I´m gonna keep this short, I believe Blizzard is hitting the completely wrong target with this change. Deleting gold drops from classic and tbc raids simply does not effect gdkp players and gold buyers, they have enough money anyway. it only hits regular raiding guild players like me who like to get some money and transmog once a week by farming molten core straight up to sunwell. I like to farm and collect mounts, all the jewelcafting, engineering, and reputation mounts alone cost roundabout 500k in ingame gold (no ah included here). to get to that, it was a lot of fun seeing old raids, hoping on a legendary or mount drop and just make some money with it. This just means a huge part of my weekly gametime got deleted over night, no blue post, no dev commment, nothing. Im sorry Blizzard but that patch completely missed its target.
blizz is known for bad decisions on the regular. this wont be their last bad decision, especially when it comes to legit players earning gold legitmately.
They hit exactly the right target from their POV
Blizzard has always profited from people botting, to the detriment of the normal players.
They ban a few thousand every few months to make it seem like they are "fighting the bots” - they never intend to totally fix it.
Its like the pharma industry not trying to heal people but to treat them for life. Healthy people dont make the numbers go up. Same with bots.
Of course they need to do a little bit of “good” because otherwise people are just gonna quit, but they wont go over the line of eradicating botting, as it yields less than having some of it.