World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

Sylas said:

yeah go fuck yourself those people were doing the lord's work keeping my fresh virginal server pure, free from bots and scammers and spam. They should be given medals or have statues erected in their honor.

I think I saw 1 fucking bot running around a cave hitting up mining nodes in my entire 6+ months on Maladath. Only reason I even knew about this shit was early on I asked in lfg about a pug or gdkp cus I missed my guild run that week and I got whispers from like 15+ different people warning me not to mention GDKPs and was given the low down. had never really paid attention before but I made it a point after that and yeah there was never ever mentions of GDKPs.

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Tuco said:

What makes you think Sylas hates GDKPs?

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Sylas said:

Fucking lol, Wrong.

First off, there are no servers without GDKPs so wtf are you even talking about? But yes, the pervasiveness of GDKPs on a server directly correlate to the amount of botting/scamming that occurs on a server, which you can compare directly against the volume of gold for sale on RMT sites. The price of gold on servers doesn't always correlate to the amount of botting due to supply/demand factors as well as ban waves, but the sheer volume of available RMT gold does directly correlate to the prevalence of GDKPs on individual servers.

The most recent evidence of this was the fresh start WOTLK servers. Maladath was one of the fresh start servers that was made up of mostly returning classic players who had quit or become jaded by GDKPs back in classic/tbc etc. There was an extremely vocal minority(or perhaps even majority) that despised the concept of GDKPs and would mass report anyone who even mentioned them in any public chat, trade, lfg, general, even say/yell.

This is how we learned that WoW classic used automated ban tools and have very few actually CS people because after a certain threshold these players would get temp bans within hours of mentioning GDKP in public channels and it would take days/week+ before you could appeal to a real person to get unbanned. Some even went the full 2 week ban and never got a reply to their appeals.

But nonetheless on this server if you ever mentioned GDKP you would get mass reported and banned so GDKPs were never advertised. They still happened, of course, communicated in whispers in game to like minded players to join their discord but it was a very small community and was never, ever advertised in game.

The amount of botting was almost nonexistent on Maladath but it did happen, but more importantly the volume of gold on RMT sites for maladath was far less than the volume of other fresh start servers (obviously fresh start servers all had less available gold than older servers).

Anyway some people claimed that one of the "Gate keepers" (anti-GDKP ppl) got somehow invited to one of the GDKP discords so had the names of ppl and started mass reporting them, idk if that's true but what did happen is many of the people who participated in GDKPs got banned, some of them permanent bans because they had been previously 2 week banned due to the false mass reporting just for mentioning GDKPs.

Turns out because there was so little botting activity/little GDKPs and so little volume of gold available, that when people went to buy gold from the RMTs the gold farmers were actually just using hacked accounts to meet the "demand" which was coming entirely from the GDKP community. When people logged in to find their accts had been hacked (many of them gold/boost buyers themselves) and reported it, CS would trace the gold and ban the buyers. Those who's accounts were flagged due to previous bans were permanently banned.

Server basically died after this and they opened up free transfers and everyone left. Then of course Blizzard added WoW Tokens to classic so they stopped giving a shit about it.

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Big Phoenix said:

They better speed up the subsequent seasons.

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Sylas said:

The original question was did GDKPs contribute to botting/gold farming/RMT/etc?

Abso-fucking-lutely it does I don't know how retarded/delusional you need to be to think that it doesn't? it's literally 99% of the reason for RMT in WoW.

To reiterate, I wasn't part of any mass reporting, just stating that it happened and it was the only server i've seen that didn't have public GDKPs and it also wasn't infested with bots/spammers/etc of any kind.

Was mass reporting them against the ToS? Yeah probably, but with faggot blizzard nowadays pretty much speaking your opinion on any topic in general chat is against the ToS so you can be reported for literally anything. You can be reported for stating the sky is blue because some faggot tranny gets triggered by the color blue and they can report you.

However i've ran in plenty of GDKPs in my time, back in classic vanilla and in WOTLK, hell I still run in a weekly GDKP for ICC.

I would (and did) gladly take not having any GDKPs on a server since it meant not having shit tons of bots/spammers/scammers/boosts/etc. The fact that a bunch of GDKP Gold buyers ended up getting banned in the process because the sellers were hacking their accounts and selling them their own gold back was pure lols, Win fucking win.

to be fair idk how many people got banned just from the mass reporting. That's the excuse people gave when they ended up not logging in for 2 weeks. They always claim it was because of "trade chat GDKP". They're always too embarrassed to admit they were buying gold from indonesian gold farmers.


No i didn't do shit. Just pointing out the lack of a RMT market was directly correlated to the lack of GDKP market.

Look, different versions of WoW have different economies, gold influx vs gold sinks etc, but for the most part there's basically no gold sinks that outpace intake from questing. Doesn't matter what version/phase of the game whether its 100g for lvl 40 mount or 5k gold for epic flying, the game's natural gold intake from questing to level to the point where you need that gold puts that in game purchase just within reach. Maybe you have to skip buying spells for a level or 2, maybe you don't get a mount til 41 and a few more quests, but there is absolutely no in game demand/reason for you to accumulate gold other than to buy loot. There aren't any natural in game gold demands which outpace gold generation. After about level 40 when rare BOEs are surpassed by even quest rewards, not to mention dungeon drops, there's pretty much nothing worth buying that justifies needing to have so much gold. GDKPs are the only reason why you would need to amass large quantities of gold.

Sure a handful of players play the game just to amass gold, that's the game for them, playing the AH -1 copper under cutting game, speculation on rares/mats/etc. They play the game for that so it's fine, but they aren't the ones buying gold.

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yerm said:

So, uh, I guess there just wasn't really botting before gdkp, right?

You can't think of any reason to amass gold except gdkp, or any reason to rmt except for it, so you think it MUST be the cause? Am I wrong? Meanwhile, wow is filled with whales (and so are many games) that will pay for their shit one way or another. Also meanwhile, not everyone is an impulsive autist who NEEDS items that drop and will do anything to get it like buy gold if that's the system.

Bots exist wherever there is a 3rd party market for gold which results in a profit. Gdkp is not the exclusive source of desire for gold, even if you personally can't think past it.

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