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"In any case, this is more misfortune for Diablo III in what's been a very controversial and problematic launch."
I'm just curious... what exactly has been problematic outside of the day 1 issues? I've had no problems since then.
I'm just curious... what exactly has been problematic outside of the day 1 issues? I've had no problems since then.
This is one of the things I can only care about when it happens to me. Better check my account to see if I care yet. Hopefully not.
I dont see diablo 3 being anywhere near as popular as diablo 2. It seems to lack the charm of part 2, or even the fun. The first 3 of 4 acts are almost like redone acts from diablo 2 so it feels like lack of creativity on their part, and the lack of character customization sucks bad.
On top of everything else, I think diablo 3 won't sport as big a playerbase as diablo 2 in 6 months, especially since people will buy all their loot instead of find it, get bored, and quit. I am only in hell difficulty at the moment, and I already feel the lethargy after buying a weapon off the gold auction house. There is less of a reason to keep exploring for loot when it is all easily available for gold.
On top of everything else, I think diablo 3 won't sport as big a playerbase as diablo 2 in 6 months, especially since people will buy all their loot instead of find it, get bored, and quit. I am only in hell difficulty at the moment, and I already feel the lethargy after buying a weapon off the gold auction house. There is less of a reason to keep exploring for loot when it is all easily available for gold.
@Soulcage
Friend of mine with an authenticator was hacked a couple days ago.
Some people are speculating it's something to do with an exploit in the Auction House.
Friend of mine with an authenticator was hacked a couple days ago.
Some people are speculating it's something to do with an exploit in the Auction House.
@Soulcage
Some people on the Diablo 3 forums with authenticators complained about gold/ items going missing. Although some did say that not everything was missing so it's most likely a problem with data being saved as well as hacking. Apparently Blizzard support told most people their accounts had not been compromised, and told some that they wasn't doing character roll-backs.
Although I have no idea how much of this is true or it's just people making shit up, since I pretty much got all this info from forum posts.
Some people on the Diablo 3 forums with authenticators complained about gold/ items going missing. Although some did say that not everything was missing so it's most likely a problem with data being saved as well as hacking. Apparently Blizzard support told most people their accounts had not been compromised, and told some that they wasn't doing character roll-backs.
Although I have no idea how much of this is true or it's just people making shit up, since I pretty much got all this info from forum posts.
Here's a post from the Diablo 3 boards about session IDs and public games.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149539239
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149539239
It isn't impossible to get hacked with an authenticator, but to do it the person would need to go to some fake website and enter their auth number and login, or download a fake launcher. Those fake sites log into Battle.Net using that persons Auth number, but it only has 30 seconds to accomplish it before the next number comes up. Website hacks and launcher hacks do this automatically, and then notify the hacker that wrote it that they caught a fish.
However nobody is going to be guessing an authenticator number within the 30 seconds before it rotates, so I would still like to hear from someone with an auth that got hacked so we can hear some detail behind it.
However nobody is going to be guessing an authenticator number within the 30 seconds before it rotates, so I would still like to hear from someone with an auth that got hacked so we can hear some detail behind it.
At this point I think they should just completely cancel the real money Auction House. Even with authenticators, people have reported being hacked, who knows what'll happen when people start using actual bank accounts
I wonder how many of those accounts had authenticators..... zero?
Come on people, there's no excuse to not have one. It's even free for phones.
Come on people, there's no excuse to not have one. It's even free for phones.
First thing that needs to be established if this is an actual server based hack (bad), or if this is just some known person's account being hijacked 'cause he set his BN password to "1234".
I'm not sure they can keep up the pretense that this bullshit actually works much longer.
So... go hackers? :/
So... go hackers? :/
If only there were some sort of solution to this problem, like perhaps making it so people playing a single player game can be cut off from potential hackers, protecting themselves from the people who would do their stuff harm.
My witch doctor lost all of his items and my gold was gone. I sent a ticket in after changing my password and adding an authenticator and they told me they saw nothing indicating a hack. So I'm SOL in getting my stuff back I guess.
I'm halfway through Nightmare and all i have to say is, I'm somewhat enjoying Diablo 2.5
Diablo 3? doesn't exist.
Diablo 3? doesn't exist.
@Mr Andy Dixon
I think maybe once? But I cant say for certain, because I didn't have my eye glued on the Diablo 3 Server Status page for days on end.
I think maybe once? But I cant say for certain, because I didn't have my eye glued on the Diablo 3 Server Status page for days on end.
Probably just brute force. I work for an ISP and people have terrible password practices. A word generator can crack a lot of passwords in under 10 minutes.
Use special characters people! With a capital letter, number and special character it would take the fastest computer in the world around 10,000 years to guess it.
Use special characters people! With a capital letter, number and special character it would take the fastest computer in the world around 10,000 years to guess it.
