Blizzard Says Diablo 3 Hacking Isn't Unusual - UPDATED
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Isn't this more than just simple account hacking? I would say its more in line with theft considering the auction house. You spend $250 on an item and it gets stolen from your character then isn't Blizzard liable?
no doubt.Adam Jensen said:
you'd think they'd have learned to watch out for this kinda thing and react a little quicker and ya know, with some tact.
again.
this is why i do not PuG, it's ether solo or people i know out side the game
So basically, you buy your single player game in a store, can't play it because some fuckwit at blizzard thought always online was a good idea, and then after you do finally get to play it by downloading various programs, cracking into someone elses wi-fi and then waiting for blizzards servers to work, you power level up to level 30 and get all the good loot.
And then your single player game gets hacked into and all of your loot stolen.
What the hell happens when that bullshit real money auction house happens?
Can Blizzard be sued for not stopping theft?
Fuck you blizzard. So glad i didn't go near D3 when i heard about the auction house and the always online.
And then your single player game gets hacked into and all of your loot stolen.
What the hell happens when that bullshit real money auction house happens?
Can Blizzard be sued for not stopping theft?
Fuck you blizzard. So glad i didn't go near D3 when i heard about the auction house and the always online.
I've been on the fence about getting this but if i do cracking the game seems more and more attractive, no lag or down time and no hacks and the AH doesn't really seem worth it.
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I don't own D3 nor do I plan on buying it. That being said I'm still pissed off about this! Like Matrix said, the DRM is supposed to protect the users from this sort of thing isn't it? That's what Blizzard said after all. Hold on a sec...matrix3509 said:
The authenticator system may have been designed as a deterrent but it obviously isn't working as one and it doesn't look like Blizzard is too bothered by it. I wouldn't be surprised if Jim did a followup episode about the breaching of these accounts as another reason gamers should be pissed off at Blizzard for making D3 unplayable offline. I look forward to seeing how many hours it takes, if it even takes a single hour, before hackers break into the real-money auction houses and start stealing things a bit more important than in-game items.Andy Chalk said:
Has anybody reported other vital information being stolen at this point? log-in information? credit card information? that sort of thing? If not then its only a matter of time.
Aeshi said:
direkiller said:
Diablo 2 had some problems in multiplayer, sure. But Id like to see some links showing that single-player D2 players were having their characters accessed and tampered with against their will...EcksTeaSea said:
I dont remember that happening.
So much this.Adam Jensen said:
If you see this with every WoW expansion someone somewhere should have said "Hey guys maybe we should fix this incredibly recurring problem that causes huge outburst of hate and inevitable bad PR" I guess everyone else was like "Sorry, could you repeat that, this massive pile of money makes it hard to hear what you're saying, or to give a fuck in the first place."
The interesting thing about Diablo is it seems to be like a single player MMO, you are playing off the server even in single player mode. You can see this because there are occasion rubber banding and other artifacts when you have high latency. In a sense they had to do this once they added the real cash AH to the game. I don't like it but I understand it and am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The hacking stuff, well in any game that has a real money online component a two factor auth system like the authenticator is required imho.
The hacking stuff, well in any game that has a real money online component a two factor auth system like the authenticator is required imho.
figures...blizzard being blizzard
shit, i forgot his name...where is that one blizzard paladin at? usually he'd be in here by now throwing everyone out the window for getting up in arms about this. i'm surprised.
*hunches down with popcorn to watch*
honestly blizzard, if you had made an offline single player mode, this could have at LEAST been avoidable, but noooo, if you want to play D3, it's required of you to be online and near effectively be at some type of risk.
did d2 offline ever have any hacks or anything of some sort? please tell me if i'm wrong.
shit, i forgot his name...where is that one blizzard paladin at? usually he'd be in here by now throwing everyone out the window for getting up in arms about this. i'm surprised.
*hunches down with popcorn to watch*
honestly blizzard, if you had made an offline single player mode, this could have at LEAST been avoidable, but noooo, if you want to play D3, it's required of you to be online and near effectively be at some type of risk.
did d2 offline ever have any hacks or anything of some sort? please tell me if i'm wrong.
This is probably covered in the EULA, saying they are at no fault what-so-ever, even if the hack is server side.Von Strimmer said:
Seems like Blizzard not wanting to take responsibility for their own security and other problems. I'm paticularly annoyed with them trying to say "oh well, the hacking isn't actually all that rampant, this is how it normally is". If this is how it normally is when a new game is released they bloody well should have been ready for it before now.
I'll be blunt, I am playing Diablo III, my copy finally showed up, but after 6 hours I'm already banging my head into the desk periodically (and came to kill some time blowing off steam on these forums). The online is horrible, I mean I've actually rubber banded in a Diablo game when I was by myself... I mean really. My only deaths so far (I'm towards the beginning of the game) have come from lag based banding and screen freezes. The Beta actually ran better than the finished product.
Right now the only way I think Blizzard could fix this would be to patch the game to have an offline mode, but I can't see them doing that for DRM-related reasons, not to mention that the always online component allows them to track loot apparently and provide the fuel for their cash auction house. Helping to reduce the possibility of people playing offline and ignoring the whole thing, or finding ways to dupe loot offline or whatever, and then basically print money.
I'll be blunt, I am playing Diablo III, my copy finally showed up, but after 6 hours I'm already banging my head into the desk periodically (and came to kill some time blowing off steam on these forums). The online is horrible, I mean I've actually rubber banded in a Diablo game when I was by myself... I mean really. My only deaths so far (I'm towards the beginning of the game) have come from lag based banding and screen freezes. The Beta actually ran better than the finished product.
Right now the only way I think Blizzard could fix this would be to patch the game to have an offline mode, but I can't see them doing that for DRM-related reasons, not to mention that the always online component allows them to track loot apparently and provide the fuel for their cash auction house. Helping to reduce the possibility of people playing offline and ignoring the whole thing, or finding ways to dupe loot offline or whatever, and then basically print money.
some one defends blizzard? o.0?gmaverick019 said:
when was this?
anyway, poked back in cause i saw an update tag which amounted to 'we donno' wonderful. well i do have 4 other characters i need to work through normal ....
(beat it today, yeah only normal but shush, i take my time and enjoy the exploration :3)
That's because the people that were tampering were usually the actual players themselves. It was super easy to find stat editors and create crazy items that you wanted.Caffiene said:
yes, *he who shall not be named* tends to favor in blizzard in every instance that i have lurked on...i generally laugh out loud or sit there with my face attached to my palm after reading all his replies to every person in the thread.Lunar Templar said:
(i enjoyed the exploration in diablo too! in D2 i'd always be lurking every edge and destroying everything while my friends tried to rush to the boss and leave me behind as a TP back up for when they died XD )
ah, well thats not terribly help fully, but could be amusing to check back ....gmaverick019 said:
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yeah :3 just in act one there have been a lot of different things happen between the 5 characters i have, so it feels more rewarding, cause 'hey, that cave wasn't there last time' or 'creepy goatman alter with ghost goatman, that's new' :3 finding new stuff is fun (that and I'm trying to 'find' one last event for act 1)
Well, I guess I just got hit. I was playing when I got kicked and it told me someone logged in from another computer. Error 60.
I immediately changed my password and logged back in. Nothing appears to be lost so maybe I reacted quickly. Yeah though, I am playing single player and if not for Blizzard insisting I play online, I wouldn't have been.
I immediately changed my password and logged back in. Nothing appears to be lost so maybe I reacted quickly. Yeah though, I am playing single player and if not for Blizzard insisting I play online, I wouldn't have been.
