Information Diablo III Accounts Hacked

[markec]

Its just matter of when but nothing soon. I personally dont care, even if it goes on a big sale I refuse to support the decline of PC gaming even by a single dollar.

 

[DraQ]

From what I've gathered from some TPB comments they really need to set up a(n emulator) server. A simple crack after leeching all the needed info from the servers or something similarly "simplistic" will probably not cut it.
I previously thought it'd take 1-4 weeks to crack, now I suppose it could be significantly longer (if at all).

So, reverse engineering? I think they will manage to do it - something like Diablo 3 can't have terribly complex game logic server-side.

Good case for all those "I wouldn't have bought the game anyway" pirates to prove themselves.

Doing just that.

(Although I'm more of an occasional "might buy" type, sometimes "would buy if" - occasional because I'm lazy and prefer gauging quality using less bothersome sources if I can count on them being reliable, then buying legit version right away )

 

[Dexter]

I don't really get this question. How do you crack a game where half the game runs on some Blizzard servers? The only way would be to make your own game and create your own loot and gameplay functions which would take months, years.

Unless someone working at Blizzard leaks stuff, that is.

http://www.mooege.org/
They had it already somewhat working during the Beta/with the Beta Client I believe with lots of functionality missing.
All loot, monster spawns, quest triggers, NPCs, I believe even some AI scripts and whatnot are apparently serverside though so it will take quite a while, or some Russian/Chinese programming cracks might come out with something out of left field (like that chinese dude that did a LAN Mode for StarCraft 2).

Also for people saying there's no Hacks & shit out there and the game is "safe", something nice to Google for is "D3Advanced"...

 

[Jasede]

Hah, that was fast.

 

[Shannow]

Holy fuck. I was just thinking what it would take for me to even consider purchasing D3 (offline mode, security, balance/RPG patches and probably 1-3 expansion packs in a nice-price bundle). So I looked on amazon.de to what the 60$ price tag was translated in €.
It's 83 fucking €. For the normal non-CE version. The game gets an average user score of 2,5/5.
And still they're nearly sold out. http://www.amazon.de/Blizzard-Diabl...5LNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337973047&sr=8-1

I'll go kill myself. There's obviously no sentient life left on this planet.

 

[DraQ]

Holy fuck. I was just thinking what it would take for me to even consider purchasing D3 (offline mode, security, balance/RPG patches and probably 1-3 expansion packs in a nice-price bundle).

For me it would be:

Offline mode without forced activation, character building, actual death and persistence, D1 atmosphere, underping of plot/lore to at least meagre D1 levels and characters to at least D2 level, no human Tyrael (black or otherwise - fallen Tyrael would be ok, though.).

I'll go kill myself. There's obviously no sentient life left on this planet.

Isn't it better to go killing nonsentients?

 

[tiagocc0]

Don't worry guys, Blizzard is working on it:

 

[DragoFireheart]

So I wonder what the hackers think about this?

 

[Shannow]

I'll go kill myself. There's obviously no sentient life left on this planet.

Isn't it better to go killing nonsentients?

Yeah, well. I was really ill those past 4 days, so I felt like killing myself anyway. I'm better this morning though, so I guess I'll save killing myself for a better cause and go back to laughing at morons who whine about D3 or defend its deficiencies after paying 83€ for their 10-hour-40€-expansion-sure-to-come-and-need-to-be-competitive-in-eventual-PvP game.

 

[Dexter]

Yeah, well. I was really ill those past 4 days, so I felt like killing myself anyway. I'm better this morning though, so I guess I'll save killing myself for a better cause and go back to laughing at morons who whine about D3 or defend its deficiencies after paying 83€ for their 10-hour-40€-expansion-sure-to-come-and-need-to-be-competitive-in-eventual-PvP game.

They had already 2 Expansions planned way back in 2010 when their product lineup leaked out of China, although their timing is slightly off:
http://news.mmogamesite.com/blizzard-product-slate-leaked.html

No doubt there'll be at least two after it has been declared the fastest selling PC game ever or whatnot...

 

[tiagocc0]

WOW Brazil? So after they start to decline they decide to come to the third world.

 

[Crispy]

BR BLIZZ?

 

[PorkaMorka]

- Again, it's only a rumor I heard. I don't know for a fact that is how they actually feel about the RMAH. I'm mostly speculating why there is so much hacking going on. I mean, how many on-line games resulted in this much hacking of this kind within the first game? Is it the norm?

With normal MMOs there wouldn't be much of a point to hacking accounts this early, since the treadmill design means that it takes a long time to max out characters. For example if you hacked WOW accounts 11 days after launch you really wouldn't have gotten anything of value, just an insignificant number of gold pieces and some worthless soulbound gear that would be replaced in a few levels. (Even putting aside the fact that Blizzard's launch failures meant that people couldn't actually play for a significant percentage of those 11 days).

I have no clue how the economy or character progression works in D3, but my only fear is that our noble hackers showed their hand a bit too early. If they had waited for the RMAH and mature accounts, they could have gotten thousands of dollars and possibly gotten Blizzard sued.

 

[Crispy]

I have to admit every time I log in I have this nervousness that I'll have been "hacked". My Wizard isn't even level 20 yet and I've only found about 5 yellows so far, though.

