i suppose it may sound that way. i’m not a big fan of them, but it works to entice carries that would otherwise have no inclination to rehash old content to do exactly that.
in the long run though i don’t know why more people don’t just have a guild
And dungeon. In Wrath, mythic dungeons drop old 10 man loot. It’ll be pure GDKP.
It’s already happening in TBCC
The D in GDKP stands for dragon not dungeon.
What’s funny is most of the same arguments for LFD also work for LFR.
Let’s people avoid the hassle of forming a group and all the spam/waiting.
Can continue doing dailies while waiting.
If people don’t want to use it they can ignore it.
Helps make it possible to finish a raid if someone leaves.
If players need others to be “forced” to group with them it was a faulty social interaction.
Let’s players do content and gear without fighting DKPs
WoW is a casual game and it helps casuals who can’t dedicate scheduling their life for a video game.
whats even funnier is that you can say the exact same thigns for the game at this very moment. You can do all of this without RDF.
GDKP is only prominent because everyone is obsessed with hard reserving anything good a dungeon or raid drops
GDKP is prominent for 4 main reasons.
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It encourages a full clear to get the payout. Due to the way instance ID lockouts work trying to finish a PUG raid once a few people leave is almost impossible. GDKP gives a strong incentive to stay until the end for a full clear. This is especially important when compared to HR/SR runs where once the last boss that drops an item you want dies, there isn’t any incentive to stick around for the entire clear.
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It gives a reward even when you don’t get gear. Raid drop rates suck, and most raids you won’t get anything. GDKP makes running the raid feel better because you know even when you don’t win any loot, or nothing you want even drops, you still walk away with something worthwhile for your time.
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It encourages geared players who otherwise don’t need loot from the raid to continue running it to help clears. Increases participation and number of pug raids that happen every week since there is still value in running them on mains.
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Makes it so every raid you run that you don’t win something, you’re building gold (DKP) that makes it easier and more like I that you’ll be able to get something in the next raid.
RMT of course muddies it, and it would be a better game if RMT didn’t exist, but it plagues any online game with a significant player base.
I want RDF because its a wrath feature and is good. I am completely apathetic towards LFR. It doesn’t belong in Wrath and shouldn’t be added but I also don’t care if they decide to add it because it doesn’t hurt me in any way. If that makes any sense.
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LFR has done more damage to wow than gdkps ever could
LFR is a plague on the game and should never have been introduced to retail ever.
It is the most toxic wastepit full of awful people who afk / purposely die / learn nothing… etc etc all for a chance at a significantly lower ilvl piece of gear.
Awful awful
lovely but at the end of the day i don’t care about LFR, i don’t know why anyone would wanna pug raids, especially in wrath, i can imagine every lock out in ulduar:
rando: “hey guys what does this ‘do not push’ button do? too late i pressed it”
but if that’s what you want that’s fine i don’t care. what i do care about is lfr isn’t rdf and the comment i was replying to claimed rdf would fix raids.
What do random dungeons have to do with raid gdkps?
i know, right?
I seem to see a lot of RDF threads and haven’t seen much GDKP stuff. 
Omg Looking for Raid… 5 hours wiping at N’zoth…
I have shivers only thinking about it…
Last week we had some idiot drop 120k on naxx gear yes entry level gear that’s easily puggable.
Plagues are destroying the community
Plagues are a conspiracy.
RDF destroyed WOW’s community.
What is wrong with gdkp? Why do you care how ppl distribute loot in a raid that you are not even part of?
You dont like it so nobody else should? Do you freak out over pet battles too?
RDF does nothing about CC warriors wanting carries for gear, or reduces the incentive of raiders to carry them for the big as payout.