk to the hand. 
These exist because of people buying/swiping for GDKP.
Your paragraphs explaining otherwise, donât really matter.
Players are gonna take the path of least resistance, and GDKP only has ground because people can take othersâ gold and not play the game (farming) and leave it to the bots.
All GDKP players are sacrificing the game for their own enjoyment.
Who will farm for gold if youâve gotten enough pots of gold to sit on?
You think players are gonna go out in the world and do stuff manually instead of waiting at the AH with all their gold instead?
It makes botting even stronger.
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This does not exist because of GDKP. This existed well before GDKP, would exist without GDKP, exist on servers that donât have GDKP, and exist in games that have nothing like GDKP.
The solution to RMT is to ban RMT permanently on detection. RMT could stop existing tomorrow, and there would still be GDKPs. To say that GDKPs are a sole driver of RMT is an outright denial of observable reality.
In my 19 years of wow on and off like you I have never been suspended or banned for doing gdkps.
Clearly majority of gdkps donât have RMT in them.