it has an economy but realistically the only way you’d ever know how the wow economy works is if you played wow and had a vested interest in the economy, it works completely different to a real life economy.
For example, when people quit the game, the gold they have on their character is gone forever, or is it? People quitting is literally the biggest gold sink in all of classic, no one ever mentions it though.
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Because the most active players are raiders, and raiders don’t have gathering professions, leading to a low supply of leather with a healthy demand combined with the fact that you can make thousands of gold in a couple hours with quests and archaeology.
Seriously, original cata had this EXACT same inflation and it had nothing to do with GDKP then, and doesn’t now.
Who is having a hard time finding a guild to raid with? Just today I saw no less than 12 different guilds recruiting in LFG on my server. They are constantly looking for players. On top of the fact that most of the time the GDKPs are themselves a community of players.
Which happened as far back as original TBC. In fact, the biggest hurdle I have to getting guildies to queue with me? They want their bonus satchel and would rather solo queue for a chance at mounts. Not a GDKP problem.
All banning GDKP will do in Cata is kill off more of the auxiliary population and lead to the dead servers that SoD is currently.
And this is from someone that hasn’t done a GDKP since Ulduar in Wrath Classic.
I’m already pre-bis, the only thing left for me to do is raid (which I’ve already done) or level another character (and I don’t really like leveling).
I’ve got 525 Alchemy/Engineering on this character and have 525 Jewelcrafting, Tailoring and Enchanting on three other characters.
What do you propose that I do that isn’t leveling?
I play the game plenty and if you consider that those who make gold off of the AH to be linked to RMT/GDKP’s then good for you, must be nice to be so confidently wrong.
GDKP has been around, in one form or another, since Vanilla. I’m not saying that just because something has always been one way, that it should stay that way; I am saying that, since it’s still around, Blizzard obviously doesn’t care. Good luck, but don’t hold your breath.
Yes, the prices were that high week 1 of the expansion. I was selling the resonant crystals from DE’ing m0 epics for upwards of 8-10k during the weeks before the season started.
And the first week of season 1 a tier 3 frozen devotion was 60k.
Banning GDKP did not help SoD. The RMT is still there. The only difference is trash players get gear and the rest of us have to carry them without getting a pot split at the end.