Blizzard Mistake Obliterates Diablo 3 Economy

[Devours]

If you thought Diablo 3's in game economy was having trouble before.... Just wait until you hear this...

On Tuesday, Blizzard rolled out patch 1.08 which, among other things, increased the amount of gold you could put up on the Auction house to 10 million. While that in itself reduced the ever dropping value of gold, it also contained a bug that if players were to list 10 million and remove it they actual received double the amount back. Once this got out players went crazy duplicating trillions of gold, buying out high priced item and drastically driving up prices in general.

Blizzard in an attempt to contain the situation has disabled the Auction House so that all current auctions can expire and they can begin to sort this out. The problem with that is, anyone who listed an item with low bid to attract bidders is going to lose that item for MUCH lower that they should since no one can place any bids currently.

To recap, blizzard has annihilated the D3 economy and Hell is breaking loose (couldn't resist the pun) on the Diablo 3 Forums. See you guys in Path of Exile.

[Pringles]

People still play that shitty game?

[Ahldagor]

lol blizz is sinking their own ship

[Bazia]

People still play that shitty game?

[Kagatob]

People still play that shitty game?

[Black Jesus]

People ever play that shitty game?

[Sirken]

why dont they just roll back the server, apologize, and give an xp bonus weekend?

[OforOppression]

The uh... diablo 3 team... isnt... smart.

[Sirken]

ah. alrighty then

[Swish]

That's hilarious... never played D3, too many negative reviews before I thought about it.

Graves are being dug for MMOs that haven't even been released yet, the whole genre is going to sink thanks to online currencies and cash shops. If only there was a solution...

[TWDL_Prexus]

why dont they just roll back the server, apologize, and give an xp bonus weekend?

Their official response

12:00 a.m. PDT: At this time (and after careful consideration), we've decided to not move forward with rolling back the servers. We feel that this is the best course of action given the nature of the dupe, how relatively few players used it, and the fact that its effects were fairly limited within the region.

We've been able to successfully identify players who duplicated gold by using this specific bug, and are focusing on these accounts to make corrections. While this is a time-consuming and very detailed process, we feel it's the most appropriate choice given the circumstances.

We know that some of you may disagree, but we feel that performing a full roll back would impact the community in an even greater way, as it would require significant downtime as well as revert the progress legitimate players have made since patch 1.0.8 was released this morning.


The statement is a joke, but the bold part was especially hilarious. There were streamers duping trillions of gold, buying every single high end item off the AH then destroying them. Banning accounts, and removing whatever extra gold is around won't fix anything.

Still the game is real bad, in so many ways.

[SamwiseRed]

so glad i never bought this piece of shit

[Kika Maslyaka]

so glad i never bought this piece of shit

+1

[Kimm Barely]

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[Autotune]

so glad i never bought this piece of shit

You're dumb, you could have made hundreds of dollars wasting time on a newish game, instead of wasting time on p99 doing the same shit that you could do for the past 2 years.

[SamwiseRed]

i dont play p99, only forumquest, EVE, and dark souls dawg.

[Autotune]

i dont play p99, only forumquest, EVE, and dark souls dawg.

Bet you didn't make any money wasting time on any of those. I got paid more than $500 to play d3 for a few months.

Dark Souls is good, but not getting paid $500 to play good.

[OforOppression]

i have FUN playing my video games.

dont need to make 5 cents an hour playing them.

[Autotune]

i have FUN playing my video games.

dont need to make 5 cents an hour playing them.

I had fun playing D3 for the first few months and I made 5cents an hour.

[Kagatob]

That game was terrible, I was done in 6 days and sold the DVDs to someone for 50 bucks. D2D inferior.

[Knuckle]

Bet you didn't make any money wasting time on any of those. I got paid more than $500 to play d3 for a few months.

Dark Souls is good, but not getting paid $500 to play good.

trying to validate playing a shit game because you made .33 cents/hr wasting your life auctioning pixels is hardly a good reason to play a game.

[Adachi]

See you guys in Path of Exile.

Lol. The game where every kid is going to quit as soon as Kripp puts the game down for good.

[Kagatob]

Lol. The game where every kid is going to quit as soon as Kripp puts the game down for good.

A Mexican street gang?

[Clark]

People still play that shitty game?

why dont they just roll back the server, apologize, and give an xp bonus weekend?

The uh... diablo 3 team... isnt... smart.


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[Clark]

trying to validate playing a shit game because you made .33 cents/hr wasting your life auctioning pixels is hardly a good reason to play a game.