Unless they completely change how loot works in Classic they can’t remove trading of gear or Gold. They’d need to go with no trade, Personal Loot which comes with it’s own issues and without these changes you can’t ban GDKP’s fully.
They do ban Bots but it’s a war Blizz can never win which is why we have the WOW Token in Retail.
If they run them via things outside of the game like external Discords it’s almost impossible to police though.
The only thing that could help would be eliminating direct trading of Gold or mailing Gold unless to a toon on your own Account. Make the AH the only way to have Gold move from Player to Player.
Well actually no, the thing is the main way your supposed to play is with a constant base of players, with the idea of the same core team eventually getting their BIS. The problem with pugging is there is that the majority of the time, someone who wants to enter a PUG will need certain loot if not all loot.
Playing consistently with random players in your raiding experience will always cause a maximum amounts of competition for loot, which is just as bad slamming your head against the wall.
Once again the current Pugging META, without GDKP’s creates ZERO reason for any BIS raider to join these groups, which is a much needed thing for PUGS. The variability of player skill and involvement, having carries have incentive to join is REALLY GOOD.
The solution is to create harder content which pushes guilds and teams to form. Just like how Nax 40 was, yes ofc their were some GDKP pugs, but for the most part, the player base was forced to enter guilds and progress with guilds.
If the content is too easy, then it increases the player base doing pugs, and then the problems which i have explained start to show more.
yeah but…ugggh i knowww im just not going to go into a gdkp
ugggh i know its my fault im not profiting from gdkps
uggggghhh man i know im just not goona do it
gdkpers are coping so hard with this narrative right now. BRILLIANT.
In 2020 when Naxx 40 was released on classic, A BIG MAJORITY OF raiders that was doing Naxx 40, was not doing GDKP’s. Having a raid that requires progression and a higher difficulty, makes pugging way less feasible to a majority of the population, because risking a raid lockout without clearing or trying to clear a majority of the bosses, makes pugging less viable.
On classic era now, yes GDKP’s are everything because alot of people are full BIS and they just wanna pump, meanwhile they get gold for their efforts.
IF BFD stayed in the pre-nerf state, the same thing would have happened. People would have been forced to create solid teams for progression and loot distribution.
They should be pitied and encouraged to follow the GDKP’s, botters, buyers and seller wherever else the heck they choose to go once they are banned from the game. TBH though, I don’t pity folks who feel they ‘need’ to buy a tank for 5g/runs. For those who are just good at farming and don’t mind dropping 5-honestly-earned-gold, sorry, the problems above still need to go.
Yes it is the GDKPs fault just as much as RMT/bots and this as result will cause the inflation in the AH. How is this ? you may ask, EZ to explain; one feeds the other is symbiotic relationship. if you allow GDKP with the ridiculous prices they ask for items in their raids it makes players go and buy gold aiding the inflation in the AH therefor helping bots which at the same time sell the Gold. there is a solution to this at least a solution for classic era and SoD is a drastic solution that many wow era players will not digest easily, ( retail and WoTLK are doom because of blizzars greed ) The solution is Minimum and maximum price capping low price capping will be so bad for bot/RMT because getting ingame currency would so easy for the regular player base completly removing the need for RMT hence killing the RMT/bot industry and the same time discouraging GDKPs with addition of perma banning it.