Bots create the gold. The people buy the gold. The people use the gold in GDKPS because there’s almost no where to spend it at the start of the chain. Then non gold buyers get the bought gold from the GDKP. The non gold buyers use their gold to buy consumes to point where the price increases because all the cheap stuff has been bought out. Unsuspecting people are forced to pay higher prices at the last minute. In time the prices get out of control. It’s far easier to run a GDKP and get a several thousand gold payout then go out and farm the peacebloom. More people start running GDKPs for host cuts. More people join them. More people find it easier to RMT and buy their item of choice on the first time it drops. Soon enough, GDKP is the main way people play the game because it benefits casuals looking to easily pay for expensive consumes and RMTers that want to get their item in one shot.
You’re saying that RMT didn’t cause problems before GDKPs. You’re saying that RMT isn’t a problem in games that don’t have anything like GDKPs. This makes you an outright liar.
mmo economies are not real economies, the longer your flavour of mmo exists, the more completely borked its economy becomes no matter what happens. Every single mmo economy is in ruins compared to its early days because gold comes in and never goes out, regardless if gdkp exists or not
Acknowledging this means those who refuse to see past their own nose can’t have an easy scapegoat to point at while ignoring reality or the actual problems.
How are GDKPs toxic to economies? They give you something if you didn’t win gear, give geared players a reason to to continue doing content which benefits incoming players, and can assist greatly in alleviating burnout.
I would like to know what “rmt laundering” even means in this context, its like a word used out of place to somehow make gdkp sound more i guess criminal?
You really don’t, no. BLizzard could or at least should be able to track gold buyers already. There is no purpose to “laundering” gold because gold does not work the way real world currency does. If Blizzard has detected someone buying gold, that’s it, the end. It’s not a case of, “But actually I got it from-” if you suddenly get a massive influx of gold from a player you’ve had otherwise no interaction with.
In real money laundering the money is at some point in the process, returned to the criminal, he buys a house with the proceeds of crime and sells the house and then the money he has is from the proceeds of selling his house…
So, rmts are buying a gressil and uhh selling the gressil? ummm are u sure this isn’t just some random guy buying wow items with his pocket change and laundering is just a cool word that u heard someone else use?