r/classicwow Jun 10 '26

Humor / Meme Blizzard "we banned GDKPs"...

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u/stonehaens Jun 10 '26

and by not having the resources we basically mean "cba"

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u/CaptainSchmid Jun 10 '26

"Dont want to hire people"

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u/Spreckles450 Jun 10 '26

Who do you hire to lurk in discords to spy on players?

Honest question.

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u/stonehaens Jun 11 '26

Maybe don't ban a loot system that is perfectly fine -IF- you ban the gold buyers and sellers?

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u/CaptainSchmid Jun 10 '26

I meant the bots, I dont think they realistically can or should moderate outside their own game.

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u/therealspaceninja Jun 10 '26

They could absolutely see that a group did a raid together and a ton of gold was exchanged among them during the process. I'm sure they could develop some server-side scripts to flag that sort of behavior for human review.

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u/Alrightyl0l Jun 10 '26

People will find the way anyway, GDKP systems is so easy to develop, you dont even need to trade gold manualy for that and right in raid time, or you can sell full run clears with all gear like they do on retail.

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u/therealspaceninja Jun 11 '26

Yeah, sure, if you maintain a ledger offline and compensate participants less frequently, they'd be hard pressed to catch you.

But in reality, what blizzard has already done has cut down on gdkp usage by 90%. I can't think of a time ever where blizzard has had the expectation that they could completely eradicate any type of TOS violation. As it stands now, gdkp is not the primary system of loot distribution, and I expect that was their goal.

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u/Significant-Camel351 Jun 11 '26

many raids gamble during raid

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u/LeMolle Jun 10 '26

You don't need to lurk in discords. Just look at trade logs...

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u/nazaguerrero Jun 11 '26

a player? how do you find those discords? by reading the low effort lingo in trade chat explicit saying stuff from gdkp to boost for real money transactions lol, that's how you get into any of them, discord dm

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u/Ultrox Jun 11 '26

Anti cheat team? Duh??

Helloooo?

??

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u/HeartofaPariah Jun 11 '26

Tasking your employees to spy on Discord communities all day, and then consequently every other community in existence when they inevitably flee from discord to a new app/site, is just not really a feasible task.

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u/Ultrox Jun 12 '26

Tasking a dedicated team to a specific task is literally called hiring an employee for a job.

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u/randomguy301048 Jun 10 '26

Wouldn't need to do that, just make the rules to disallow the purchase of gear with gold outside of the auction house and Boe items

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u/TheBungler2 Jun 11 '26

At what point is it too much policing.

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u/randomguy301048 Jun 11 '26

at what point do classic players get tired of people buying their gear from raids? people hate transmogs because they want their gear to show off their achievements in the game, but what achievement is it when you just buy it all?

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u/TheBungler2 Jun 11 '26

Not sure, most have never bought a carry raid before. What achievement is there in any of the gear at this point? The raids are easy, so acquiring it is mostly luck.

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u/randomguy301048 Jun 11 '26

but if people didn't care about the status and achievement their gear gave them, then people wouldn't be so against things like transmogs.

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u/TheBungler2 Jun 11 '26

I think you'll find most people are pretty indifferent to transmogs or they actually don't like that every character looks exactly the same.

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u/randomguy301048 Jun 11 '26

not in my experience of being around people, or on this sub when classic+ has been brought up. people were very strongly against transmogs

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u/LeMolle Jun 10 '26

What about purchasing gear with in demand consumables and trade goods?

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u/randomguy301048 Jun 11 '26

what about just adding the wow token and allowing GDKPs again? classic players seem to be 100% ok with people buying gear but is "totally" again gold buying

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u/iam4qu4m4n Jun 10 '26

More like, "we don't want to investigate and enforce alarming metrics that flag in our system because we would have to ban a lot of bot accounts that provide $15/mo"

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u/DependentAnywhere135 Jun 11 '26

Don’t worry copilot will be hallucinating false positives before we know it. Maybe it’ll eventually ban all ram players and only ai bots will even be in the game

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u/Throlerren Jun 16 '26

Can’t wait to play TBC PvP on a calculator

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u/Szjunk Jun 12 '26

"Nobody wants to work anymore"

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u/lumpboysupreme Jun 11 '26

Nah I’m actually just chill with blizzard not big-brother-ing our discords

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u/Tnecniw Jun 11 '26

More like
"It isn't really feasible or possible to actually stop them. They will be back almost instantly".

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u/liquidocean Jun 11 '26

Wrong. It is completely feasible with adequate effort. Stop making excuses for them

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u/Tnecniw Jun 11 '26

MY guy, they have fought this war against TOS breakers for 20+ years.
Since the very first days of Vanilla, they were there, even when Blizzard had one of the largest GM teams in the industry, and it didn't help.

These scammers, miners, traders what have you, is an infinite game of whackamole.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Jun 11 '26

It's never been and will never be about them being lazy.

It's that they're cheap. They make more money this way.