It doesn’t need defending, but people fail to realize why GKP exists. Players want a tradable currency they can use with raid drop gear. DKP was an attempt to make one, but it’s only useful with the 1 guild running it. Outside that 1 guild, whatever points you have are useless. Even if another guild runs DKP, your points won’t transfer from guild A to guild B. It’s also easy to abuse since whoever is in charge of it can add or remove points at will. There needs to be a global currency that is useful to everyone and can’t be abused.
Well, it turns out there already was one. It’s called gold. Players realized that instead of trying to invent some silly point system, they could just use already existing gold. Blizzard could have rewarded boss kills with a TRADABLE token, but they didn’t, so players are forced to use gold.
Clowns like this are against trading gold for raid drops not realizing how illogical or hypocritical this is. Do you use the auction house? Do you buy or sell ANYTHING with other players? Then you, in effect, are saying that you yourself should be banned.
This one wants players banned for trading gold with real money, which is equally dumbfounded. Gold represents time/work, the same thing real money represents. A currency exchange is not a crime. What you’re saying is, that if you move from country A to country B, it should be illegal for them to trade the currency, because the work you did while in country A is now magically deleted. Fortunately, in the real world, they don’t do that. They’ll just trade the currency. In a game, when you do this, it’s called RMT, and there is nothing wrong with that. The only problem was Blizzard not getting revenue from it. This problem is solved by the token. Blizzard had to learn the hard way (twice) that you they shouldn’t be trying to stop RMT. They should be trying to get the revenue off it.