I’m sure it’s been touched on several times, but I’ll just reiterate:
The problem is NOT with GDKP. The problem is with rampant and seemingly insurmountable numbers of bots generating millions of gold into the economy per day. Period. Hard stop. If everyone earned 30g per hour doing hard grinding, and couldn’t get it dirt cheap from bots outside the game, that weapon would have gone for a fraction of that price.
By many people says classic Nostalgia was different. Naxx sapphiron dot time changing etcs.
We may need ‘Modern’ rule for ‘Modern’ classic Wow…
Nope, it definitely is not!
I see lots of guilds recruiting for Naxx daily on my server. You may just have to settle for a guild that is still progressing. Darn, can’t get carried by people who have already cleared the content, How sad.
There are guilds on my server still recruiting that are 15/15 Naxx.
The Nostalgia may have changed but the Sapphiron dot, did not change from original Vanilla. It operates the same in classic as it did in Vanilla. Your purposely being deceitful to push your opinion.
It’s literally named retail in the downloaded files from Blizzard? Does that trigger you?
The loot system is fine. Don’t need to change it that drastically. GDKP can be avoided.
you cant control if people want to run gdkp becuase if you want to spend 100g or 1000g thats your problem. BUT blizzard should crack down on the RMT.
Easy way is ban the gold buyers. IF the Gold buyers get banned then there is no market for the gold sellers. Ban the gold sellers as well but if the gold buyers are getting banned it will be a HUGE deterrence to RMT.
Nothing says don’t buy gold more than your account being banned.
People can defend GDKP all they want. I get it. The concept itself is fine, but the symbiotic relationship with gold buying has caused them to exponentially feed each other to the point its being abused to unprecedented levels.
Just last night someone bought an AQ40 trinket for 8k. People said to him, ‘wow that’s a lot for that item’ … his response was, ‘idc, ill just buy more tomorrow’. And then nobody in the raid reports him, because he is feeding them gold by spending so much.
It’s a vicious cycle that only gets worse and worse.
No, play retail if you want personal loot.
Still GDKP isnt wrong, that like saying gold is wrong then ?, gold is a resource in mostly any sandbox, and should be up to us players to do with how we se fit…
That being said, the core of the problem, is gold seller and gold buyers, they are the cancer that needs to be dealt with, not trying to limit aspects of the game that is part of it, sorry, neither gold or gdkp is a issue, if we would bop gold, then people probably use lotus or plague blooms or something else as a token currency…
this can only be fixed by people understanding what buying ultimatly does to their game, but sadly most dont understand basic economics, and most of all blizz actually standing up to their own rules…
I agree with those in this thread saying to go after gold buyers hard. The gold sellers don’t care if their accounts get banned but the buyers definitely do. If blizz made a a big deal about it, think them putting a big message everytime you login that anyone found buying gold will have their account permanently banned, I honestly believe it would cut the RMT market buy +90%.
I know this is bad on some server but this does NOT represent the average population. In most GDKPs, things goes to reasonable prices and things rarely get over 10k gold, let alone 20k or more.
I’ve never bought gold EVER and was able to get 8/9 T3 for less than 10k total over 2 months. The gold was from previous GDKP payouts (about 1k-1.5k per payout) + gold I already had when I started (about 2k)
Sure, a GDKP system tend to promote gold buying but so does any valuable gold sinks, it’s especially true when there’s no more gold sinks.
You think people didn’t buy gold at the beginning of WoW Classic so they can buy their BoEs and epic mount? Of course they didn’t have to but I’m sure some people did. If you’re knowledgeable of the game, you will know how to make gold in WoW without ever buying.
Gold buying is cheating, yes, but my point is that you don’t have to cheat AT ALL to get gear in GDKPs, why? BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE DON’T BUY GOLD.
I’m half-expecting they’ll add tokens to cash in on GDKP.
On China server there’s the token and it’s GDKP all over the places tho.
GDKP is just a loot system like any others. In a world where everyone has less gold will only results in items being less expensive to buy, it’s all relative.
The problem is not GDKP, it’s botting and gold selling/buying.
dam you got jipped… t3 is free in guild runs… i spend mmm zero, actually make gold every week even though i raid naxx.
Nice so there’s no reasons to complain right? everyone should do guild runs.
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As long as they keep the versions separate the only thing i care about getting out of naxx to take to TBC is slayers crest and mark of the champion. T3, the pole arm and the xbow will be easily replaced in TBC.
No it doesn’t.
I don’t mind GDKP but I would not complain at all if personal loot was implemented for TBC. It wouldn’t be a destructive change imo, as it doesn’t alter the gameplay, at least not directly. The only problem I can foresee is that raid groups would no longer feel obligated to bring a variety of classes to avoid wasting class-specific loot drops.