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Diablo 3 Auction House Up & Running, Cheaters Won’t Prosper
EVE Online
Diablo 3 ain’t. While players of the Icelandic MMO giant’s opus are all
but encouraged to try and wreck the game’s economy and exploiters keep
their loot after loopholes are plugged, Blizzard is nowhere near as
forgiving. The recent Auction House exploit that allowed players to make
out like bandits has been closed and the 415 cheaters dealt with.
"The bug was the result of a coding error
that was exposed when we increased the gold stack size from 1 million to
10 million,” according to John Hight, Diablo III production
director. ”This resulted in an overflow on cancelled auctions that
yielded a greater amount of gold in return. Only a relatively small
number of players had the billions of gold necessary to exploit the bug,
and only 415 of those players chose to use this exploit for personal
gain.”