Every gdkp server youd join would have 1 or 2 randoms, sometimes even the organisers messaging you asking if you wanted to buy gold. During those runs if people didnt have enough to bid, people would tell them to message them for gold and they could work something out.
We all had to do a GDKP or two in wrath to afford consumes / items for legendaries and this is what blizzard is trying to eliminate. The damned if you do, damned if you dont.
If GDKP and RMT didnt go hand in hand they wouldnt feel the need to see what impact it had on botting numbers and RMT numbers if they banned it. You can do a quick /who of popular botting spots on both sod and era, remembering sod still has the much higher player base.
Guess which server has more bots though? The one that still allows GDKPS.
I don’t know if this is much to go by, since SoD killed most reasons to go out into the world and there’s been a lot more raidlogging going on in SoD.
On a side note, people will compare SoD and Era populations but they don’t realize that the amazing thing about Era’s population is its consistency, especially for how long it’s been around.
There are pros and cons to GDKPs, but I think outright banning it was a huge mistake. If this ban remains, SoD will never ever have the consistency or longevity that Era has.
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Only “kind of” funny? I know something VERY funny. You.
You who directly partnered up with gold sellers to run your GDKP boosting operation. You were fully complicit in and contributed to your gold selling partners’ business in order to have your GDKPs constantly infused with RMT whales. You’re the exact type of player that Blizzard bans for your relations with RMT. You’re the type of player that messed it up for everyone else. Now you’re here with insinuations? Hypocrite.