GDKPs on whitemane seem like probably half or more of the pugs that are spammed in /lfg for uld. Presumably this means that the problem is affecting half of the raids on our server. In our server GDKP discord, which doesn’t include random popup gdkps or guilds that simply don’t use the server, it looks like we have like 2-7 gdkps a night hitting 1-5x gold cap pots.
GDKPs being inefficient caused our server to create the Walmane discord, which is a community with roughly 2000 people online at any given time. Classic is meant to be bringing communities back to servers and this does exactly that, thanks to gdkps we have a huge collection of people we get to play with again. Very much the essence of classic.
As an old-school, fair GDKP runner, you have brought this problem down on yourselves. This stuff is why we don’t accept presales, or take an additional org cut. And we filter out known gold buyers. Sure we might have smaller pots, but we’ll never have this problem.
Exactly. Changing anything now would just hurt the people either joining late or doing things legit. It’s way too far gone with how they let botters and gold sellers run rampant for over 2 expansions.
No, but the success of GDKPs encourage gold buying which means you are at the very least perpetuating the problem. Which is also on Blizzard to police better, but they don’t. You up the gold cap you just make things easier and continue to encourage pushing prices higher and higher.
Honestly, not even sure what all that gold is for at this point. We waiting on WoW tokens to come to classic or something? Raid consumables aren’t that expensive, and if you’re selling all this high priced stuff you can get it for yourself whenever you want it.
Not sure what the point of saying this is. If you’re cheating you’re not going to say it, and if you’re not cheating you’re going to say you’re not cheating. Your answer isn’t going to sway anyone with half a brain.
GDKPs is Classic’s version of boosting, and Blizzard cracked down on boosting late in SL because even though every. single. booster. said they were gold only Blizzard came out and said boosting had too much real life cash flow in it which is why they started cracking down on them (not sure how successful they were, but they did do something). It shouldn’t have surprised anyone because they were moving MASSIVE amounts of gold all for seemingly no purpose other than to just have gold for the sake of having gold.
Maybe you’re legit, maybe you’re not. There’s tons of dirty money out there via GDKPs and I don’t really have a problem with Blizzard making your life harder at this point given how ludricrously high the costs already are because of how rampant gold buying is. I honestly have no problem with GDKPs as a concept but given how poorly gold buying is regulated they should probably just try to curtail it somehow and then we can all laugh when gold prices plummet because suddenly gold is a lot a less valuable.
that’s actually not “exactly” why gbanks were added to the game, there is no problem with the gold cap limit, the only problem is people selling in game upgrades for way over their value due to a lot of things that have to do with real money, whether you believe you do anything with that or not…
this was designed this way to deter people like you
the perception that pugs in /lfg are a majority of ulduars going on is why you are thinking incorrectly. any other evidence is simply anecdotal
2000 people is a very small portion of what the actual playerbase on whitemane seems to be because of tactics like you use, which is actually a detriment to the essence of classic, regardless of whether or not you think the collection of people is huge, it could be bigger
Groups like this sell it for real money (edit: or trade it for crypto since they can then say that it’s not a sale for real money), but they (and Blizzard) get mad when you talk about it.
