What a mess. That's probably the easiest and best way to describe what's gone on with the latest dupe glitch found in Diablo 3. The short of it, is that someone discovered how they could easily duplicate millions of gold at a time. As we should all know, creating substantial amounts of money out of nothing isn't good for this or any economy.
That millions turned to trillions and before long a number of people had produced fake gold and injected it back into the game. How? They spent the duplicated gold on every high level item in the Diablo 3 Auction House. This had prompted Blizzard to not only shut down both the normal Auction House but also the Real Money Auction House.
Some time was spent working on a fix, which was rolled out last night. However, the auction houses are still down. In addition, Blizzard is refusing to roll back the servers to a state prior to this all happening. Instead, they are going to go through and perform audits on all transactions made through the auction house as well as the trades in which gold was exchanged made since the launch of 1.0.8.
They said that this process will take hours to complete. The 1.0.8 patch for Diablo 3 went live yesterday. Many fans are offering up critiques of "R.I.P. Diablo 3" in their forum responses to the news that a rollback wasn't going to happen.
Feel free to read through the 88 pages (and growing steadily) of the official Battle.net forum thread where this issue is being discussed.
That millions turned to trillions and before long a number of people had produced fake gold and injected it back into the game. How? They spent the duplicated gold on every high level item in the Diablo 3 Auction House. This had prompted Blizzard to not only shut down both the normal Auction House but also the Real Money Auction House.
Some time was spent working on a fix, which was rolled out last night. However, the auction houses are still down. In addition, Blizzard is refusing to roll back the servers to a state prior to this all happening. Instead, they are going to go through and perform audits on all transactions made through the auction house as well as the trades in which gold was exchanged made since the launch of 1.0.8.
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 believe 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.
They said that this process will take hours to complete. The 1.0.8 patch for Diablo 3 went live yesterday. Many fans are offering up critiques of "R.I.P. Diablo 3" in their forum responses to the news that a rollback wasn't going to happen.
Feel free to read through the 88 pages (and growing steadily) of the official Battle.net forum thread where this issue is being discussed.