Gold sinks don’t cause RMT. They are a necessary part of the game. They take gold out of the economy. Things like an expensive mount, dual spec with a high cost, etc.
The gold goes into oblivion, not into someone’s pockets. That is why it’s called a gold sink. The gold is deleted from the game.
Buying gold is against TOS and people are now being banned for it.
The only reason 95% of people bought gold was for GDKPs. Since GDKPs are banned 95% of RMT is gone.
filled only waylaid boxes turn-ins is pretty bad tho, it’s an anti-catch up mechanism
edit: I’m dumb and it’s not a gold sink
I will say, that any gold bought to buy something like mount training and a mount, is better than gold bought to spend in a GDKP run. Because gold going to a vendor gets deleted from the economy, before it even hits the economy.
Yep that’s true it never affects the economy.
I’d just edit and say RMT don’t cause inflation, they may cause RMT for the laziest of the laziest people, but they don’t cause inflation
If even one person buys gold to get their mount then it is technically true that gold sinks cause RMT.
True, but it’s RMT in a way that doesn’t really negatively affect those who don’t buy gold. In demonstrable ways, I mean. Sure, if there’s a proverbial boatload of people who all buy gold to buy mounts it’ll increase the cost of gold, but that doesn’t really negatively affect the people who arent buying gold.
Consumables dont take gold out of the economy.
Or professions, BOE items which some of them are BIS at level 40.
So yeah, people will still buy lots of gold and it will still cause inflation.
Have a nice one!
No one said consumes are a gold sink.
But there will be less bought gold being injected into the economy. Because a driver of gold buying is banned, which reduces that driver drastically. The idea that there always has to be the exact same amount of gold being bought, so the other drivers will somehow fill in a gap that’s being left from GDKPs being banned, is wrong. It’s not how this economy works.
I’m also not sure why I have to keep reminding y’all of this, but the war against bots, gold buying, and RMT isn’t new. It’s existed all through the history of this game, and has been a constant fight. One which blizzard has developed and enacted various systems and policies to fight.
So no, banning GDKPs doesn’t have to completely eliminate gold buying for the ban to be effective. No more than laws against murder need to totally eliminate murder to be effective.
I really have to wonder about the kind of myopia needed to lie to yourself like that.
RMT was a huge problem well before the rise of GDKPs, destabilized server economies that had no GDKPs, and remains a problem in games that have nothing like GDKPs.
GDKPs are/were likely a contributing factor, but far from the only one. Additionally, gold sinks are good, yes - but locking fundamental game features behind them is less so. Vanity or even QoL features, fine.
Who has said they are the only factor that drives gold buying and RMT?
The OP did in claiming that 95% of RMT came from GDKPs.
95% equates to a totality?
Very nearly.
But not a totality. Which you responded to a claim of totality.
If you want to rail against hyperbole, don’t exaggerate the exaggeration.
5% is a comparatively insignificant figure, carrying with it the implicit assertion that RMT would be a non-factor if not for GDKPs. You know that, OP knew that, you’re just playing semantic games. If it made you feel cool, then grats, I guess?
95% isn’t a totality. You know that, I know that, OP knows that.
So if you want to be taken seriously be anyone with the ability to recognize the use of hyperbole, don’t exaggerate the exaggeration. You’re just playing semantic games. If it made you feel cool, then grats, I guess?
If you want to pretend that implicit assertions don’t matter, then fine, you can have your gotcha. It is in no way hyperbole to say that a 95% reduction of RMT would result in anything other than it being functionally meaningless as a problem or issue, which was the entire point.
It’s a juvenile rhetorical trick and isn’t particularly clever. If you need to feel like you scored a PvP win, then fine, whatever.
All the bots running around at the moment would disagree with this opinion.