From a blue post.
It’s also no secret that the gold from many boosting groups is used for illicit activities such as Real-Money Trading (RMT), as much of the gold that players pay to boosters is then sold for real money back to other players.
I truly do not get how one is fine and the other is not… They are essentially the same thing.
- One you pay for levels
- The other you pay for gear
Both you are paying for progression with in game gold, and we all know where a large percentage of in game gold comes from.
Blizz how you treat one, you must treat the other the same.
They are both bad, or both fine.
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GDKP != buying raid boosts. You still participate in a GDKP loot system, so it’s not the same as buying your way in and sitting there to collect loot, as it would be if you purchased a host.
Maybe because using gold for in game stuff makes people do in game content, play the game. Boosting makes people sit afk and not actually enjoy the content…
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Brian himself has said they are not the same.
edit: Whether or not I agree with his stance is a whole other thing.
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Sorry a fresh 70 with pockets full of RMT gold does not do much in a GDKP other than get carried.
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Probably WoW Token will be added in Wrath. And Blizzard hopes that people will buy it.
Basically that’s the only reason that they didn’t ban boosting on retail.
Why does this bother you so much though?
How does it directly effect your experience?
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I mean, the same argument can be made for boosting levels. The big problem with it was supposedly that it was taking people out of the pool for actual dungeon groups at that level. How is that not the same with raids?
Yeah. Their reasoning for why they’re removing boosting implies they’re also obligated to do something about GDKP’s. Will they? Probably not, because they don’t genuinely care about removing RMT’s from the game and know it’s a big part of what keeps players playing the game. They only want to look like they care for WOTLK to bring back players that have left.
The whole thing is rather disingenuous. They should have banned boosting 3 years ago. Alongside botters, and GDKP’s.
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So is getting favor from friends to carry you.
Because gdkp uses rmt money where as boosting is the seller taking in the gold I think.
I have seen his twitter statements, the man is not infallible… he is not an all knowing god. He has a faulty logic going on to think one is bad and the other is OK. You have to do mental gymnastics to separate the two.
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GDKPs will not be banned or removed. Adapt or get over it.
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The majority of people doing gdkps are alts. Their mains are still in guilds.
I raid more now that there are gdkps and have made new friends doing them, this makes the game more social.
Gdkps can only be considered pay to win because RMT is not policed heavilty enough. Target gold buyers and gold sellers, not gdkps. Banning gdkps is just an illogical conclusion.
More people running more raids is NOT bad for the health of the game.
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Yep, I’ve made this point before. I hated boosting and I also hate GDKP’s, but you can’t claim boosting is a laundering service for bots, while leaving GDKP’s untouched.
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RMT problem
Character flaw. Sounds like he wasnt going to stick around with you guys anyway.
GDKPs are more like a guild environment than any other pug system.
You take away RMT and GDKPs still exist, in fact they would be more popular than they are now being that more people can afford to be in them. The system itself isnt pay to win.
Pug groups are formed and successfully completed everyday and its a lot of groups doing them. That isnt unhealthy.
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I’m well aware, I’ve heard his stance on RDF. Like I said with my edit, whether or not I agree with his stance is a whole other thing. GDKP’s are 100% where the biggest gold buying whales are spending. However, I disagree that GDKP’s should be removed, just that they should be more aggressive on removing RMT gold, even from people who never bought it. If you log in missing gold, you should have a notification in-game as to which raid was responsible.
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