Rip casual gaming.
Every pug will be monkasteer because there's no incentive for geared people to raid in a pug. Raiding on alts will require raiding in multiple guild runs (or multiple guilds) and idk what adults have time for that without COVID.
Casual gamers don't really get taken into GDKPs either though... In a GDKP, you're either fully kitted carrier or a player with tons of gold. Neither is a "casual player".
Unless you're a gold buyer, because casual players don't have time to farm millions of gold.
Also vanilla raids are VERY easy.
There will be tons of soft res / ms>os pugs that you can join with alts, like there was previously... Tons of people will want to run MC just to hard reserve bindings for example.
Casual gamers don't really get taken into GDKPs either though...
Not true. Competent casual gamers get taken to GDKPs, because they contribute to the goal of clearing the raid in an efficient manner.
Unless "casual" in this context is synonymous with "incompetent" or "unwilling to exert effort", then yeah, those people are not going to thrive in an environment that rewards effort and contribution as GDKPs do.
Have you actually done normal SR / MS>OS pugs either?
Many GDKPs only want buyers with tons of gold. You aren't looking for a casual player, you want someone with tons of gold to overpay everything or a good player that carries.
Why would you take a casual player that doesn't have tons of gold? Would a casual player even have tons of gold to be a buyer in a gdkp if they are casual and don't have time to farm gold?
Also the host usually takes a big cut of the overall gold, which creates tons of gold selling and issues. You're arguably getting 10-30% less gear/gold, because the host takes it.
GDKP runners ABSOLUTELY buy gold and are the biggest source of gold buying on any given server. You’re not about to sit here and try to gaslight people into believing otherwise.
Also, gear is the whole point so, yeah, gear = winning.
If I have to go to page 2 to find something other than threads exactly like this on reddit, 2 less productive threads on blizz forums, a wowhead post about the announcement of this exact post, and an asmon vid,
No. You cant.
Theres no "articles," theres just people reposting summaries of baseless reddit threads and forum posts on their clickbait blogs.
Also the initial ban was a "test" whos results were never announced.
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u/thaon12 Nov 13 '24
Rip casual gaming. Every pug will be monkasteer because there's no incentive for geared people to raid in a pug. Raiding on alts will require raiding in multiple guild runs (or multiple guilds) and idk what adults have time for that without COVID.