Every 3 days i put in my spec and role and get invited to a full raid within minutes, why the forum clowns like “GDKP OR NO PLAY” i literally never seen it happen to anyone infact the GDKP gets drown out by regular pugs and i dont even have time to read their paragraph of rules and minimum bids BS
So funny you guys are with your world is ending posts
The only thing wrong with SoD is there’s not more SoD
The forums are always full of doomers.
I’ve watched my buddy do a few GDKPs now. In discord nobody is shy about talking about swiping. Though they wont say it in game for obvious reasons. They even talk about buying accounts, apparently you can buy fully geared characters for like $200 right now.
It’s a cesspool of RMT.
GDKP’s are a vehicle (designed by cheaters) to funnel RMT gold into the game economy.
Anyone participating in a GDKP is a cheater. Even if you’ve never bought RMT gold…you are receiving it. It’s the same concept as receiving stolen goods IRL.
Anyone defending GDKP or Promoting GDKP is probably a gold buyer or seller on these forums and their accounts should be closely looked at…and banned. There is no good argument for GDKP other than, “I want to cheat at a 20yr old game because I suck.” Which is the honest truth.
Consider forming a DKP with price limits and loot limits. Say 10-20g maximum per item with a roll-off if it goes max bid. And a +1 loot system along with it. There should be a way to convert in-game gold to raid gear for a casual player, but I get peoples’ frustration with RMT’ers overbidding hugely.
Gdkps prevalence is growing by the day. Soon it will be majority GDKP. By phase 3, almost exclusively GDKP
This is inevitable, we have nothing to spend our gold on otherwise.
This is why the RMT connection is so strong.
Particularly as the game ages.
Oh great another GDKP thread with the same 6 people making the same tired argument (myself included)
It has nothing to do with RMT. If you stalled everyone out at lvl25 for 6-months and ensured 100% that zero bots or RMT could enter the server whatsoever, everyone would have thousands of gold from just passively doing stuff.
There’s nothing to spend it on, so it never goes away, and we’d be hoarding so much that the economy would be inflated to an extreme degree.
Yeah, and then they wonder why Blizzard has abandoned the forums and only interacts with players on Twitter of all places these days.
If you think massive RMT prevalence has nothing to do with the primary gold sink in the game, you’re confused on an entirely different level
Please tell the class, what is this “gold sink” you’re talking about?
Gdkps, particularly as the game ages. What was missed here, brother?
That’s not a sink, the gold circulates
Your argument makes no sense. You say GDKP help’s fight inflation but it doesn’t. The gold isn’t SPENT. It’s transferred from people that “probably” buy gold and distributed out evenly amongst people who “probably” don’t buy gold. It’s just laundering.
Nobody in their right mind would go into a GDKP without being a gold buyer. The people who run GDKP’s usually have like 12-15 characters they run on, and they take “house cuts” so they can pile up their gold and “probably” sell it for real money.
I would say in my personal opinion 90% of GDKP are illicit. Maybe there’s 10% of GDKP where friends get together and generally like the option to bid on items with gold between themselves.
It’s almost always “hosts” looking for “people” with high “budgets”. aka gold buyers.
Bzzzt!!
Aww, I’m so sorry, that answer is incorrect.
The money piled into a GDKP from players is redistributed to other players at the end of every run. That means every coin used in the GDKP bidding remains active in the economy and does not disappear.
People just like to cry that the sky is falling. GDKPs aren’t very popular, I f anything they are becoming less so by the day. I easily get in pugs with my alts and if anything, they are getting more casual. Most don’t even change the loot system, you just roll like a normal dungeon.
This is why people mock the anti-GDKP crowd. Y’all always sound like economists trying to argue with a straight face that how people buy goods and services isn’t relevant because some named equation doesn’t account for it. Just so silly…
A person with 100g goes to a GDKP where items regularly bid up to 400-500g. Items drop, they toss out their 100g bid, get outbid, and that’s that. Let’s say this is an MC, so we’re talking three items roughly per boss, and let’s assume zero trash drops happened, so that’s 30 items that all rolled off at 450g average for a final pot of 13,500g. No one gets a special cut as its just MC after all, so it just gets split 40-ways evenly.
Our friend entered with 100g and left with 437.5g from just the pot alone.
The very next week, he now has enough gold to probably win an item, maybe two, and still break even, or even still make money. If he’s really just in it for the money he hopes nothing he can legitimately bid on ever drops, thus no one questions why he bows out quickly, and he just soaks up money week after week in preparation for a better GDKP raid like BWL or AQ40.
You do not need much money at all to get started into GDKP unless you’re woefully undergeared and trying to jump into a much higher raid and require carrying. It makes sense to force a buyer to have an entry fee for Naxx when they’re in questing greens/blues.
Y’all silly as can be.
So what you’re saying is your friend opted in to join a raid where he knows he isn’t going to win any items because he has to bid against gold buyers who don’t have a budget and can outbid any legitimate player?
Nice, your friend is a moron.