Diablo 3 has been out for a couple weeks now. Everyone by now that's interested has heard of its launch troubles and all the various reviews that call it from cartoonish to amazing and brilliant.
The other issue that has arises is account security. There are many claims on the official forums and even in other forums about how their accounts have been compromised, and their ingame items and currency have all been stolen.
Blizzard has responded on various posts stating: These things happen, but are usually the result of the customer not being careful online rather than any fault with Blizzard's security.
Some are claiming that even with their authenticators(supplied by Blizzard) that are used to improve their security they have still lost items and gold. This can be several things that could be happening.
1. People are making these claims in the hopes that they can double their gold and items since they passed them off to friends to hang onto while they basically CON Blizzard for their items and gold back. Effectively duplicating their acquired wealth.
2. People are using the "Gold farming" and character leveling services of various nefarious website, who then after getting access to their accounts strip them of their wealth and run off with it rather than actually do as they were paid.
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3. There really is a security breach on the authentication servers for Blizzard games. Thus, causing a spree of account thefts and gold loss which then spurs the "Gold farmers" to sell their ill gotten goods on the chat channels ingame.
Honestly, the gold selling websites are constantly spamming in games like diablo 3, world of warcraft, and even many other non-Blizzard games. They make a living scamming people and then selling the goods online to the people who have the cash to do so. This ruins a games economy and causes ill will to the company who runs the game.
Unless Blizzard comes right out and admits it has a problem with its security, we'll never know for sure what it might be. It doesn't really matter in the long run either, people will play their games. They will continue to make cash by the dump truck load, and gold sellers will always exist. What I do wish they would do is step up and be a leader in the field of combating the menace of account theft and gold selling. The currency market for video game currency is very very dark. There are stories from over seas of near slave like conditions where people are forced to reach quotas in how much gold they can make/scam/or steal from other players for their gold selling company.
In a perfect world people actually have to obey the rules of the game they are playing, no gold buying, no cheating, and hacking the games. If only people would just relax and enjoy the games, but competitive gaming forces people to do crazy things.
My original World of Warcraft guild for instance traded thousands of gold and cash to a farmer who was hacking the game to farm rare minerals. We used these minerals to progress in the content quickly and get ahead fast. I wasn't directly involved, but I did benefit from the guilds overall progression. I was there for nearly every new boss kill and every new piece of content from the beginning till before the first expansion. So even though I didn't use this gold seller myself, I was there with people who did.
7 years later, I can't say I'd do anything different, but I do wish this kind of thing still didn't exist. Cause if one of the leading guilds on our server could do it, then anyone could. Except for the person who can't afford to spend cash. Thus creating a gap in the economy that really shouldn't exist.
So again, I wish Blizzard and other companies would come up with a true secure connection for their games. At least that way we could all game in peace and know we weren't vulnerable to someone out their looking to make a quick buck and ruin someones day in the process.
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