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.
Yes, to the same extent, as amply evidenced by RMT crashing server economies without the influence of GDKPs. Or games that don’t have anything remotely resembling GDKPs.
Your assertions flatly do line up with observable reality. All you would accomplish by banning GDKPs is drying out content faster. That’s it.
People will still want to buy gold, just as they did before. The only realistic option is to suspend or ban gold buyers upon detection.
So they’ve…increased the price of items, but no one is buying them and they are just going to lose on them, so they didn’t increase the price of items at all, if i buy a bottle of pepsi and resell it at my lemonade stand for $5000, is the price of pepsi now $5000?
No, people buy them because they don’t have a choice. They’re about to go to raid and they’re underprepared for it. But they have a mountain of GDKP gold and they’re about to make another mountain of GDKP gold in that naxx gdkp. So they just pay the inflated fake price cause they don’t have another choice.