Please Ban GDKPs!

[Tiyoo-area-52]

@Stormwolf-crusader-strike

@Tiyoo-area-52

All I’ve learned from this is that there are Anti-GDKPers who are comparing a loot distribution system, with no inherent good or evil, to organized crime.

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?)

@Tiyoo-area-52

I’m glad you mentioned laundering though. How is digital currency laundered? Do GDKPs magically erase all transaction data prior to the GDKP?

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.

@Kaivax

It’s also undeniable that GDKP contributes to and drives a lot of illicit activity, such as real-money trading (RMT) and botting, as it creates a demand for in-game gold that would not otherwise exist. GDKP can create an “arms race” effect that encourages participating players to purchase gold to be able to compete for the best items.

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.”

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He called it laundering too, lol.

My point remains. How is the gold mixed? Does it magically erase all data prior?

Also, THANK YOU for bringing up that interview. Read a bit further. In the VERY SAME interview, Nora Valletta says that there’s no data to back up any positive changes, which completely contradicts what Aggrend said. He did call it laundering though LOL.