When u get paid for ur work, u dont think of how the economy is affected by sex trafficking, drug deals, corruption, etc. You just accept the bill.
Will rejecting the bill change any of the other issues?
I dont get how GDKP ban will enforce rules for illegal activities. The demand will be there, because gold already plummeted it’s value to half, u will see the inflation in next 2 weeks.
Ppl are already breaking the rules by buying gold using RMT, but u do think GDKP is a more banneable offense because…?
Gold demand will keep active because ppl are lazy, not GDKP. Ppl who spent doesnt want to raid, they want items. Let them have fun for a month, they will get bored and play pals things lol
GDKP is like a way to “work” ingame. what ppl does with the gold is a legal issue, not with their time…
Lot of posts on here with the same message. Since eliminating GDKP won’t 100% stop the entirety of RMT overnight why bother?
It’s possible to take multiple steps over a period of time to address a complex issue. Not everything has to be black and white. Blizzard made this change and they will be looking very closely at their data from the before/after period and see what effect it has. I’m sure if the data concludes it has no effect on RMT they will allow GDKP again.
But in the event their data shows RMT going down, even a little bit, I suspect they will make even more changes of this nature as they continue to address a difficult problem.
If Blizzard had a button they could press that would magically stop all RMT they would just press that. But they don’t - so instead they are taking what measures they can.
They release numbers periodically showing how many accounts they banned for illicit activities and the numbers are so large I have seen posts on these forums saying they don’t believe the numbers are real. If the numbers are so large as to inspire disbelief, Blizzard must be doing a pretty good job already. This is yet another step towards solving a difficult problem.
Actually there’s an interesting comparison here since you brought it up. “Women of the night” in a vacuum seems like a victimless issue: One person pays another person for a particular service. So why is it illegal? Because it incentivizes kidnapping and slavery. In a perfect world with no kidnapping and slavery, maybe it would be fine, but we don’t live in that perfect world.
Some activities that seem harmless on their face, actually are destructive because of indirect actions, not the activity itself. Other parallels can be drawn with gambling, drugs, etc.
I believe what you just did is called, moving the goalpost.
Of course, Blizzard bans bots, but it doesn’t matter. As long as pixels have a real-world value AND people are willing to pay, bots will continue to exist. Banning the gold buyers, permanently, is the only deterrent Blizzard can truly do, but they don’t do that, because those ARE paying customers.