If you wanna go that route, I have a bit of time before date-night.
What makes organized crime…organized crime? (And is it inherently evil?)
The gold arriving as a package to the RMT player is easily tracked.
Mixing that gold into a pot with “clean” gold and distributing it to other players is not easily tracked. (Hence laundering.)
A note on it’s original ban.
And some commentary on its effects from Greenfield himself in an interview a couple months ago:
“It’s probably a little bit too soon to say, but I think my knee-jerk initial reaction of playing the game on multiple servers a lot is yeah, I’ve noticed a lot less advertisements and things like that. It’s given us the opportunity to crack down on things a little bit more easily. Not just gold selling and botting but gold buying.”
“GDKP is an excellent way to launder money and an excellent way to obfuscate the movement of illicit gold. Without that sort of shield, it’s making it a lot easier for us to clean up other things and be a little bit more steadfast about other aspects of the economy.”
ht tps://www.dexerto.com/world-of-warcraft/wow-season-of-discovery-devs-on-pvp-encounters-gdkp-runs-and-the-future-of-the-game-2553156/
He called it laundering too, lol.