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Diablo 3 Patch 1.08 exploit crashes economy, massive banning enforced

"The in-game economy of Diablo 3 has been destabilised by a recent glitch that reportedly made its way into the most recent patch, allowing players to duplicate their gold income via an Auction House exploit. The discovery was made by various members on the Diablo 3 forums after patch 1.08 went live earlier today, which appears to have allowed users to generate in-game currency with a simple procedure."

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TopDudeMan4025d ago

Apparently they're manually going to have to roll back all the people who did it by accident, too. And make a decision about whether said people meant it or not. I mean, I can understand if someone did the dupe once and didn't mean it, but what I don't get is how someone can explain to blizzard why they did it repeatedly.

I watched a big live streamer get banned for doing it last night. And he was such an idiot about it too, drawing attention to it so everyone in his stream could do it, too.

Letros4025d ago

Sounds about right, this game has been FUBAR for months now

Dark_Overlord4025d ago (Edited 4025d ago )

God damn liars, when a user has a problem its

"Sorry there's nothing we can do blah blah you've lost your money blah blah"

as soon as blizzard sees a method that causes them to lose out, oh look something can be done.

JeepGamer4025d ago

To be fair, and I'm not fan of blizzard.

They don't have time to investigate every claim made by players and judge in a fair fashion. In WoW, it might be a tiny bit different thanks to the subscription fee but they're not going to hire the dozens of 24/7 employees it would take to reasonably do what you're asking for all players.

This is a very specific thing that affects almost all players, even those who didn't do the exploit even by accident. They can correct the problem on a large scale all at once.

Dark_Overlord4025d ago

"They don't have time to investigate every claim made by players and judge in a fair fashion."

Its nothing to do with that :)

Blizzard stated many times that they cannot do anything to sort problems with the RMA (check Blizzards own forum threads for proof), now all of a sudden they can when it benefits them? A lot of people have been conned out of real money by the RMA.

:)

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sovietsoldier4025d ago

i had not used my account since a month it came out and got a email telling me i was cheating and hacking and they were going to ban me. wtf! yeah im really hacking it up at level 11 or whatever im at. blizzard is as bad as ea.

INMATEofARKHAM4025d ago

That's likely an phishing attempt and not even really from Blizzard at all. (They're trying to get you to click in that link and supply your real username/password on their fake server.)

papashango4025d ago

no dude blizzard scam emails look so real now it's scary.

It probably has something to do with WoW accounts being the premier target for these people.

Simon_Brezhnev4025d ago

This happen to me last year. It was from blizzard though. Said i was botting when i didnt log on for months. I was like did yall even check the ip address they apologize and unbanned. They must had a security leak because the password i use i didnt use for nothing else and was complicated.

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Activision Blizzard Faces $23.4M Fine for Patent Infringement

Activision Blizzard ordered to pay $23.4M for patent infringement involving popular games.

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Skuletor5d ago

Another L for Xbox, when are they going to have good news?

MrDead5d ago

I would read the article but the giant pop-ups from the top and bottom of the screen made me close it.

Without reading $23.4 million isn't a deterrent for a company that size.

peppeaccardo5d ago

Boss: Let's fire a few people to recoup on that loss.
Slave: Cortana has decided to get rid of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks.
Boss: Let's get those Firing Letters "Copilot Approved" and send them through the power of the cloud.
Slave: Long Live Phil !!!
ALL in the room: LONG LIVE PHIL !!!!

rlow15d ago

Well another troll company with a patent trying to extort money out of companies. Seems like they’re going to try and sue everyone.

PRIMORDUS4d ago

Not enough drain them for more, fuck Blizzard POS company.

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An Update on This Year’s BlizzCon and Blizzard’s 2024 Live Events

Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."

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PRIMORDUS19d ago

How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.

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Microsoft has ‘let Blizzard be Blizzard’ following its acquisition, studio says

Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.

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Kaii28d ago

Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.

kythlyn26d ago

Microsoft needs to be guiding Blizzard to be what it USED to be, not allowing it to continue to be the greedy bastardization of itself that it has become.

XiNatsuDragnel27d ago (Edited 27d ago )

Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.

Rynxie27d ago

They will never be old blizzard. Most of all the OG's left from developers to those on the top (even some decision making folks left).

Vits27d ago

Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.

ApocalypseShadow27d ago

I was about to say this. How can they be blizzard when they're no longer blizzard from yesteryear?

blacktiger27d ago

Rare was the thing I lost heart

victorMaje27d ago

Exactly. Blizzard hasn’t been Blizzard for a long time.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Knightofelemia27d ago

Blizzard is not the same Blizzard like it use to be.

PassNextquestion27d ago

Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...

Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.

thesoftware73027d ago

Wow, PassNextquestion,

You fully understand what that saying means, unlike some people on here who just have to say negative garbage talk.

When someone says, "Just let *blank* be *blank*, "they are just letting them operate how they operate.

It's pretty much how Sony "let Bungie be Bungie."

This comment section is full of outright haters, but you have to "let N4G be N4G"

GamerRN27d ago

This site leans so heavily in one direction...

BISHOP-BRASIL26d ago

I don't think people commenting are necessarily blaming MS for anything here, this is just collective longing for what Blizzard/Vivendi was before Activision's meddling.

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