No lol, your lack of ability to make friends is not the norm. I dont care how hard you guys beat each other off. It’s not. Go back to retail with the rest of the guildless losers. The majority of non tourist’s join guilds, many bad ones but they still do. If this isn’t something you enjoy, stop playing vanilla.
I know, I know I am on FIRE today with my cringe analogies. But try to be honest with yourself on this one. Lets say you put your car up for auction. Your car is basically worth lets say 20k. Some guy comes around and just happens to want your exact model car. He ends up bidding 100k. Before the auction you saw this guy appear to be making some suspicious deal in an alley way around the corner. You just walked past but you are pretty sure it was some sort of illegal activity. Anyways he buys your car cash 100k, the bills are good and the bank clears it all. You still take the money right? I mean its not your job to police what this guy does thats illegal. You got paid fat and are happy right? Or are you gonna not accept that money and go to the police and say hey I think this money is coming from something illegal. I dont really have much proof but yeah…
Well not really. There is only a few ways to inject gold into the game. That’s quests and raw gold (gold drops and vendored items). All other forms of farming is just exchanging currency.
Bots / farmers inject more raw gold into the economy, there for increasing costs. Classic era is a great example of this, the longer it goes on the more expensive things get. Yes you can go farm yourself and get higher prices for items of demand, but raw gold farms and quests become less valuable as prices rise as they are a fixed price.
It gets to the point when if you want to use consumes in a raid or enchant your gear etc you need to either compete for high value items yourself against the farmers and bots or swipe your card. That’s because quests and other raw gold farms are no longer worth your time.
Not really this all will happen and gdkp is not sole issue but ita part of the issue.
Thats just not true.
We literally ahve all the evidence of this playing 3 versions of classic.
Raiding was expensive in Classic, then it was cheaper in TBCC then it was even cheaper in WOTLK-C.
Yet if what you say is true by the time Benediction hit WOTLK-C prices should of SKYROCKETED, yet they didnt, its literally the cheapest iteration of the game to raid in for consumeables yet Benedediction has far more gold on its server than it did in Classic.
Youre comparing era and thats not fair, era is dead, the bots have all left which is why the prices are so high on era and ONLY era.
Why would the majority of bots stay on era when TBCC launched when the vast majority of players moved on, then when wotlk-c those bots moved to wotlk.
What youre seeing it literally only unique to Era, the other versions have all gotten far cheaper to raid on even tho the surplus of gold has drastically increased.
ICC gdkps have literally 1,000,000+ gold pots, yet raid consumes are like 12g/ea rofl
gdkps do not increase the cost of things on the server, its just factually not true.
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When TBC dropped yes era was dead and you know what? Everything was stupid cheap. About 6 months or so before HC dropped area was poping off again and guess what… everything became super expensive again, there was bots everywhere and GDKP and boosts rittled trade chat.
I duno if you were just in different spheres but era was not dead until HC and probably now with SoD.
trying to compare tbc / wotlk to SoD when they’re literally different games is far less effective as comparing classic / era to SoD as they’re essentially the same game, same economy etc.
Wotlk and TBC weren’t as consume reliant as classic is. There isn’t a Black lotus in those games. Theres no WB in those games. You don’t have the Uber market etc.
You tip 50g on era for an enchant. Like 20g for summons etc.
Inflation is literally the reduction of worth of currency due to increased circulation supply.
Its the amount of gold on the server but its dictated by the supply of the server.
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Not advocating playing on private servers, just sharing my knowledge of Turtle WoW. They have solved / nearly eliminated many of the issues you have brought up. GDKP is banned, pathing in popular boosting instances have been changed to make mage solo farm impossible. Any form of botting / rmt is heavily policed by GMs.
These are possible solutions, but that would mean Blizzard would have to invest in having actual GMs and man power to police and punish things. Currently they just use automated systems and ban waves to make the appearance of doing something since it doesn’t cost them anything. At the end of the day Blizz is a publicly traded corporation whos goal is to maximize profits. I can guarantee the top brass could give a damn about RMT and botting since its all subscription revenue. If you want to see change people will have to unsubscribe until these issues are addressed. Nothing will change unless their revenue is affected.
One thing you left out, the T WoW community as a whole does not tolerate this.
It’s not just GMs and the devs, but the players take a stand as well.
Where are these gdkps? Im 2 off bis from pugging and I havnt had a problem getting into groups and I havnt seen any gdkps. Sure peeps are asking for prebis and consumes/boon but Personally i havnt seen any gdkps and ive been pugging since the 3rd reset.
Oh my God retail andys are quoting turtle. I’m gonna die. You guys know it’s the butt of the joke of the entire pserver world right? The most dead server? Like the eastern euro servers rag on it 
. They have some of the most corrupt gms and delete forum/disc threads on the reg.
You’ve given me the confidence to just start making things up too.
Anti gdkp andys abduct and eat children. They post here to distract and slide. Never forget!
Yes it’s true. GDKPs are ripe with gold selling and buying. They should be banned.
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As is the auction house. Humbert’s Helm for 50g? Troll Leggings for 200g?
Consumables? If you buy gold you also buy consumables with it, and I would bet that’s why most people buy gold, not to go to GDKPs
Lets ban the auction house first! Auction house launders more gold than the GDKPs!
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Boosting isn’t new.
Also you’re describing what happens when everyone has easy access to gold without gold sinks.
Moving on.
the only way to stop gold selling is to perma ban gold buyers, you kill the gold industry by removing the demand. But blizzard will just introduce token instead because they love paycows to milk.
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If you need to cheat in a 20yr old game, maybe you should just admit to yourself you aren’t good and move on.
GDKP, Boosting, Botting, and Gold Selling/buying is all cheating. ALL of these things DEPEND on Gold Buying and should be 1st time PERMANENTLY BANNABLE offenses.
Please do the community a favor and REPORT ALL of these cheaters in-game. Thanks!
The difference is boosting involves 1 idiot and 1 smart person.
GDKPs involve dozens of smart people all trying to scam each other and the rest of the server to maximize their fake currency allocation.
Yikes you are clueless
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The problem is blizzard bans gold buyers for 3-7 days which is not a penalty of any sort and it doesnt deter pay to win dads from buying gold, further more they introduce token to wow classic which normalizes gold buying.
There would need to be perma bans or at least a 1+year ban for gold buying to make any form of impact on the wow rmt. But the ugly truth is like majority of mmos WoW is too interested in p2w dad whales paycows, because those are the same people that will pay for multiple account, buy epic editions, store mounts, skins etc.
The fact is that WoW classic has 0integrity and it is just as much of a pay to win game as majority of mmos, even though its acting all high and mighty. The token and paid boost in classic wow is just a matter of time till it makes it into SoD/Classic+.
Blizzard no longer cares about player they care about payers.
Gdkps have almost nothing to do with this, gold buying was prevelent long before gdkps were a thing. Dkps and gdkps are simply the most balanced loot system we have at this point thats why it is most popular.
You could say it incentives gold buying, but so does 100% mounts of crafted items or boost are you gonna remove those too? Classic gold use to be valuable, but nowadays its just a swiper paradise with 0integrity, try to focus on other aspects of the game and ignore the fact that gold has no value and the game has no intergrity against cheaters.
You guys dont have wallets?
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GDKP nor boosting requires RMT, just playing the game you should have plenty of gold for anything. I’ve been fishing for a couple of days and I’m swimming in gold.
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