They banned it because it’s part of the slow steps they’re taking to put the token into classic
Think I’m joking? Look at all the sudden outburst and YouTube content etc over bots. The dude who got irl threats etc
Blizz will say they’re adding it for safety of players and to compete vs bots and reduce them etc
Ppl fuel bots by buying gold and banning gdkp prevents that gold making, putting more pressure on bots to deliver. Then when you least expect it, token comes
I mean bots are literally mass reporting ppl now thru their little discord channels. It’s to the point where bots weaponize against players. You bet they’ll bring in the token
I don’t think you’re following along… and I use to think exactly this also…
BUT
On Whitemane we have a very active PVE community and we have GDKP; they are a very large portion of our Pug raids (not guild raids).
However also on Whitemane we have virtually zero bots and that indicates we have next to zero gold buyers.
Meanwhile on Anniversary we have more bots than ever existed on the entirety of 2019 while also having far smaller player base. For example WMC (whitemane Cluster) in 2019 was simply a larger server than Night Slayer is right now with all its layers.
However contrast this to the truly insane number of bots on Night Slayer now VS WMC back then and you guys on NS have no kidding an order of magnitude more bots but at the same time GDKP is fully banned on NS server.
However back in 2019 on WMC we had GDKP and it was obviously common in chat for pugs. (I raided with a real guild; I normally do not pug) and at the same time on WMC we had some bots but nothing like what is happening on NS server…
My question is WHY are people buying so much gold on NS when GDKP is fully banned?
Following that question the logical conclusion that any reasonable person would come to is Gold buying = buying mounts and consumables and this is the real use of gold by coiners.
It also stands to reason we were Wrong about GDKP its direct tie to gold inflation in game VIA gold buyers.
Believe me, we had a bot invasion in 2023 but the players of WMC took a stand and we harshly punished them daily and they got ban after ban. But on NS the demand for gold is so high that your bots just pop back up like the heads of a hydra.
There is no need for bots farming gold when the server has been up for 5+ years and the players have an absurd amount of gold. Guess who is selling the gold. Bingo, its the gdkp organizers and probably some of the carries as well.
Lol
have you never gone to BRD or Dire Maul on whitemane?
There’s a constant flood of unguilded Hunters, rogues, and mages zoning in and out of those instances.
Every version of WoW is full of cheaters(gold buyers) because people think that because Blizzard sells the token on other versions of the game that it’s okay to buy 3rd party gold on the versions that don’t.
WAS… We have slayed them all. Both Horde and allies; they do try and repopulate but we smoke them within a day or two of detection.
Right now there are ZERO bots in UBRS, BRD or Diremaul.
There are players in the instances, but they’re unlikley to be bots excluding MAYBE one Spriest looks a little suspect.
Meanwhile there are dungeons and raids looking for members to run the content. TLDR we do not have a botting problem because we do not have a gold buying problem; this appears to be unique to Anniversary and SoD.
When you can make 5K in a single AQ40 why buy gold? I seriously do not understand why anyone would ever consider buying when you can make the gold in GKDP or on the AH so easily.
Yup, I recently made a new mage to replace the one I lost to Wrath / TBC / Cata… and by the time I got to level 60 I was already R9, with 1600 gold after paying for my class skills and epic mount and mats for enchants.
But according to the clowns in the forums you gotta buy gold…
I’m not saying you wouldn’t have them there but the majority of your organization out of 100% of your resources I would put at least 95% on something that’s new like fresh
Not anymore lol… You cannot transfer on Era anymore at all; everything is shut down.
The botters were able to infest dead realms and dodge us until Blizzard ended the transfers and after that they did make an attempt but PVP’rs were informed and orders went out for their extermination. Botting is simply not tolerated on WMC at all; we hunt them down, kill them and report them in mass so that they can not get established to ruin our economy.
Furthermore why buy gold when you can simply get gold honestly on the AH or in GDKP?