not true, gdkps incentivize people to actually try and stick around to the end. ever have someone leave after their soft rez doesnt drop? yea… Im not for RMT at all best believe
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Sure. I’ve never GDKP’d, RMT’d, or Botted myself, so I don’t really know one way or the other.
I’m sure a lot of GDKPs are funded by gold buyers and that that in turn feeds back into botting. But I’m not entirely convinced that getting rid of GDKPs would get rid of the gold buyers or the bots either.
Personally, as an outsider to that whole ‘scene’, it seems more like to me that GDKPs, Gold Buying, and Botting are all attracted to the same thing… High Population.
You think that because there are not bots on your server, there’s no GDKPs on your server. Maybe there’s a correlation there, but personally I think it’s just more likely that your server isn’t big enough to attract botters OR GDKP raids.
Not that the GDKP raids are waiting for the bots, but rather that they’re concentrated on the highest population servers, just like botters are.
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GDKPs and those who participate and encourage them are a cancer to the server
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not true at all. at least you get gold if you dont win rolls/nothing drops. failed logic
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I’ve played WoW on and off since original Wrath. I’ve seen bots since the very beginning. I had literally never heard of GDKP until Classic
That’s all I have to contribute to the topic
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Maybe people just don’t like you OP
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I typically report them, because there’s also a link with it, and the word budget a lot, so I report for cheating. It’s also funny cuz armory exists, and I can see the leads 500g of boe’s.
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My server is one of the Full servers for SoD, so I’m doubting your assumption/theory.
I dont think anyone says that botting/rmt will go away entirely if GDKP is banned/against ToS.
I have heard plenty of people say that the botting/'rmt problem will be greatly reduced if gdkp is banned/against ToS.
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Yeah, it really feels like the hatred towards bots has transferred over somewhat unfairly to GDKPs.
Do GDKPs offer another avenue through with gold buying players can sell their illegally purchased gold? Yes. But does that make GDKPs the root cause of the evil? I wouldn’t think so.
That’s like saying Blizzard should ban the AH. Or Enchanting as a profession. Because you can bet your gold buyers are going on the AH and buying their bis off the AH. And you can bet they’re tipping whatever enchanter they find a lot of money to get their gear enchanted.
There are a lot of ways to make gold in this game. And botters are milking every last one of them in order to turn that gold into real money. GDKPs are one avenue through which they CAN potentially do so.
But GDKPs aren’t the root of botting/gold buying evil. Its just that we can’t count on Blizzard to put the time and effort into truly cracking down on bots on a permanent basis. So players redirect their anger and frustration towards things they can alter/change, like mass reporting GDKP advertisements.
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LFG is for looking for players to play content, not for you to try and vacuum up gold buyer gold.
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There’s full and then there’s “Oh we had over 100,000 people try to log onto this server on opening day, oh god”
Only one SOD server needed to be locked for three days. Crusader Strike is the mega-server of SOD, so it makes sense that with the highest population concentrated there, everything is more prevalent on it.
That said, google gold buying websites and check any of the first page results… all of them are selling gold on every SoD server. So I think maybe you’re the one making an assumption about just how many bots are on your server. Because if the gold sellers are there, you can bet the bots are too.
And in fact, doesn’t that then prove your point wrong? The bots are on your server, the gold sellers are on your server. The GDKPs aren’t, according to you. So I guess GDKPs don’t create the botting/RMT problem after all?
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No one ever said they weren’t. I said that they are less prevalent, which is 100% accurate. Do I still see bots? yes. But do I see hordes of bots farming mobs everywhere? no.
I mean… I’m on Crusader Strike and neither do I?
The reason you don’t see them is because they’re all in dungeons. On Horde side, there are mage bots in RFC fly hacking and selling boosting servers.
On Alliance side, there are rogue bots in Stockades fly hacking and pickpocketing every mob before resetting.
I’ve seen a handful of bots out in the world on Crusader Strike and I’ve reported them all of course, but botting out in the world doesn’t make nearly as much gold as botting in dungeons does for them.
You’ve got just as bad a botting problem as Crusader Strike more than likely, it’s just somewhat invisible because of dungeons.
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we are looking for players to play content? just because its not your preferred method doesnt mean you should mass report. maybe ignore sure
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You’re not fooling anyone. You’re purposefully soaking up gold buyer money, and the customer isn’t playing anything. You’re no different than a gold seller or gold buyer. And you’ll rightfully keep getting reported for it.
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Take the hintz blizzard won’t do anything about you, but the community is. Gdkp is only good for gold buyers, the best way to get gear unless you rmt is to join a core raid group.
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GDKP Promote gold buyer, GDKPers defend GDKP so they can enjoy the perks of not farming gold and still claim they dont buy goal and ur a noob if you do it, so yea take the GDKP out of the circle and you will see people buying gold will go down drasticly. its legit RMT undercover.
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So be fair 3 of my friends farmed for FAPS and are rolling in gold. It is do able but not for the common adult who didnt get to retire early.
Most of you will be working until 60 and thats sad.
YOu mean you are looking for buyers, PLayers would involve them actually playing the game instead of playing their credit cards.
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what about players that farm gold naturally and want to gear up an alt?