Unfortunately things like forced personal loot is another proof how Blizzard promotes the anti-social attitudes in the playerbase at the expense of sense of community. Personal loot is to great benefit of all the guild hoppers, raiders who only show up for farm nights and then for progress "oops something came up, won't be there, soz", players who get "bored of the game" 3 weeks into the new raid tier when progress slows down and guilds reach to "wall" bosses, etc. And I've seen more of those than all the "ninja looters" and "corrupted loot councils" combined in over 10 years of playing wow.
Blizzard ain't gonna do anything about this, as it is physically impossible to do. The chances of Method not only paying their debt but then repeating this whole ordeal again next tier is essentially impossible.(if only because if I was Limit I'd make some EU toons on their server and a month before the next race focus on driving up the prices, which Method can only beat if they go even more insane)This essentially affects ONE guild, and any changes to this would damage everyone. Just as they refused to change trading to right Armor type giving Residuum, so they will not tighten trade rules as it will just burn normal people. Not to mention they ate up a lot of gold over this between transfers and auction house tax. Not to mention their debt is not all they spent, they obviously had to have used up most of their own founds just to do this.At best Blizzard will tighten some transfer rules in relation to immediate transfering back with a bag full of goodies, considering that is a purely abuse case.(The rare case of someone transfering, regretting it and wanting to keep the loot or even rare drops he got there can wait a week before allowed transfering back)
To anyone wondering why they are 100 million in debt just remember that this raid drops a mount. A mount that will be super desirable to a lot of the population. Would not be surprised to see the mount boost going for 10-20 million. With their army of alts I’m sure within a few months they will have the ability to boost 5-6 people a week and that debt will swiftly disappear. Especially since this expac has another 1.5 years left.
When you play the game of world first, you either win or you lose. There's no middle ground!
Simple solution, keep the personal loot system and make it so bop gear can never be traded. Then there would be no need for guilds to do split runs and other ridiculous things like this. So it would take a little longer to get bis gear, but raids/dungeons could just be tuned accordingly.
No matter what Blizzard does, the top guilds will spend every waking minute of every day doing whatever activities provide them the biggest advantage for the race. That's what you're signing up for if you want to be first in the world.
Emptying AHs, realm transfers, leveling multiple Professions and then unlearning them, burning tons of coins...just wow. I can't even begin to think about the wasted time and gold going through that amount of garbage just for a WFist. Not worth it by a long shot to me. That doesn't make their achievement impressive. It makes it sad. I mean, how much of their kill was based on good RNG and not a 5 ilvl diff item, really?