I think BoE’s encourage gold buying more, there are a ton of BoE’s going for more than any item went in the BFD GDKP I have done.
If Blizzard doesn’t do their job correctly in banning bots & gold sellers and buyers the servers will be plagued with them regardless of GDKP.
People who buy gold are going to buy gold with or without GDKP’s, there will always be something they can buy, and they will not want to farm for it.
GDKP is basically making BOPs until BOEs pretty much
so it has a huge effect by basically cheating the system
i can abit agree you point but not fully becuase BOE drops randomly
while any boss drop any BOP you can start do the GDKP bidding on
it really encourages people too much in buying gold
becuase GDKPs is basically cheating a BOP item drop to make gold from it
As a reminder, this Gold problem (Real Money Trader “RMT”, bots and scams) is why Blizzard decided “officially” to enable WoW Token in Classic LK 
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/thoughts-on-wow-token-in-wrath-classic/1598255
This is going to happen to SoD.
There is already a lot of bots, and this is just the beginning.
It would be easy to add a rule for SoD : no GDKP
Or at least, make something VERY useful for guilds, because at the moment there is absolutely no benefit to raid as a guild or not 
Where is the social part of this game ?
GDKP i agree works on paper
but the moment some people has being buying gold from sellers
other people basically need to keep up and it just do a butterfly effect it effects the whole game
and thats why GDKP dont really work for the game as a whole
sure it works for some specific raider grps but for the game as a whole legit just becoming more and more unplayable
new players/player who came late is unable to join raids even with bis pre raid
and so on
GDKP basically do gatekeeping & pay2win in 1
and its not gatekeeping bad players
only players who came late and is not max lvl at same time as rest of the server
that dont mean bad players
and also should not gatekeep bad players anyway becuase how else are they able to learn the game and become not so bad players over time
This. Just don’t play on the GDKP server if you don’t like GDKPs 
Living flame is locked anyway.
I did a GDKP on Lone Wolf so it’s not only Living Flame.
im on lonewolf
and this post is not about how GDKP is already ruined SoD but more put a stopped for it before it just get bad
and i heard living flame also has it bad aswell on GDKP afew times already
also
locked servers is there for a relative short time until more people log off & etc.
its getting unlocked again after a while
so i still say its a problem infact becuase its locked for a while
this problem can easier happen there whenever the server get unlocked
GDKP
sure good for your local small raid grp
but its effect on GDKP run is game wide can legit make the whole game unplayable for some people pretty much
and yes GDKP issue in wow at times really do sound like climate change issue aswell in some way
sure a diseal engine(GDKP) to give power is fine for a small community(raid grp)
but what if everyone needs that ops climate change(too many botters/gold buyers & sellers) happen
Im a 100% With you on this.
Its so nice without gdkp on wild growth right now.
There’s more guilds here than there was on Firemaw PvP which is a monster of a server (jus feels like it, not real data)
The defenders will always say the same stupid line of “it’s not gdkp it’s RMT” when they know damn well one doesn’t work without the other.
They profit of a toxic style of gameplay tha has no place in a social game like this and hurts everyone else.
Ban GDKP on SoD, do it! Doooo it!
The problem is that the demand is there for it.
Need the whales to stop joining GDKP runs, then it will die out.
Another way is for Blizzard to delete accounts buying gold to fund GDKP.
GDKP are there because people have had enough of guild leaders who mismanage raids or prio inner circle.
If you want to do loot council then good for you, GDKP won;t affect you at all AND GDKP don’t parse or do speed runs.
report spam every gdkp message, if enough people will do this - system will mute them and they wouldnt be able to recruit. ez
inaccurate & false
GDKP’s would work perfectly fine without bots, gold buyers and sellers.
Don’t have to raise your pitchforks against regular players because Blizzard is not doing their job of banning the rulebreakers.
I think GDKP’s are amazing!
I have zero interest in getting any gear from them and i prefer to raid with my guild 99/100 times.
But farming gold in a raid every once in a while is the best thing ever.
This is a player made problem and then players turn around and cry to blizz about bots etc.
The only way to avoid GDKP and the most toxic players is to play on 
if you get my meaning. Blizzard could solve this problem in one day by recruiting people to monitor chat and actively ban any mention of DKP and boosting but they won’t if anything they have encouraged it by their inaction.
botting will always be there with or without GDKP
buying/selling gold too
BUT GDKP really make alot of those issues too big of a problem and kinda buffing these issues too much
and hurt the game overall and do a soft kind of gatekeeping too and also rewards bad players by them buying gold and get gear
its the kind of gatekeeping that kills games overall
Banning players from agreeing to sort loot a certain way? Are you trying to ban emergent player interaction or what are you trying to achieve here?.. You cant ban GDKPs. Your best option is just to not join them.
Anyone who joins a GDKP knows fine well that a large % of the gold that’s going to be traded has been bought. Especially when you start getting super rare items with a low drop rate.
GDKP is effectively washing that currency and distributing it back into the economy of the game. People can pretend to be naive & ignorant to this all they want, but at this point after years of classic everyone knows fine well where most of that GDKP gold comes from and it’s not from Imbamage farming iron ore all day long!
U leech bro? No cut.