If you were thinking about picking Diablo 3 back up after their latest patch, you may want to wait until they patch the patch. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself surrounded by people with piles of gold they didn’t earn.
The latest update to Diablo 3 is one of the largest to the game so far, which is necessary not only for existing players but to get the game itself ready for the inevitable PS3/PS4 launch. It introduces tweaks to the single player and multi-player aspects of the game, and was expected to be fairly well received. In fact, it should have been enough to remind people that they own a copy of Diablo 3 and encourage them to journey once more into the Burning Hells.
Unfortunately, one of the tweaks made to the Auction House caused a new glitch that doubles the gold of anyone who changes their mind in the middle of a transaction. If you sell some of your gold on the Real Money Auction House, and then cancel before any transaction is complete, you’ll find that double the amount of gold you had intended to sell is now in your account. This was confirmed from multiple sources, including a live stream where one user clearly demonstrates the glitch taking place. It’s probably a pretty bad idea to try this yourself, but it is a very real issue.
There’s a lot of speculation regarding how exactly Blizzard will fix this. Rolling back the servers to the previous version and reversing these transactions seems like the most logical course of action, but in doing so you’re also inconveniencing legitimate players who have been conducting legitimate transactions to adjust their builds to better fit the tweaks in the update. Since this issue clearly affects both auction houses, it’s something Blizzard will need to handle quickly.
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