I’m just a blue collar mage after the finer things in life. I spam frostbolt and get maybe 1 purple every 2 weeks. Honest man’s work. Simple living as I drink my conjured water.
GDKP isn’t the problem. The problem is gold buying and bots. We are playing in a game where Blizzard does the bare minimum to combat these things. Two week bans? Why not permanently? Massive ban waves of bots? Haven’t seen that in a while. Also, no one is talking about how raw gold farms are how illicit gold is being made. Imagine if Blizzard nuked ZF graveyard to offer less EXP and gold past 5 runs in a day? It would get people out of the dungeons and into the world.
Completely cooked take to try and argue that the people organizing GDKP's are doing some type of service for the community. All they're doing is funneling themselves out people's massive stockpiles of bought gold. They contribute literally nothing to the server at all, they just leech from it. They sit in org all day and pay for their entire in game existence by being little leeches. Who cares that they organize runs for them and their friends who buy gold to purchase big ticket items in? Sources? My guild runs one of the bigger ERA GDKP's and it's a complete shit show.
Anyone who is taking the initiative to start a group, guild, or even inviting someone to quest together is creating player based interactions which is crucial to the success of the MMO. GDKPs is another way to distribute items while also potentially allowing for all members of the group to benefit. It’s just a currency based system instead of an RNG roll system, this currency (gold) can also be transferred between raid teams in case their current one fails. Is gold buying inherently wrong and killing the community slowly?Absolutely, it trivializes and devalues player accomplishment, why bother putting effort into anything when I can just pay for the same result. Blame capitalism not the GDKP organizers.
What guild ? Som 2 ? People are buying gold anyway and with SR being so prevalent in raids now and me myself being a try hard who’s lost loot to complete shitters bc of unlucky rolls I truly think gdkp is one of the best loot systems . I also really like that on era even with the insane inflation I could tank a bwl and get tank cut and raid for an hour to pay for my consumes and rend mc cap for the week . Right now in fresh I have to sell about 4 hours of stock boosts on my warrior to pay for consumes, I’m leveling a mage ( like everyone else . .) to remedy that and eventually sell Mara or Strat boosts . . Regardless people ruin this game anyway, casuals with families who can’t play often buy gold, meanwhile I still have to make another 1k selling stock boosts to afford my lionheart not to mention my epic riding after that for another 1k
I’m just a blue collar mage after the finer things in life. I spam frostbolt and get maybe 1 purple every 2 weeks. Honest man’s work. Simple living as I drink my conjured water.
GDKP isn’t the problem. The problem is gold buying and bots. We are playing in a game where Blizzard does the bare minimum to combat these things. Two week bans? Why not permanently? Massive ban waves of bots? Haven’t seen that in a while.
Also, no one is talking about how raw gold farms are how illicit gold is being made. Imagine if Blizzard nuked ZF graveyard to offer less EXP and gold past 5 runs in a day? It would get people out of the dungeons and into the world.
Completely cooked take to try and argue that the people organizing GDKP's are doing some type of service for the community. All they're doing is funneling themselves out people's massive stockpiles of bought gold. They contribute literally nothing to the server at all, they just leech from it. They sit in org all day and pay for their entire in game existence by being little leeches. Who cares that they organize runs for them and their friends who buy gold to purchase big ticket items in?
Sources? My guild runs one of the bigger ERA GDKP's and it's a complete shit show.
people are buying massive amounts of gold anyways lmao
Anyone who is taking the initiative to start a group, guild, or even inviting someone to quest together is creating player based interactions which is crucial to the success of the MMO.
GDKPs is another way to distribute items while also potentially allowing for all members of the group to benefit. It’s just a currency based system instead of an RNG roll system, this currency (gold) can also be transferred between raid teams in case their current one fails.
Is gold buying inherently wrong and killing the community slowly?Absolutely, it trivializes and devalues player accomplishment, why bother putting effort into anything when I can just pay for the same result.
Blame capitalism not the GDKP organizers.
What guild ? Som 2 ? People are buying gold anyway and with SR being so prevalent in raids now and me myself being a try hard who’s lost loot to complete shitters bc of unlucky rolls I truly think gdkp is one of the best loot systems . I also really like that on era even with the insane inflation I could tank a bwl and get tank cut and raid for an hour to pay for my consumes and rend mc cap for the week . Right now in fresh I have to sell about 4 hours of stock boosts on my warrior to pay for consumes, I’m leveling a mage ( like everyone else . .) to remedy that and eventually sell Mara or Strat boosts . . Regardless people ruin this game anyway, casuals with families who can’t play often buy gold, meanwhile I still have to make another 1k selling stock boosts to afford my lionheart not to mention my epic riding after that for another 1k