Gold inflation is RMT created

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Who wants to do a GDKP, me, me, me. Obtains gold through GDKP. Has gold to spend, but wants an alt to PvP with.

Who wants a boost?, me, me, me. Buys boost. Gets leveled.

Who needs gold to buy stuff in GDKPs? Me, me, me. Buys gold by swiping.

Who needs consumables for raiding? Me, me, me.

Gold sellers / boosters: let’s raise the prices on all commodities so they are forced to swipe more.

Goes to AH, manipulates markets, people still buy. Shocking. Then they go swipe for more good.

Let’s continue to sell boosts at a higher price. Done. They still pay it!! Shocking.

Let’s raise gold prices, they still pay it…… shocking.

Players: let’s raise GDKP min bids so compensate: yay it worked, until you wanna buy something. Go swipe again.

Gold sellers laugh their way to the bank with mommy’s credit cards.

If you guys think for a second it’s not a market manipulation you are so naive it’s pathetic. Yet you’re still swiping, and you’re still paying. It doesn’t take an economist to see you are being played for a fool. And you obviously don’t care.

Good luck dudes!

Player created problem and y’all deserve it.

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GDKP does not, in itself, create gold.

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Gold cant be converted from dollars. it is extracted from the game itself only.

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It’s a 4 year old server. The amount of gold generated from the game will always be larger than the amount drained from gold sinks. Sure the botting exacerbates that but paying USD doesn’t directly generate gold. For the average player, the inflation does nothing except make low level gold sinks easier to obtain. If the prices of materials inflate then farming those inflated materials becomes a viable farm. My lv54 druid that I have been casually leveling and not actively trying to make gold on is sitting on about 1500 gold, and that is with me buying every single skill. Prices are inflated, sure, but gold is so easy to obtain in-game even outside GDKPS. You all love to whine about inflation when it doesn’t even impact you at all.

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I think you’ve maybe misunderstood what’s happening. Inflation is a natural effect over time of introducing more gold into the market, which happens with or without RMT. Unfortunately, RMT greatly accelerates this because it’s driving more gold to be introduced into the economy than would normally occur. To meet the demands of gold buyers, bots are working 24/7 generating gold. Without that there would be significantly smaller amounts and inflation wouldn’t have progressed as quickly as it did.

There’s not really any market manipulation required here, it stems solely from the fact that players would rather buy gold than play the game to acquire it themselves. Until that mentality changes, or Blizzard actively works to put a stop to these behaviours, this is sadly not likely to change.

As you said…

:frowning:

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GDKP is one of the biggest causes of inflation right up there with population growth. Those providing GDKP groups produce nothing and consume like a drunken hooker. This encourages more botting which interferes with those actually farming. The same also applies to boosters. As the op noted manipulation of the AH is also part of the problem. A shining example of why Anti-Trust Laws are so important in the real world.

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Actually it kind of does. The amount of gold currently in the WoW economy is a direct result of players willingness to pay for it. Bots run constantly to meet that demand which are generating much more gold than would naturally occur.

This right here should immediately clue you in that something isn’t right. There’s just so much gold in the economy right now that you can acquire a lot more than you normally would. From a normal gameplay perspective this seems quite high. I mean, you’re 54 and already have to buy your epic mount with a significant amount of change leftover, right?

Not quite… that amount of gold, from an in-game economy perspective, is actually quite low. For context, the price of a flask is 500g on my cluster, which I’m given to understand is on the lower end. Your 1500g doesn’t seem like so much anymore.

Legit players have access to a lot more gold than they would have as a result of RMT accelerated inflation, but the value of that gold is significantly less than it would have been without RMT accelerated inflation. What you’re asserting is a high amount of gold is actually not very high at all.

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By player created problem, do you mean because we support Blizzard?

Blizzard introduced the token aka allows RMT.

Blizzard is responsible for managing bots and gold sellers/buyers.

Blizzard is responsible for instilling penalties to players who break terms of service.

Blizzard is responsible for charging subscriptions and providing a “service” but not enforcing terms of service.