Diablo III Patch 1.0.8a formally launched in the Americas

This week’s regularly-scheduled maintenance has concluded and Diablo III Patch 1.0.8a formally launched in the Americas. Please read below the patch announcement about the latest changes

Notice：Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch 1.0.8a until the patch is live in your home region. If you are logging in from a European or Asian client, you will need to wait for this patch to release in that region before it can be installed. Additionally, if your home region is the Americas, you will be unable to log into Europe or Asia using Global Play after patch 1.0.8a is live until those regions have also patched.

Diablo III Patch 1.0.8a – v.1.0.8.16603

GENERAL

Made improvements to address “rubberbanding” issues encountered when using movement-based abilities like Tempest Rush, Strafe, and Whirlwind

AUCTION HOUSE

The stack size of gold on the real-money auction house has been increased again to 10 million (up from 1 million)

CLASSES

Barbarian

Passive Skills

Inspiring Presence

Will once again be displayed under Life per Second on the character sheet

USER INTERFACE

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue introduced in Patch 1.0.8 that prevented Item Label Display preferences from being saved

BUG FIXES

Fixed an issue introduced in Patch 1.0.8 causing dungeon exits to sometimes be placed in abnormally close proximity to the entrance

Fixed an issue introduced in Patch 1.0.8 that prevented players with Starter Edition accounts from being upgraded when playing in an IGR

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Diablo 3 U.S. service brush gold continued: Players illegal gains will be donated to charity

Diablo 3 product director John Hight made a detailed explanation to the cause of the brush gold BUG incident and treatment method. All players seek BUG personal gain was frozen and banned, their ill-gotten gains (including the Blizzard sample fee) will be donated to the Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.

The America server after patch 1.08 online on Tuesday in a short period of time, players found through cash auction houses a BUG can copy gold COINS. The reason is that we sell gold COINS per pile cap increased from 1 million to 10 million, there is a code error, leading to the emergence of this BUG.

Selling gold overflow caused by auction cancel will bring more gold in return. Only a small number of players have such a huge amount of gold to take advantage of this loophole, at the same time, only 415 players chose to use this vulnerability to seek personal gain.

When Blizzard confirm what happened after, immediately shut down the server in the Americas and stop the gold auction house to sell services to stop this behavior. They immediately start to repair the loophole, development, test, and apply to repair to all parts of the server group, the work in the day is done. And at the same time, they ensure that in other parts of the 1.08 patch (BUG fixes) after launch on time.

Gold to sell, the auction house kept offline service has been suspended, until they finish for all transactions complete audit work within that time. When the review is completed, they immediately returned to all services.

In the process, there have a temporary freeze on all suspected of using the BUG and have duplicate accounts of COINS or items. Once you confirm the account to participate in the brush gold, they will according to the behavior of the account to freeze or back (roll back).

The vast majority of players are not involved in acts of exploitation of vulnerability, and we believe Blizzard would not punish all the players because of bad behavior of Some People.Click read more for all the game details!

Diablo 3 Auction House Temporarily Closed --summary the information and update

As a result of Diablo 3 gold copy bug arise, the gold and real-money Auction Houses offline in the Americas, According to Blizzard community manager said, they immediately carry out the repair work, from now on they don’t have a detail answers when will the Auction House be available.

After BUG repair work completed, Blizzard will assess the event to determine the need for rollback. The players involved in this copy will be in accordance with the “Diablo 3″ abuse of game specification and be punished.

As you may have already seen in the Breaking News window (or discovered while trying to load up the Auction House once logged in), we’ve brought both the gold and real-money Auction Houses offline for maintenance. After the release of Patch 1.0.8 this morning, we found that some players were exploiting a bug that enabled them to duplicate gold through the Auction House. We’re working on fixing the bug right now, and bringing the Auction Houses offline helps us troubleshoot in a more stable environment while preventing further exploiting. Community Manager Lylirra Specifically for this issue gave detailed answers

Q. When will the Auction House be available?

We don’t have an ETA just yet. Our priority at the moment is (of course) to fix the bug and make sure it can’t happen again. We know this is an inconvenience for some of our players, so we’ll be providing updates in this thread as soon as we have any details to share.

Q. Will there be a rollback?

Our priority is to fix any issues with the game client first—that’s what we’re working on right now. After we’ve addressed the situation, we’ll need to determine whether or not a rollback is appropriate. We know this is an important issue for all of our players, so we’ll be sure keep you informed of what’s happening and will provide any updates in this thread, as well.

Q. Will players be banned for using this dupe?

We’re currently in the process of reviewing the accounts involved and taking appropriate actions, including temporary locks, suspensions, and/or bans. Our exploitation policy for Diablo III can be found here, which should give you an overview of the kinds of activities that are and aren’t cool within the game.

The fate of those who took advantage of the bug remains unclear; Blizzard said in its initial announcement of the auction house shutdown that it has begun the process of “reviewing the accounts involved and taking appropriate actions, including temporary locks, suspensions, and/or bans.” Click read more for all the game details!