Oh, you didn’t?
That was you right? LMFAO
fify,
you’re welcome
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Regulate the AH how?
I already said why they don’t truly moderate it. They care more about the sub than actually punishing gold buyers. That isn’t going to ever change, whether we like it or not.
I bet you’re the same type of American who says “it’s a mental health thing” and then votes for the party that killed the mental health bill that they tried to pass on this issue. What a sheep.
If your elderly mother with dimensia starts taking knives out of the drawer to stab people with, would you, or would you not make the knives more difficult to have access to in order to avoid further violent incidents?
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I understand that you are saying the issue is Blizzard’s incompetence. Are you suggesting that we should close the discussion and accept it as is so that the issue will never improve? Because this is exactly how the service we receive will continue to deterioriate.
I’ll start with an easy one:
Cap the # of listings an account can have on the AH. People don’t need to have hundreds of listings on the AH at the same time.
There are many different restrictions that can be placed based on level, timers/cooldowns, account age, etc.
These restrictions can be applied in away that doesn’t affect the majority of the player pool, and severely cripple the RMTers and Bots, as the AH is where they liquidate the majority of their farmed goods into gold to sell.
If RMT/Bots want to circumvent some of these restrictions by using dozens of accounts then it should be even easier to track.
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That’s not what I said at all. They aren’t choosing to keep gold buyers around because of incompetence. They are choosing to not ban them because they don’t want to potentially lose that sub.
My mistake. So they are intentionally choosing to provide incompetent service to the players?
They are intentionally trying to not shoot themselves in the foot, since this is a business at the end of the day.
At the cost of the players. Are we to sit quietly and accept this?
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No, but I’m telling you the cold hard truth. I’d love for them to ban all gold buyers, but good luck trying to seriously lobby for that.
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I would completely eliminate her access to knives (aka ban a gold buyer). I would not ban the entire population from using knives. (aka GKDP ban)
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I’ll throw in another form of regulation:
Gold Decay - Any gold in excess of X amount will decay at a rate of x% per weekly reset. Specific in-game activities, such as clearing the latest raid, prevents decay for that week.
This should have minimal impact on the active player pool, encourage spending for a livelier economy, discourage gold hoarding, help prevent inflation, and best of all: millions and millions of bot gold will burn to the ground.
Will bots continue to farm gold that they can’t hold onto? If we want to experiment in SoD to reduce RMT/Bots, perhaps this is the kind of experiment we should focus on.
There are much better solutions than a GDKP ban.
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This is honestly the only part of it that I take issue with. Trying to find raids during primetime on Wrath, for example, and most of the options being GDKPs is not pleasant.
I have the gold to do GDKP pugs if I wanted to, but I have no interest in doing them, which limits my options severely for getting weekly runs done.
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You can’t eliminate her access to knives without making it harder for everyone else in the house to get them too.
Sure we can. Put her in a straitjacket (ban the RMTer).
Why is this RMTer suddenly my mother? Why do they have dementia? Is this comparison meant for us to sympathize with RMTers? I have so many questions.
Either way, I’m not going to blame the knife.
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Stop trying to compare selling Instanced Guaranteed-Drop Bind on Pickup Gear with Rare-Drop Bind on Equip Gear.
I can pretty much guarantee you that there are far more Arcanoshredders running around in SoD than there are Gut Rippers.
I’m not sure if I can see the issue here. If there are 5000 people on your server who prefer running these regular raids, then are these 5000 people not continuing to run these raids? How does GDKP affect this?
Or is the issue that these regular raids are so unpopular that you need to force GDKPers to run these raids in order to help fill your ranks?
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Doesn’t this have to do with the drop rate? I can also guarantee that Linen Cloth is more common than Gut Ripper, but that doesn’t mean anything.
My wife calls me the gut ripper 
The issue is a personal one. I don’t like GDKP, and outside of an organized raiding guild a majority of pugs in Wrath are GDKP.
I didn’t say this was something for Blizzard to solve or do anything about, I just dislike that GDKP as a system reduced the number of non-GDKP runs. Also part of why I prefer Retail raiding in general- there’s no dividing line between GDKP and non-GDKP groups, there are just groups.
Just a personal gripe with GDKP. 