 

[DraQ]

I have to admit every time I log in I have this nervousness that I'll have been "hacked". My Wizard isn't even level 20 yet and I've only found about 5 yellows so far, though.

I hope you will.

No offence and nothing personal, but you blizztards seriously need a wake-up call.

 

[tiagocc0]

I have to admit every time I log in I have this nervousness that I'll have been "hacked". My Wizard isn't even level 20 yet and I've only found about 5 yellows so far, though.

Just stop playing, wait a year, hope for the best.

 

[Menckenstein]

What's your BATTLETAG crispor?

we can be blizz broz

 

[DragoFireheart]

- Again, it's only a rumor I heard. I don't know for a fact that is how they actually feel about the RMAH. I'm mostly speculating why there is so much hacking going on. I mean, how many on-line games resulted in this much hacking of this kind within the first game? Is it the norm?

With normal MMOs there wouldn't be much of a point to hacking accounts this early, since the treadmill design means that it takes a long time to max out characters. For example if you hacked WOW accounts 11 days after launch you really wouldn't have gotten anything of value, just an insignificant number of gold pieces and some worthless soulbound gear that would be replaced in a few levels. (Even putting aside the fact that Blizzard's launch failures meant that people couldn't actually play for a significant percentage of those 11 days).

I have no clue how the economy or character progression works in D3, but my only fear is that our noble hackers showed their hand a bit too early. If they had waited for the RMAH and mature accounts, they could have gotten thousands of dollars and possibly gotten Blizzard sued.

- Maybe that is evidence of the fact that they didn't wait because they WANT to delay the RMAH or not let it happen at all. Or they don't care either way.

 

[Metro]

Apparently I was wrong about Blizzard titles never going on sale retail. Looks like SC2 is $35 at Best Buy this week and has been $30ish in the past. I still might pick up D3, but not anytime soon.

 

[Crispy]

Not sure how I'm a Blizztard but whatever.

 

[Infinitron]

- Again, it's only a rumor I heard. I don't know for a fact that is how they actually feel about the RMAH. I'm mostly speculating why there is so much hacking going on. I mean, how many on-line games resulted in this much hacking of this kind within the first game? Is it the norm?

With normal MMOs there wouldn't be much of a point to hacking accounts this early, since the treadmill design means that it takes a long time to max out characters. For example if you hacked WOW accounts 11 days after launch you really wouldn't have gotten anything of value, just an insignificant number of gold pieces and some worthless soulbound gear that would be replaced in a few levels. (Even putting aside the fact that Blizzard's launch failures meant that people couldn't actually play for a significant percentage of those 11 days).

I have no clue how the economy or character progression works in D3, but my only fear is that our noble hackers showed their hand a bit too early. If they had waited for the RMAH and mature accounts, they could have gotten thousands of dollars and possibly gotten Blizzard sued.

- Maybe that is evidence of the fact that they didn't wait because they WANT to delay the RMAH or not let it happen at all. Or they don't care either way.

Yep. Blizzard's business model is fucked either way, only now no innocents lose their money. White hats.

 

[PorkaMorka]

Hmm, the party line is that there is no exploit on blizzard's end and that the hacking is the result of aggressive phishing and keylogging from gold farming companies. The party line also claims that D3 accounts with authenticators aren't being hacked. Certain running dog, pro Kotick sites are pushing this explanation extremely hard and it does seem plausible.

It's not entirely settled though, so let's hope it turns out to have been caused by some security failure on blizzard's part.

Still, even if blizzard manages to escape direct responsibility, this has to be regarded as an extremely positive development. Dumb down all games to appeal to casual gamers? Sure. Move all games online for enhanced DRM? Sure. But when you combine the two and add in online goods that are directly convertible to cash, you might have a problem.

Casual gamers have computers loaded with malware and are vulnerable to browser exploits and phishing. Casual gamers probably don't relish the idea of having to order a dongle off the internet in order to protect their accounts. They also probably don't enjoy getting hacked, posting about it on the forums and then getting mercilessly abused by fanboy trolls for not purchasing said dongle, which is now being treated as a system requirement on the pro-Kotick forums. All this in a game that many would prefer to play single player anyway!

This has the potential to sour a lot of casual gamers on the idea of always online DRM.

 

[Jasede]

Fuck 'em.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Holy fuck. I was just thinking what it would take for me to even consider purchasing D3 (offline mode, security, balance/RPG patches and probably 1-3 expansion packs in a nice-price bundle). So I looked on amazon.de to what the 60$ price tag was translated in €.
It's 83 fucking €. For the normal non-CE version. The game gets an average user score of 2,5/5.
And still they're nearly sold out. http://www.amazon.de/Blizzard-Diabl...5LNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337973047&sr=8-1

I'll go kill myself. There's obviously no sentient life left on this planet.

Huh? Price on Amazon.de is 49 Euro. Still wouldn't buy this piece of shit.

 

[Shannow]

And it was 83€ before they sold out. Now they obviously get the next batch in in June. That batch will go for 49€ (until it nears sold-out status again).
That means there were people willing to pay 83€ (while amazon was already pointing out at that time that other vendors sell for 49€). I stand by everything I said. And don't expect me to do your thinking for you next time.