In Diablo 4, Blizzard had to pull the emergency brake and temporarily suspend player trading. Trading has only been possible again for a few hours. The trigger for the trading ban was an auction for a crossbow that broke all dimensions. The amounts that were bid could only be explained by a ‘gold exploit.’
When did Blizzard intervene?
- On the night of August 14, Blizzard disabled trading in Diablo 4 between players. Players could no longer exchange items. It was stated that the feature would remain ‘disabled until further notice.’
- This morning, on August 16, around 7:00 AM, Blizzard then gave the all-clear: Trading is possible again (via twitter).
- Blizzard had to block trading because players had found an exploit that allowed them to duplicate gold.
Auction for crossbow runs completely out of control
How did it become apparent? The video “The 30 billion gold crossbow that turned off trading in Diablo 4” shows an auction via Discord:
- A user offers the rare crossbow “Cut Symbol” on Discord, with an item power of 799 and 2 empty sockets. The seller says the crossbow is only 1% below a ‘Triple Max Roll,’ so nearly perfect.
- He set the minimum bid at 150 million gold.
The gold cap of 10 billion was reached after 19 minutes
This is how the auction went: Within just a few minutes, the highest bid is already at 4.5 billion gold.
When it exceeded 10 billion gold, the actual gold cap in Diablo 4, there was then a discussion about how so much money can even be transferred – “After all, we are a group,” comes the answer. Money plays no role anyway. They would then come with “multiple gold bearers” to hand over the gold.
It is also striking that the bids soar to completely absurd heights because several super-rich players are bidding high and want the crossbow at all costs.
The losing bidder drops out about half an hour after the auction starts at 30 billion, but not because he no longer has gold, but because he can only lead 2 friends whom he trusts enough to carry that much money.
At this point, it became clear that something must be wrong with the economy in Diablo 4 if gold seems to be so readily available that it is simply worthless.
If the maximum bid does not depend on the amount of gold available, but rather on how many people you have whom you can trust with such sums, then something is surely very rotten.
The crossbow was seen in the community as a sign of how broken the economy in Diablo 4 is.
More on the topic:
Blizzard disables trading in Diablo 4 due to something that already destroyed Diablo 2
