Blizzard was quick to clamp down on the unethical practice
Unethical practice… it’s a video game ffs, you coded a buggy game and are now trying to guilt people for using said bug by claiming their actions are unethical… let’s look at how ethical your company is hey blizzard?
Glass houses and whatnot.
I’m glad I’ve never given blizzard a cent of my money.
let’s look at how ethical your company is hey blizzard?
“Uhh…we’re Microsoft now, nobody named Blizzard has ever been at this address.”
STOP
BUYING
BLIZZARD
PRODUCTS
I’m glad I ditched this dumpster fire early on as soon as I got a satisfying amount of hours played. Definitely the last time blizzard will see my money, at least on the Diablo franchise.
Jaysis. Just stop buying these exploitative and morally bankrupt games. No “at least on the X franchise”. No “I won’t pay any microtransactions”. No “I won’t preorder”.
They will not change, nor get better as long as they’re selling.
Just STOP buying this shite, everyone.
You didn’t learn your lesson from Diablo 3 or Immortals?
I despise companies that pull bullshit like this. Yes, it is obviously an exploit. Yes, it is breaking the game. However, Blizzard, YOU RELEASED THE BROKEN BULLSHIT. This isn’t some freeware title hoping to eek by on a donation. This is a multi billion dollar company that has had years of development to get this shit right. Fuck you, Blizzard. I’m glad I didn’t pay for your shit, and I will continue with that trend into the foreseeable future. Dump some of your capital into QA instead of CEO wallets. Companies shouldn’t be able to ban someone from playing something that they paid for, unless explicitly stated in the EULA, and a generic clause about “exploits” isn’t explicit.
Yeah, sure, just go ahead and list every bug in the game that you don’t know about before you can ban someone for it.
Quit being willfully obtuse.
I’m not surprised to see this at all. Blizzard has always been pretty protective of their in-game economies, and this exploit flooded the seasonal realm with a ton of gold that shouldn’t have been there. Anybody who tried this should have 100% expected to get banned.
Ban people playing the game they bought over this? How about a simple rollback
It sounds like you needed to log one character into the wrong server and disconnect/reconnect the internet at the right time, so it seems pretty unlikely anybody banned actually did this unintentionally.
There isn’t really much need to rollback every innocent player if the exploited stuff is relatively traceable.
The exploit in question: You disconnect and transfer non-seasonal items to a seasonal character.
Sounds like a ban worthy exploit to me
transfer non-seasonal items to a seasonal character.
I haven’t been following Diablo 4, could somebody explain this bit? The article doesn’t explain why transferring items is so disruptive, or what seasonal and non-seasonal items are.
I don’t have 4, but if it’s like 3 then there are regular characters who can die and are persistent, then there are seasonal characters who can die but may only be created at the beginning of, and are deleted at the end of, a given season.
Then there’s hardcore, who are persistent forever but can only die one time. All three have their own ecosystems in which characters created in a given mode can share gold, certain upgrades, and items with each other, but not outside of their own mode. You can have multiple hardcore characters share items and gold, but you can’t give those to regular or seasonal characters, and so on.
Why wouldn’t you just delete the affected characters
D4 sucks, play BG3 instead.
And let’s just compare two games that have absolutely nothing in common 🙄
Anyone know if the PS5 version will have local multi-player?
Why not both
There is only so much time in this mortal existence.
You’re free to do what you want, but I for one will not be supporting them based on their monetization strategies and anti-consumer practices.
Blizzard just has to be like Larian, release a feature complete singleplayer game with the ability to play multiplayer, it’s that easy. No need for battlepasses, or $30 skins, no need for always online drm.
These are terrible business practices born of greed and hubris that need to die.
