Diablo III auctions remain closed as Blizzard conducts thorough audit

[DainBramaged]

In the wake of a gold duplication bug that let savvy players mine their own in-game currency, Blizzard is now conducting a full audit of auction house transactions to remove any impact on the wider in-game and real-money economies.

Blizzard identified and fixed the duplication bug shortly after it was discovered following Tuesday morning's introduction of the 1.0.8 patch to the game. But the developer has kept the in-game auction houses closed and has prohibited gold trading since then as it tries to determine just how the illicit in-game currency affected the auction market for items and weaponry. Blizzard currently estimates auction services will be down until some time on Friday afternoon at the earliest, long past the target time of 9am Pacific today, when Blizzard had expected normal service to resume.

"This audit is a time-intensive process, and to make sure that we can do a thorough job, we’re going to keep the Auction Houses in maintenance until that work is complete," Community Manager Lylirra said apologetically in a forum post announcing the move.

Blizzard decided to conduct the audit rather than perform a server rollback to undo the damage from the duplication exploit. Lyllira said Blizzard thought an audit focused on the "few players that exploited this bug" would be less disruptive than "taking everyone offline for a day (or more)—losing all the progress they made."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/diablo-iii-auctions-remain-closed-as-blizzard-conducts-thorough-audit/

[JesterCS]

1. i rarely play anymore

if at all. I logged on after 1.0.8. and liked the increased monster density, otherwise it was still the same game. Wish they wouldnt have went so linear

[el_bryanto]

3. i'm playing it a bit more

But yeah - basically they did Diablo II with better graphics, and the market has changed significantly since then. Its fun, but its not nearly as addictive, and the hassles outweigh the fun if you play for too long.

Bryant

[Newest Reality]

2. Too bad we can't

do the same thing with Wall St. and the Fed.

Wow, that would be a REAL game changer.