{"id":53832,"date":"2013-05-13T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53832"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:21:50","slug":"blizzard-bans-gold-duping-players-gives-money-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/53832-blizzard-bans-gold-duping-players-gives-money-to-charity","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard bans gold-duping players, gives money to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard has banned all the Diablo 3 players involved with the gold-duping exploit<\/a> that emerged last week, and will donate all their accumulated funds (from the banned players\u2019 auctions) to charity.<\/p>\n

Diablo 3 production director John Hight announced that the company will be “donating all proceeds from auctions conducted by the suspended or banned players-including all of their sale proceeds that we intercepted as well as our transaction fee-to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.”<\/p>\n

After analysing what happened, Blizzard has revealed that only 415 players took advantage of the exploit for personal gain.<\/p>\n

The company also emphasised that all legitimate transactions will follow through as normal.<\/p>\n

Blizzard\u2019s 1.0.8 patch for Diablo III initially allowed players to exploit a flaw that let them duplicate gold \u2013 this bug was then suggested to be exploitable in the real-money auction house, which then happened.<\/p>\n

The bug has been ironed out and all servers are back online.<\/p>\n

“On behalf of the development team, I just want to say thanks again to those of you who took the time to notify us about this situation, as well as apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you personally,” added Hight. \u201cWe highly value fair play, and we\u2019re going to continue to monitor the game and take steps necessary to prevent exploits like this from happening in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Battle.net\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n

More Diablo 3 news:<\/h3>\n

Diablo 3 patch introduces gold duping bug<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Diablo 3 auction houses hurt the game: director<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Diablo was once a \u201cturn-based DOS game\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Diablo 3 on PS3, PS4: offline co-op confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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