Question: Do streamers like/benefit from an activity in game?
If the answer is “yes” then that’s why it’s in game. The Classic devs are bad at what they do and take no pride in their work. They only focus on what streamers want because that’s their marketing department. It allows them to do as little as possible while streamers provide a false sense of health in the game, keeping the Classic grift going. These devs NEED to simp to streamers because they lack the ability to improve the game in meaningful ways. They are the room temp IQs of their industry and this is why they work for Blizz, a company essentially wearing the corpses of previous IPs created by people with actual talent. Corporate Blizz chases off any devs that actually give af about the product and attracts yes men that put all their efforts into marketing over content.
Every single one of their choices in game has to deal with supporting streamers and giving streamers what they want. Streamers want GDKPs. Streamers want to buy gold. Streamers want pug stomping premades that make them look good. People need to understand that these devs are bad at what they do and are not listening to them.
I haven’t seen the bodies spelling out gold selling sites since OG WotLK. I also never heard of GDKP until Classic launch in 2019. I’m sure the explosion of botting and gold selling we’ve seen since then is just a coincidence. I literally get gold selling advertisements in the mail weekly in both SoD and WotLK. I keep reporting them but the mail keeps coming. SoD proved once and for all GDKP is the main driver of RMT in Classic. It needs to be banned.
A gaming company that allows players to play as they want? Crazy talk!
Blizzard doesn’t aggressively ban gold buying because that’s what players want. And GDKPs or AH gear is their preferred method to use that gold, and half the reason they bought it.
You’re not going to change Blizzard’s position when changing their position would hurt their legitimate sub numbers.
They’re allowing players to have what they want. The people not speaking up in the forums about gold buying, are the majority of players who don’t care about, or actively are participating, in the gold buying.
The same players that buy gold for GDKBs to get their best in slot also buy gold to get the auction house bis items, true. I don’t think you can really make a defense for GDKPs just because bis items go for a lot. There are way more items to buy in BFD. If blizzard takes a stance against GDKPs it will reduce RMT significantly.
I can only speak for my server specifically which is Crusader Strike but we have guilds like polar which are running 20 GDKPs a week by themselves. I saw about 50 different ones advertised just today. It’s a huge issue.
Yeah but they’re not going to do anything about the auction house. I don’t understand your argument. They can take a stance against GDKPs and hurt RMT. Of course they’re not going to be able to just wipe it out. People will always pay for convenience if they can. But there are literally hundreds of GDKPs going on on my server per week. That’s thousands of players somehow showing up with hundreds of gold to spend. I wonder how they got that gold?
