Thats its main drive and how its most commonly advertised so yes, many if not most GDKPs are a form of paid boosting. Ticket runs are the most egregious examples of this, but most GDKPs these days make a clear split between ‘carries’ who will play and ‘pure buyers’ who’ll just AFK and get loot, no different from those sitting in stratholme or slave pens.
1 Like
Nice! I’m sitting at about 23k gold at the moment. I have lots of friends and guildmates who have lots more gold than me, who have not bought gold. I know one guy is at like 75k.
Those gdkps where my items didn’t drop, or I got outbid are helpful for earning more gold.
RMT gold is Not Allowed.
Sounds like someone its pointing the finger at themselves. Im sitting on 10k gold from all my crafting so ah ya your point is? Turn a blind eye because you do gdkps I really could careless. Its no different than boosting. Except boosting is cheaper.
That is not how most gdkps are advertised, or how they work. Sure, you’ll find “pure buyers” in Phase 1 content. And yeah, in some gdkps you’ll find a pure buyer or 2 in Phase 3 content. Maybe you even see 1 pure buyer in a ZA. So yeah, you might see some pure buyers in old content.
But why do we assume that they bought gold? (I assume some number of them have, too, btw.) I have a buddy who put his 5th lvl 70 character through some gdkps, spent about 25k gold in total, because he wanted to be geared in BT/ZA gear for the start of wotlk. He has a lot more than 25k gold, and did not buy it through RMT.
So maybe we should assume some people legitimately earned a lot more gold than we think they did.
??? Okay? And? This isn’t rmt gold.
The whole point is that gold you have piled up is from people who RMT , What don’t you get here?
Blackstone’s ratio is a foreign concept to some
1 Like
They took boosting away because it affected the econ. Ticket runs and lets say some Gdkps are worse. Im just going to guess but if you were to boost a toon to 60 its maybe what 3k? How much is a ZA ticket run? Then if the buyer wants loot. I dont see a difference. I dont care if people do GDPKS or ticket runs then why are the same people saying boosting is bad for the game? lol its an oxymoron.
my point is if you think gdkps should be removed then your wrong, just because someone bought gold doesnt mean it should mean the gdkp groups should get banned. People who run GDKP’s dont go out to people telling them to buy gold. its a individuals decision which should be the individual getting punished, not the gdkp groups. plus assuming everyone buys gold is a ridiculous opinion. Boosters dont tell people to buy gold from what ive seen.
Show us any sort of proof you have
How do you know? How do you know that the gold I earned was not from other players who earned it legitimiately? If I can make 10-15k of my own gold kind of casually playing for 5 months. Why couldn’t someone seriously playing for 3 years earn… who knows how much? 100k? 400k?
No one is saying people dont earn gold. That being said whos to say the guy boosting didnt earn his gold??? Its an alt???
On topic: Are GDKPs a form of boosting? Yes, like the ones blizzard shut down in retail (or tried to, anyways). Should they be punished the way other forms of boosting are? Probably, but I’ve no idea what would work or how to punish non-participating buyers without screwing others who are merely bad at the game.
Thats correct but thats correct. Blizzard says different. Boosting= buying gold. Point blank. So i was saying is whats the difference??
So I get your point, but would make a specific distinction…
I would not consider 25 people participating in a gdkp to be “boosting.” If these 25 people are participating in the raid, then its just raiding. They are clearing content, earning gear, earning gold.
Is someone who is very undergeared, but still participating in a gdkp, but who won’t get a cut, being boosted? Well that’s harder to say. If they are participating, I could see how people would say it is or isn’t boosting.
If someone is afk in a raid… well yeah, that’s obviously boosting, right?
Idk how blizz could make a rule, or enforce one either. Where that line is would be very difficult to determine.
plz show me this link where getting boosted means buying gold? how do they know i didnt farm this gold from quest or through mining/herbalism/etc? Is there some solid proof they know of how the income came to be?
Your going full on cut off my nose to spite my face
It would be interesting to see where Blizzard has offically said Boosting = Buying Gold. I’m guessing they never actually said this so plainly, and you are making assumptions about things they have said.
Im not saying it should be banned. I am saying just like people can exploit paying for a boost. Thay can do the same with a ZA ticket run or a GDKP. This was blizzards reasoning for the ban.