Lmao i cant wait til youre on here whining about server population and not finding a group when everyone leaves. Look at trade chat. The majority of groups are GDKP. So when its gone, you got no PUGs left. Hopefully you got a guild.
yes because obviously there are no methods of getting gold outside of GDKPs other then buying it right?
The token was introduced mid-wrath.
GDKP was HUGE in classic and TBC classic, with zero resistance on my realm, and very little on social media. I don’t buy that this sudden rise in anti-gdkp sentiment is token related.
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We’re talking like 100k in a week or two, while doing other raids on other chars. I’m not anti-GDKP but I can do maths.
i played on k1 and k3 for like 4 years with a server pop of less than 3k total spread across every global timezone. you couldnt even find a dung group after primetime let alone a pug raid.
we got along just fine and still cleared (a much harder version of) naxx.
if you think wow servers will just shrivel up and die without gdkp you are very wrong. please do not let the door hit you on your way back to era.
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GM’s sticky uh, Pallys got the glicky uh
you aren’t good though
This is objectively false and shows that you don’t understand the concept of supply and demand even a little bit.
It’s hilarious you can be this incorrect while saying “it’s basic economics” at the end of your post. 
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The lies and cope lol
People part ways with gold but giving shady people with no rep irl money… i dont see many doing.
If it doesn’t differ from the percentage of the general population that buys gold, then it doesn’t matter whatsoever
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No one in my IDKP runs buys gold. Also, Blizzard does not ban gold-buying (see sodapoppin); just GDKP.
Rofl.
That’s adorbs.
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The concept of Gdkp, by itself, is not a terrible practice. All it is is the use of gold instead of typical dkp that can’t be used outside of that raid guild/environment. But I do understand that it feeds a desire to use illicit means to procur funds quicker.
I can’t say how big of an impact gdkp runs has on the economy, but I do believe that the runs aren’t affecting the economy as big as many of you seem to believe.
Regardless of the existence of gdkp runs or not, there will still be a demand for gold. The likelyhood that the gdkp runs have so significantly increased that demand seems miniscule. Now obviously I don’t have any data to back my claims, but having been in a gdkp raiding guild from a different game, I found that it was actually a pretty good system. Granted the items that were available to buy in that game were also tradable, so the item prices were just as fluctuating as the market decided they were.
In my over arching opinion though, it’s great that blizzard is taking a stand, if only experimental, in combating gdkp runs since it is clearly important to the community. But I don’t like the hate of gdkp runs as a general practice.
No, theyre skipping past the pretty paint and getting straight to the point
It is RMT.
The funny thing is, blizz can interact with accounts and see who theyve talked to, or associate with. Report the account.
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So what you’re saying is you don’t actually have an issue with buying power or gear as long as it doesn’t effect the economy? Weird.
Why should I care? It doesn’t impact me. I care if these whales use an in-game medium and attract bots/indo farmers to destroy the in game economy to fuel their addiction. If it’s all off line though, it has zero impact in game. They’re still clearing the dungeons but deciding who gets loot via a method external to the game.
Yes its “there” but its sitting in the mailbox of a gold seller because NOT AS MANY people buy it because no gdkp. Before the flow of gold from botter/seller to the economy was higher because lots bought gold for gdkp. Now botters have less sales thus lowering the influx of botted gold into the economy.
I’m praying they do.
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It sure is enough, my friend. That’s the whole purpose of guilds! In a guild, you do something for the good of the guild, not for yourself. That’s why you come back.
And I do understand some can’t raid in a guild. I’d say most can, so guilds still apply.