Diablo 3's Gold-Duplication Debacle

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/334143-diablo-3-patch-1-08-rmah-gold-duping-debacle

Whoops.

TLDR: A bug went live that let you duplicate gold. The result was quadrillions worth of gold injected into the economy.

Bullet points quoted from the article:

* No Rollback. They say it would take too many man hours and it would also hurt legitimate players who were playing last night (although the overwhelming argument from those legitimate players is mostly that they would rather lose one night of work than deal with the repercussions of NOT doing a rollback).

* Blizzard has been able to identify and is actively banning anyone who used this exploit. Although they have not officially stated this, they are also temporarily suspending those who may have indirectly benefited from the gold duping (such as the runaway RMAH gem price inflation that occurred as a result). They are refunding many purchases, but the vast majority will probably not be refunded.

Bet they don't make THAT mistake again...

In vanilla Warcraft gold was much more valuable than now. Also, around BC time they boosted quest rewards and lowered drops. It caused some inflation, but this wasn't a bad thing.

Also they implemented a number of security protocols and their passkey system, which helped a lot. A lot of gold farmers get their cash by hacking their clients' accounts. That put a damper on it at least.

Heh. I actually don't know if the servers are back up yet. But that wasn't what you were going for here, I'm sure.

But they've got you back to playing at least, right? That's good.