Any Vanilla ERA player can tell you right now that we have seen a massive increase in GDKP / boost spam in our chat channels in the last few weeks. After hours of investigations and research, me and my team have been able to pinpoint the exact cause for this problem. Let me elaborate:
After running Ulduar GDKPs for months and months straight, wrath babies have come to realize that they made a huge mistake thinking that wrath was somehow a good game. They are now having regrets and are coming back to vanilla in massive numbers. Sounds good, right? well… no.
As we see more and more wrath babies invade our precious vanilla servers, they are bringing with them the very things that made them leave their containment zone in the first place, mainly GDKPs.
If you are one of the thousands leaving wrath and joining vanilla, please leave the very things you are escaping from behind you back in the containment zone and do not bring them with you.
If you wish to keep buying gold and skipping all of the content with real money/boosts, you can simply play retail. Their entire game is setup for this and it will fit a wrath baby very nicely. You don`t even have to level up, you can just buy a level boost from Blizzard together with the gold and instead of paying the GDKP raid leader, you just pay the boosters.
The reason GDKPs hit era is because they came from SoM, not Wrath.
There has been a lot of threads about them, and the person who runs the era GDKP is a chill guy. It’s just a lot of the people in that community are room temp IQers who couldn’t finish BWL in a stable guild because they’re bad/toxic & ultimately rejects that nobody wanted to play with, so they found a home in a GDKP, which is pretty much how those communities develop; it’s the only place people like that can be tolerated because they’re used for either inflating the pot or helping carry oilers who inflate the pot.
He is competent at what he does, but he is also a part of that community you describe. No chill guy hangs with those people for more than a raid and stays chill, let me tell you.
As Upright mentions, strong opposition is what must be done.
They actually have a guild - NO more daggers - I would suggest KoS at any opportunity.
There’s absolutely no doubt the community is toxic, and they’re mostly rejects nobody would accept/put up with (not all but most), you probably noticed as well from that clown who made the thread defending them - I recognise most of them from SoM.
Although, at least from my experience on SoM he seemed like an overall chill guy, but he does what he needs to keep those clowns in his runs flooding gold in, including partaking in their nonsense sometimes, but when I’ve spoken to him it seems he puts that front on to keep the idiots entertained and his runs alive.
I don’t agree with GDKP but I understand if it’s technically not against ToS and he profits from it why he continues doing it.
Neither, because anyone playing on their own realm knows well that there’s no elitism in the Era guilds (with rare exceptions obviously), unless you are a player expecting to get into Naxx with green gear from quests. This is not even elitism but common sense.
“We’ve made some changes to the terms of service. It is now a ban-able offence to advertise or participate in so called ‘GDKP’ runs. We’re making this change to reflect our continued efforts to reduce and remove RMT from the game.”
Pretty much this. You don’t need degree in psychology to understands those links within those quoted sentences. Unless you wanna see what you wanna see no matter what.
I know you cant even name your character, so you probably wont understand, but an addon is no solution. If i cant see their boost spam, new players still will.
These people are not supposed to advertise in lfg or world, so they should all be reported. Frankly Blizzard should completely shut down boosting anyway.