Can someone explain this to me? So many people on this forum were saying GDKPs are the main reason for inflation of the Auction House and services and that GDKP Gold is the main reason for botting.
Yet here we are with no GDKPs and it seems the majority is still buying gold.
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No GDKP allowed doesn’t mean that players won’t buy illegal gold for whatever things they want to finance it with through the AH or other ideas.
It only stops one of the obvious transactional methods of laundering gold away.
One head of the beast is dead the rest of them still live, for example boosting services (the earlier on in a release it is the more obvious it is that gold buying have taken place when people buy boosts).
I dont know about the majority there are some people buying gold to be able to buy some gear such as lionheart for example or for buying boosts. Both boosts and buying the odd piece of gear have less impact than having every piece of gear in the game available if you pay enough, and also the prices are not even close to inflated yet, arcane crystals going for 22g without DM being out is low for example.
GDKPs were never the problem, people will always buy gold regardless. If not for raid gear, now it’s BoEs, boosts, consumes… you name it.
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People seem to be buying illegal gold and paying mages for dungeon boosts, the pvp server chat is just constant spam which is really annoying and cant beleive it wasnt banned in the same way gdkp is
Because gdkp cryers instead of accepting reality, game and farming gold like all normal people went to buy gold.
Worst thing is that server is so overpopulated with players and bots that you can hardly grind and farm anything…there is serious lackage (lol is that a word) of NPC’s. I’m mostly leveling through instances and that way cannot earn enough gold i need. Maybe leveling a mage is a only solution for this abomination called Anniversary.
Instances are really good for gold 
Also a lot of prices are speculative. People list items at absurd prices and expect them to sell. Why pay 300g for eye of shadow when if you got the leaf already you have a team to farm the demons… Even more so for some trash epic BoE.
It is because of botting, GDKP etc is a red herring. Blizzard ban the bare minimum of bots.
If you kill an NPC in game and they drop 1 silver and a grey item worth 9 silver which you then vendor you have introduced 10 silver to the game economy.
This money is only taken out of circulation via gold sinks (mount/respect/buy from vendor/repairs/talents) or from inactivity/blizzard intervention (unsub/not playing/character deleted/banned).
The bots generate gold into the economy and people buy this gold. If a bot owner generated 5 million gold over a six month period and the average price of 1000 gold in this period is say, ÂŁ15 then the bot owner makes around 75k (before expenses), this is a lot of money especially if you are in a place like Russia or Vietnam, Iran etc.
If to generate 5 million gold requires say 50 bots then over the same six months period this gives blizzard 3k in subscription fees so they are also making money from this.
As long as bots remain this issue will remain in the game. GDKP does not generate gold it redistributes it. It does generate demand but the demand has not really changed at all with the ban.
If you think this sounds far fetched, look at this video from a creator whom has recently encountered the dark side of botting. People like me have been aware of this for a long time (see my post history) but now people are starting to realizd : https://youtu.be/XnauN2pkDBQ?si=8hqB1_wyaGFKaYHJ
It is up to blizzard to fix this
Banning GDKP is the first step. The second step is actually banning bots. But Blizzard doesn’t care.
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Literally no one said this, but cope harder.
The conversation can be continued in this thread - thank you!