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GDKPs are only banned on the fresh anniversary servers. You can still do GDKPs on Era.
There’s not really anything to do with gold though once you already have everything and enough consumes, because you can’t even buy tokens for game time like you can in Cata Classic or convert to Blizzard cash like you can in Retail.
If you are unable to regularly attend scheduled raids, then maybe stick to Era and GDKPs, and who knows how long fresh will last after it stops being fresh anyway.
This will be an interesting experiment.
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just think if we ban 1 thing because of RMT, we should ban the next biggest problem with RMT which is leveling/ingame boosts for gold
doesn’t make sense to police one but not the other
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Oh I see. Are in-game boosts a thing that people dislike and/or care about? Sure, let’s ban 'em.
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I dunno the whole thing seems wierd to me, like why are we caring what other people we have 0 interaction with do?
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I definitely agree they should ban these kind of boosts.
Or, maybe they don’t even need to ban them.
If they just massively reduce the amount of EXP that players gain when getting power levelled in instances like that to the point where it’s not worth it to pay for a boost, that’d work just fine too.
Anything to discourage paid levelling boosts.
Paying someone to farm for you while you sit AFK 1-60 is really really really dumb.
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May as well throw in arena carry sellers while we’re at it.
Drain the swamp for good.
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It’s an MMORPG, everything other people are doing is part of the gameplay experience for everyone.
If that player is sitting AFK in a dungeon getting boosted, it means we don’t have the opportunity to interact in the world as if they were playing the game for real.
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It just needs nerfed really, getting a run here or there by a high level was always awesome, just nerf the XP so that going in for some gear is all its good for.
Oh, and BROTHER!!!
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Sure. Banning boosting also means that you wouldn’t have the opportunity to play a class that can boost others, learn how to do that, and offer that as a service.
I can see the argument that it’s possible to automate this with software (bots), but that’s not limited to boosting. Should we also ban offering any services to other players?
Anyway, I think it’s worth noting that Blizzard is banning GDKPs for their anniversary servers, and they have for SoD. The community that the Classic developers are leaning into and catering towards (or at least hoping to appeal to) is members of the community who would like GKDPs to be banned.
It is probably reasonable to assume that the same community would like a ban on boosting, but seems like it might be unreasonable to assume that would extend to other services.
Yeah, GDKP and Boosts are part of the same core issue of monetizing and optimizing all the fun out of the game. Banning boosts and carries wouldn’t hurt my feelings in the slightest, I’d love to see them gone.
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So honestly, if you actually could ban bots, and essentially eliminate RMT, you eliminated the only reason they used to ban GDKP, So then do you void the ban? I would assume so unless the real reason the haters didn’t like it had nothing to do with RMT.
Bots and gold buying aren’t the only things wrong with GDKP, though. The entire notion of buying raid gear with gold runs contrary to the design of raids in Classic WoW. The gear inside was BoP for a reason, y’know?
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See what your saying it wasn’t about RMT to begin with, you just wanted a free ride.
what are you talking about? I want you to explain exactly what you mean by that.
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+1 for banning boosts.
I log into era, see gdkp and boost but no lfg and logout
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I thought the SOM changes for anti boosting was a bit annoying tho. I hate being sling shotted to a boss or mobs if i accidentally step on a barrel wrong. If they do it, I really hope they just make some changes to level disparities in the group. like if the booster is 10 levels higher than the other players, or something like that.
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It just seems that whatt the majority and the “angry” ones really want is to force competent raiders to come to their Pug SR raids to boost them for free loot, and know if those raiders have other options for raiding, they will do that instead, thus they had to eliminate other potentially better alternatives.
Also, no I don’t run GDKPs, just found the arguments to be rather hollow, especially after the ban in SOD, where they immediately went after anything that would show how little effort many put in and wanted to ban things like logs, and made excuses like content was easy, so no they shouldn’t need consumes and it didn’t matter if they were being carried. Also how few of them seem to be willing to join a guild and put in effort on progression.
Also we can all, well most of us, agree bots and RMT are bad, should be banned, as well as those buying gold. A good easy step to start would be killing free transfers off small servers for any character not created before Jan 1, 2024, forcing the bots onto the actual servers they are serving. This will actually be a nice thing about fresh, all the bots will be on the servers, well the HC Fresh server wont escape the problem, as it will have free transfers to the Fresh PvE server.
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Actually if you read the blue post they specifically mentioned Guilds part of the reason to ban GDKPs. Players are less incentivized to be in a guild when they can just GDKP the gear.
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All loot is free. It only becomes “paid for” in a GDKP.
I find this to be extremely difficult to believe.
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