Some players apparently tried to gain an advantage in Diablo Immortal. For less money than actually intended, they supplied themselves with paid currency. Now it’s time for reckoning.
Currently, threads are emerging on reddit, reporting how players seem to be struggling with high debts:
- According to reports from players on reddit and in the forum, affected individuals have tried to buy Eternal Orbs, a premium currency in Diablo Immortal, cheaply from third-party providers.
- Such offers are often found as spam in the chat channels of Diablo Immortal and other games.
- The orbs are used for purchasing legendary emblems or Platinum.
- Buyers seem to acquire better equipment for less money, as they can sometimes provide themselves faster with strong legendary gems.
According to parts of the community, it should be self-evident that premium content, which costs real money, cannot simply be obtained cheaper. After all, Blizzard wants to earn money. Consequently, the buyers are treated like fraudsters and receive penalties.
How exactly the legendary gems work is explained in the video:
What happens now to the players? Players who have wrongfully purchased Eternal Orbs cheaply are currently being subjected to a kind of “soft ban” according to reports. They can no longer join groups.
Parts of the community consider this punishment too mild, as they could still participate in PvP with their ill-gotten gear. However, one user explains on reddit: “Calm down. They can no longer join groups. Give it a few days, then they will be ‘undergeared’ for battlegrounds.”
Since you need a group to farm set pieces, such accounts would no longer have access to new equipment. There are even reports that some are now trying to sell their accounts – allegedly before they get banned themselves (via reddit).
The penalties go beyond those imposed by Blizzard. As is currently being discussed in one of the largest threads on reddit regarding Diablo Immortal, there are said to have been chargebacks on credit cards. Affected players would thus have to return up to 600,000 orbs. Depending on the offer, this amounts to about 1,000 Euros or more.
Third-party providers use fraud schemes – Blizzard has no “cheaper” offers
Where do the debts come from? As the YouTuber and expert DM: Diablo Immortal explains in his video, the cheaper prices from third-party providers are only possible due to fraud.
The offers usually work in such a way that the providers log in with the buyers’ data and purchase Eternal Orbs for them via their own payment options. They claim that the better price results from more favorable conditions in their country, but according to DM, they actually only use stolen credit card information.
When the fraud is uncovered, the victims request their money back, which is usually easy to do – after all, it is fraud. The “buyers,” that is, those whose account the orbs were purchased on, end up in debt. After all, the money for the content credited to their account was demanded back.
Similar fraud schemes often occur in MMOs. As MVP MissCheetah explains in the official forum, this even harms corporations like Blizzard – contrary to some users’ opinions that the providers would earn anyway.
The only ones who profit from this are the scammers. In general, it is better never to trust third-party providers and especially never to share your account details. If you want to improve, you should therefore refrain from such offers and rely on better means:
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