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Blizzard's Incompetence Strikes Again - Gold Duplication on RMAH
kadepsyson
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in Diablo 3
Well, Blizzard released their patch today to fix things in the game. In doing so they showed their programming skills that lead players to have the ability to duplicate (dupe) their gold. Players could have infinite gold which then can be sold for real money through the RMAH or used to purchase items. Happened across all regions.
The developers are a joke. Incompetently implementing already poor game design.
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The biggest problem is they can not do anything about it, except ban the players that they know abused it. All that gold ( trillions upon trillions ) has been introduced into the economy and the game is completely screwed.
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Yup you are absolutely correct the Developers are a joke. They should know how to fix every bug before before it appears, and squash every exploit before it happens.
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Oh wait they cant do these things because its impossible to fix these things until after they happen. If you knew anything about programming you would know this. It is our jobs as players to tell the developers about bugs and exploits so the developers can fix them. Posting about it here will not prevent more people from using this exploit.
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Fix'd for ya
It worked in Diablo 1 & 2 where people traded in game or from the lobby. Blizzard have dropped the AH on the PS3 version because they admitted it was a trial and error with the PC version and now see it as error.
Drop rates are fine. Itemzation needs a little love. The auction houses are irrelevant to the game. Just don't use them. When the Playstation version comes out we're in for whole new round of people bitching because they want best game gear Nowwwwwwwwwwwww Wah Wah Wah. Which is the real problem and why there is an auction house in the PC version to begin with.
You sound really, really full of yourself.related link
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/8/4311002/blizzard-takes-diablo-3-auction-houses-offline-after-gold-dupe-bug
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Once again fanboy number 1 trys to make it seem that Blizzard had their hand on the pulse and quickly put a stop to this dupe, infact the damage had already been done.
Reminds me a lot of the duping fiasco in gw1, devs also said at the time that they would ban all who exploited, yet to this day some players still have mass stacks of duped ambraces.
I wonder how Blizzard will deal with the players that purchased all the top items / gems etc from the ah with duped gold?, yes they need a ban but ... what happens to the players that sold those items for they now have the duped gold.
This mess does not stop there too, what about people that purchased items that had already been tainted with the duped gold for real money?.
Blizzard should have done a roll-back, that would have taken a couple of hours and this mess would have been sorted.
AH is not in PS3 cus it does not require an internet connection and sony would not allow battle.net to run on top of their platform... that is all. ah was/is fine as it is, too much entitled bitching as usual.
I don't see anything happening. They will probably ban the people that duped gold, but I doubt anything will happen to the gold and $ that have already been exchanged between players.
i'd do rollback on an exploit that massive.
bans go with it of cors.
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Hard to do a rollback when non-exploiters would be harmed. Many of which may have RMAH transactions during that time period.
They already announced no roll back because the amount of people who actually exploited was so minimal.
It doesn't take a lot of people to do irreparable damage to the game economy. Players better hope Blizzard keeps detailed logs of all transactions or hyper-inflation is on its way.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
-- Herman Melville
Obvious they do. They already announced that they have taken out 85% of the duped gold, and continuing to do so. So they are rolling back transaction, including the RMAH ones.
Personally i lucked out. Most of my "assets" are in RMAH US dollars ... and there is no inflation there. I only hold a little gold for normal play. That is why i am very happy they have a RMAH.
BTW, gold has gone through a huge inflation since the start of the game anyway.
And remember to read the TOS, as it states Blizzard can and will ban or lock your account if you use the Auction House as an investment catalyst which to me sounds kind of odd. The TOS also states at anytime Blizzard can take thier currency from you if its loaded into there Battle.net service and they do not even have to tell you why since, hence you agreed to the TOS. Best way around anything, either:
A. Do not use the RMAH or
B. Transfer all cash to Paypal since technically they can't re-withdraw money from Paypal without your consent.
Blizzard has acknowledged the AH was a mistake but is not planning on removing it anytime soon since people have invested so much into it. See what I did there? Now read that first sentence again....It's about time people start realizing companies like Blizzard and Activision have pretty much turned away from communities since World of Warcraft and really only care about how much money your spending with them. It's not wrong in a sense because they are a business. But it can ruin a game for you if you treat it like a job instead of entertainment.
What's really surprising is that there are still some people care enough to play this garbage.
How about you?
That is fine. I only cares about whether the game is fun. It is not like i care about their livelihood, so we are even.
Given the drop rate, and RNG, i have more fun with AH (and RMAH) then without. So i don't want them to take it away. It has nothing to do with investment. It has everything to do with progression.
Getting a good drop i cannot use, and cannot sell is not progression. Getting a good drop, that can be sold, and buy an upgrade is. (Now i would not object to just trading for a good drop i cannot use for one i can, but a AH is much more efficient in doing so).