Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

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An article on Blend Games contains a video they say demonstrates that item duping was possible in Diablo III before a hotfix addressed this. All the clip demonstrated for me is my inability to understand foreign languages, but this post explains how this took advantage of the game's checkpoint system to craft items at the cost of no resources, hopefully a moot point now that its fixed. They use this incident to once again question the game's inconvenient always-on DRM. They also discuss how Blizzard is handling account rollbacks in cases where accounts are compromised, taking issue with Battle.net account security as the launch of the real-money auction house for the action/RPG sequel nears. Speaking of which, this post (thanks nin via Kotaku) notes that Blizzard has changed the terms of service for Diablo III to require the use of their authenticator for real-money transactions:

Starting today, in order to add to your Battle.net Balance, players will be required to have a Battle.net Authenticator or Battle.net Mobile Authenticator attached to their Battle.net account. For clarity, this means you’ll need to have an Authenticator to add to your balance via Battle.net Account Management or to send the proceeds of your real-money auction house sales to your Battle.net Balance.

Please note that players who previously added Battle.net Balance to their account prior to this change will be able to use it to make eligible purchases on Battle.net and in the auction house without attaching an Authenticator. However, an Authenticator will be required to add to your balance in the future, as explained above.

While we understand that this creates an extra step for players during the login process, we believe this added layer of account protection will help foster a safer auction house environment for all of our players.

You can learn more about the Battle.net Authenticator, Battle.net Mobile Authenticator, and other account security information by clicking here.

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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:47

Krovven

Blue wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 11:35: Krovven wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 11:32: They use this incident to once again question the game's inconvenient always-on DRM. Really Blue? So this was fixed in a few days instead of a few months (ie: how it was for Diablo 2), and this brings into question the benefits of always-on? /facepalm If anything is shows the benefit of it. "They use this incident to once again question the game's inconvenient always-on DRM." Emphasis added, though it seemed clear enough to begin with. Right, that's why you tacked that troll bait story as the lead onto a story regarding the official terms of service being updated for the Authenticator and the RMAH.

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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:41

Paketep

PHJF wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 11:27: ROLLBACK I COULD NOT FUCKING THINK OF THAT WORD YESTERDAY. I'd love to make a rollback of Blizzard to before they where bought/merged with Acti and became this bunch of douchebags.

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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:35

Blue

Krovven wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 11:32:
They use this incident to once again question the game's inconvenient always-on DRM.

Really Blue? So this was fixed in a few days instead of a few months (ie: how it was for Diablo 2), and this brings into question the benefits of always-on? /facepalm If anything is shows the benefit of it.

"They use this incident to once again question the game's inconvenient always-on DRM."

Emphasis added, though it seemed clear enough to begin with.




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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:33

xXBatmanXx

Verno wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 11:28:
Turning on Warden and going after the bots would be a nice step too. So much gold has already flooded the economy I'm not sure there's any going back but they need to do something soon regardless. There's several working ones and a hundred AutoIT/AHK scripts.

Well, I assume with some reports and maint they can do on their end that it probably isn't very hard to find accounts that are manipulating the system. At least they are actively working on these problems. I stay in private games with friends and mind my own business.

Game is a blast.

The duping thing, big whoop, I can't imagine it is that hard to track the stuff down....




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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:32

Krovven

They use this incident to once again question the game's inconvenient always-on DRM. Really Blue? So this was fixed in a few days instead of a few months (ie: how it was for Diablo 2), and this brings into question the benefits of always-on? /facepalm If anything is shows the benefit of it. What does bring into question of the always-on, is the use of bots. They should have been stamped out just as quickly as the duping exploit.

Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:31

Wallshadows

There are already tons of AutoIT scripts and bots floating around out there to farming the chest in front of the Dye trader in Act 3 to Sarkoth in Act 1. But to play devil's advocate for a moment, this wasn't really duping or, at least, duping as we know it in the Diablo world where you can just duplicate an item over and over and over. What these players were doing is crashing the game after being unsuccessful with crafting a decent item from the BS (shocking, I know) and this method would allow them to infinitely have a crack at crafting an item since the materials would always be available but would still cost the crafting fee. They wouldn't be able to then duplicate the item once it's made or at least it's not implied or shown. Meanwhile, I would like to direct your attention to this and this which are just...well...watch... It's unfortunate because the longer this game has been out the more it feels as though the cons are slowly beginning to outweigh the pros. I'm going to hang in there till at least 1.03 though and see how it feels from there.

Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:29

Matshock

Meh, I'll just wait for the class action lawsuit.

Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:28

Verno

Turning on Warden and going after the bots would be a nice step too. So much gold has already flooded the economy I'm not sure there's any going back but they need to do something soon regardless. There's several working ones and a hundred AutoIT/AHK scripts.




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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:27

PHJF

ROLLBACK

I COULD NOT FUCKING THINK OF THAT WORD YESTERDAY.




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Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:23

AngelicPenguin

deqer wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 11:14: changing the terms whenever they want, for any reason or no reason, whether you like it or not. have fun, players. Wait - do you NOT like diablo 3 and/or blizzard? I wasn't sure...

Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 11:14

deqer

changing the terms whenever they want, for any reason or no reason, whether you like it or not. have fun, players.

Re: Diablo III Item Duping Hotfixed? RMAH to Require Authenticator

Jun 11, 2012, 10:54

Rattlehead

first!

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