You used to be able to sit down and play some vidja games and not have some asshole jump out o's some virtual alley and steal ur goddamn gold bits.
I'm keeping my real money far, far away from those servers.
Anyone know if this is only an EU problem?
Anyone know if this is only an EU problem?
@SephirothX: There's been multiple days of downtime. Not 24 hour days, but yea several days of 12 hour downtime...
Which, ok.. that sucks and all, I can forgive that, but as the "uptime" goes.. when I lose twenty minutes of play and lose all that progress because of some issue that their server disconnected me - that's a big deal and makes me iffy about wanting to play it again. I'm seeking a refund. Yeah it'll be a pain in the ass but I'm going to try.. I wish I hadn't supported this always online BS.. I bought impulsively.
Which, ok.. that sucks and all, I can forgive that, but as the "uptime" goes.. when I lose twenty minutes of play and lose all that progress because of some issue that their server disconnected me - that's a big deal and makes me iffy about wanting to play it again. I'm seeking a refund. Yeah it'll be a pain in the ass but I'm going to try.. I wish I hadn't supported this always online BS.. I bought impulsively.
Down 3-4 times on launch day, down 2-3 times a couple days after that(the day the AH was taken down). Euro servers were down for what, 5+ hours yesterday with no Blizzard post other than the obligatory CM response of "Its being looked into".
Then theres all this server muck ups wiping character items and gold, achievements broken, and now mass account hacks(from the sound of things, dont know how many are hacks and how many are server fuckups but its more than a few.
*scratches head* So how was this "Online only" stuff supposed to be a good thing for the players?
Then theres all this server muck ups wiping character items and gold, achievements broken, and now mass account hacks(from the sound of things, dont know how many are hacks and how many are server fuckups but its more than a few.
*scratches head* So how was this "Online only" stuff supposed to be a good thing for the players?
Forgot to mention that many people who are playing games solo get DCd for no other reason than because the servers got lazy and decided to stop storing your data, so youre forced to leave General chat on or group. LOL.
how are they still going through the real money auction house with such glaring holes in their security protocols.
Clearly hackers are just much better it technicians than security programmers.
Well, I'm happy i didn't buy this game. Saves me so much hustle now. Seriously thou it makes me want to wait for pirate edition, even thou i don't pirate at all. Because if it happened so early in the cycle then it will happen again at some point in the future. Shame :/
Well, I'm happy i didn't buy this game. Saves me so much hustle now. Seriously thou it makes me want to wait for pirate edition, even thou i don't pirate at all. Because if it happened so early in the cycle then it will happen again at some point in the future. Shame :/
I find the idea of the auction house kind of sickening. And this shows another problem with it - people will want to steal other people's accounts to sell off their stuff for real-world $$.
@EDOfying Films
You realize there is a free application available for Android/iOS right? Completely free.
You realize there is a free application available for Android/iOS right? Completely free.
You know, I'm not usually one to cheer for hackers and RMT sweatshops, but I really do hope Diablo III is undermined by them - and it probably will be - for Activision and Blizzard's arrogance in trying to legitimize RMT as a revenue source.
If RMT can't inflate, they'll deflate AH items so no player sees a profit in it and they'll still rake in monty. If deflation is made difficult, they'll just keep on hacking accounts like we're seeing now and find new holes to exploit.
The RMT sweatshops have an advantage Blizzard and players will never have - they're on 24/7, they work in shifts and aren't daunted by accounts deleted - they just start a new account. The irony is Blizzard should know from WoW that this fight is nothing short of futile.
The only way to beat an RMT sweatshop is to obsolete their service, which Blizzard won't do because that stops their resubscriptions to WoW or buying new copies of Diablo to try again, but there are ways to remove RMT sweatshops from the equation by game design and other entries in the genre have done it.
If RMT can't inflate, they'll deflate AH items so no player sees a profit in it and they'll still rake in monty. If deflation is made difficult, they'll just keep on hacking accounts like we're seeing now and find new holes to exploit.
The RMT sweatshops have an advantage Blizzard and players will never have - they're on 24/7, they work in shifts and aren't daunted by accounts deleted - they just start a new account. The irony is Blizzard should know from WoW that this fight is nothing short of futile.
The only way to beat an RMT sweatshop is to obsolete their service, which Blizzard won't do because that stops their resubscriptions to WoW or buying new copies of Diablo to try again, but there are ways to remove RMT sweatshops from the equation by game design and other entries in the genre have done it.
Is this for real? Wasn't the point of the whole online-only debacle to prevent this exact thing from happening?
@Fellblade: In theory, the always online requirement was meant to prevent cheating, like item duplication.
This is "okay", because the items were acquired legitimately. (then stolen)
This is "okay", because the items were acquired legitimately. (then stolen)
@Fellblade Thats exaclty what I was thinking too. I am now not regretting purchasing this game until 1) it comes down in price, and 2) this shit gets fixed.
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