they did in sod, so why wouldn’t it also apply to here?
Here’s the full quote of when the decision was made in SoD. Blizzard themselves acknowledged it was a complicated issue, partly because GDKP contributes to (but is not primarily causative of) RMT, partly due to conceptions of “traditional guild and social structures”, and indeed because GDKP has some benefits.
It’s really disingenuous for GDKP detractors to strawman the issue like they do in this thread, and accuse every advocate as a gold seller or buyer.
The question is whether the decision has had a sufficient impact on illicit activity to justify the negative side effects it has had on genuine players.
Assume it’s a 10% reduction in RMT, then it’s a win. But at what cost?
The whole community gets destroyed, and discord servers are disbanded.
There is no fair PUG loot system left. The reason we see GDKP everywhere is that it’s so good to play.
Blizz should implement a personal loot system.
The guild and social structure argument is stupid. It’s only for mains. The alts need more flexible raiding options, which GDKP provided. People who can’t commit to guilds also need a solution. The 2019 run saw many gkick and disband due to corrupted loot systems.
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This is exactly how you know blizzard has no idea what they are saying.
Majority of people who gdkp main raid in a guild already and they make alts to gdkp with.
Lmfao.
They should of stuck with rmt excuse, it’s at least believable.
Blizzard has 0 clue what they are talking about, color me shocked.
The whole GDKP community is gold buying and selling cheaters and should be destroyed.
Should play another game if they want to raid.
ye, true. It’s like they only have 1 char and build policies around that assumption.
GDKP provides a flexible raid schedule. Runs are smooth and organised. A for-profit company is shooing the customers away is unthinkable.
I don’t see how removing option is good for the customers; unless it costs money to serve.
For cheaters who ruin server economies.
See the above.
I won’t play any version of WoW that supports GDKP. If there’s nothing going on in retail, they lose my sub for a while if there isn’t a good version of classic to play.
You aren’t being “shooed away.”
You’re being told that they don’t want all the RMT/GDKP(same thing) on fresh.
If blizzard didn’t want RMT they would actually do something about bots.
But they won’t and you’ll have just as much RMT and botting on anniversary realms regardless of GDKP. Since SoD proved banning GDKP doesn’t change RMT.
Imagine thinking the people who have no issues buying gold all of a sudden stopped because gdkps are banned.
Id argue MORE people buy gold since the people who relied on them as their gold farm no longer have access to them.
Source?
Trust me bro
You really just be setting yourself up.
Do you know how easy it’s going to be for him to do the same thing to you with 99% of the stuff you say?
Those defending GDKPs are defending pay to win. It is that simple. Boosting + GDKP = Pay to Win Classic.
That’s not how pay 2 win works.
Your items have no advantages over someone else with the same items.
You get no player power over someone else, if you buy Mage blade, it’s the same as someone else’s who got it for free.
Thousands of people will get the item you paid for for free lmao.
I have played on Era for years and GDKP is caustic and probably the worst loot system I’ve seen in 20 years of playing WoW.
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It’s hands down the best pug system especially when the raids get harder later.
Imagine taking people like you and Zaalg and Dorfpriest into heroic cata raids lmfao.
Would be tragic.
GDKP is just retail achievement boosting culture. Play the game.
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It’s really not.
You just have no clue what you’re talking about.
The gdkp discords are literally a community.
If you don’t perform you get kicked, there is no people dying in the corner every fight, they will be kicked, you are there to perform on these harder raids.
You guys aren’t invited to them for a reason, I’m not talking about your trash trade chat gdkps that has to full clear only normal.
You are out of your depth, infact all 3 of you are because you’re all low tier players, you would show up flex your gold, die every boss and be removed from the raid 3 bosses in.
Paying gold for items people got in 2006 playing at 30 fps without weakauras is truly one of the things of all time.
I don’t care about your tea parties, man. Also bold of you to assume I have gold.
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I usually like to be more diplomatic but since you insist on being so obstinate: this statement is demonstrably false and inconsistent with Blizzard’s own GDKP policy.