Because of reasons you still adamantly refuse to address.
They give pug groups a reason to stay involved throughout the run.
If you don’t get your gear, you can get gold instead.
It gives players who already have everything a reason to continue doing content, which helps incoming players who aren’t fully geared yet.
You have dogmatically attached RMT to GDKP when they would have ample reasons to exist without the other, and aren’t particularly driven by each other. Anything that costs gold in WoW is what drives RMT, from levelling professions to consumables to mounts.
What you are dogmatically refusing to accept is that RMT will continue exisitng and causing the same problems if GDKPs were banned.
Participating in a GDKP is an entirely optional activity.
You must be confused, these are the SoD forums. If you have an issue with Era I suggest you go there. My only input on that front is of course things will stagnate and the value of gold will steadily decline when a server never gets new content and by extension runs out of stuff to spend that gold on
dreamfoil is 8g
arcane crystals 100g
gromsblood 5g
you could farm 1000g worth of mats relatively quickly.
I know most people wish you could just use the gold from boss drops and buy consumes for the next week and raid log.
But its not 15 years ago.
15 years ago… not many people used consumes, potions and flasks on CD to ensure high performance.
the land scape changed and blizzard did next to nothing to accommodate it.
At the end of the day its always going to be supply vs demand that increases prices.
YES a large amount of gold in the economy means things naturally drift upwards. but people who farm materials to sell benefit from this as well.
the only people who suffer are the low effort raid loggers.
The screwed economy would exist without GDKPs. That’s what you refuse to even consider.
The screwed economy exists because of RMT. RMT can, has, and will exist without GDKPs. RMT will always exist. The negative effects of RMT, including those caused by a potential feedback loop involving GDKPs, is solved by actually enforcing existing RMT rules.
Banning GDKPs would do -absolutely nothing- to mitigate economic problems caused by RMT, but would cause problems for players because GDKPs serve a functional purpose. GDKPs can continue to serve that purpose without causing any harm to the economy, because the harm to the economy is created by RMT.
Given that RMT existed in WoW prior to GDKPs taking off, that RMT exists in games with no analogue to GDKPs, that RMT exists in every MMO, what makes you think that banning GDKPs is the solution? It just flat-out does not make any sense.
I wish I was around when this was originally posted, its really a post made with absolutely 0 understanding of how big wow servers are now and the effect “buying out” the auction house would have. There is a reason why people with millions of gold don’t buy out the auction house and that reason is, they can’t and even if they could, they’d lose gold on it.
On big wow servers. You said those words yourself. You have no understanding of era. People do it here for fun, not for profit. They’ll reset the market cause they can. People post things for higher pricers just cause they can. They don’t care if people actually buy them or not. Era is not a big wow server.