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Posted on Tuesday, June 12 @ 10:49:00 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

After weeks of waiting, Diablo III's Real Money Auction House is ready to go live, but that isn't good news for everyone. Throughout the week there have been reports of item and gold duping that have had a detrimental impact on the game's economy. A few of us have wondered how Blizzard would handle the situation, whether it be through doing a server rollback or the legendary banhammer, and a new announcement shows that the developer isn't kidding around.

Blizzard Community Manager Zarhym has posted on the official forum confirming that thousands of players have been banned from Diablo III for cheating and/or hacking. His statement, which was made this morning, says the following:

We recently issued a round of account suspensions and bans to several thousand Diablo® III players who were in violation of the Battle.net® Terms of Use for cheating and/or using botting or hacking programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play that’s essential to everyone’s enjoyment of the game, botting, hacking, and other such exploitive behavior can contribute to stability and performance issues with the Battle.net service. As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and fun online-gaming experience for legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we'll be continuing to keep watch on Battle.net and take action as needed.

The RMAH is set to go live today so cheats related to the economy have been of utmost priority for Blizzard. The gold and item dupe methods were posted around the web just days ago and have tens of thousands of views, and as a result the economy has been flooded creating massive inflation. The worst part is that the cheats have been useable since the game's launch which was a full month ago. Apparently, cheaters have been waiting until the eve of the RMAH's release to start milking the cheats so they can make real-world currency.

Blizzard has been battling to balance Diablo III since its launch, and most recently nerfed popular farming spots and announced a major balance patch. While we'll have to wait a few more weeks for the game to be balanced—especially for melee characters—, commodity auctions are now available and the RMAH is ready to go live.
Related Games:   Diablo III
Tags:   Diablo 3, Blizzard


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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 11:29 am
    Should've had an offline single-player mode...
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  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 11:47 am
    Well, Diablo I and II had offline modes and were so easy to hack in that nearly everyone did it. I don't think that'd be the right remedy in this situation.
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 11:56 am
    I know, the problem is people exploiting the bug. I just like saying that.
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  • Lethean
    Lethean
    Joined: Jan 2001
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
    But no server issues plaguing the game and you could at least, you know, play a single player game.
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  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 11:55 am
    Offline only would do absolutely nothing to fix the hacks and exploits in online...

    I saw so many calls for a rollback on the Bnet forums today. Aside from the waypoint exploit, I have no desire to dupe/hack. I wouldn't mind it at all if they just wiped everyone's gold completely, but I'd prefer not to have to start back at step 1 with a complete rollback. Even without a rollback, costs are doomed to go up and up over time since every gold drop is new money in the game, and thus every kill, broken urn, and quest completion is inflationary.
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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
    I look at things in the AH for millions of gold, the damage has been done.
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  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
    A rollback would be a pretty insane method dealing with this. Just imagine someone who just got their first legenday (disappointment). I haven't even gotten one despite over 50 hours of play. Besides, worrying over the effects of inflation is insane. Inflate is the only thing the gold currency can do when it only takes time to make more of it, and only goes away in 15% cuts on the AH. It is like making leaves into money; sure everyone becomes fabulously wealthy, but the price of socketed weapons gets to be on the order of two deciduous forests.
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  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
    Yes, but once we find the soap mines we'll be set.
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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 13th, 2012 at 12:30 am
    On that note, we've been having trouble with this wheel thing, we need to know what colour it should be.
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  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
    Im glad Blizz is banning all the chinese farmers, but I'm still going to wait a little while longer until I start playing D3 again.
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  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 12th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
    Wait until the next patch when they balance the game. That's when I'm going to finish Inferno. By then, a PvP release date should be announced~.
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