Item modding has begun, Or major glitch?

[Cludo]

So i logged onto D3 today and saw somebody link a purple weapon in General chat, followed by a flood of "WTF!" heres the item when i clicked on it.



I'm not sure if this is legit, or what but damn!
Anyone seen anything like this?

[BoomChickn]

I think that was haxed.

Or a blizz employee managed to let one out by mistake.

Also, thats not purple, its pink.

WHIMSYSHIRE!

[Video Games]

Online only they said. It'll stop the hacks they said.

[dignaidgnaiud]

Hmmm well barbs using that shouldnt have a problem

[Dhrizzle]

Why does the item window have a different name to the chat-link?

[Iskra22]

You can link all sorts of crazy shit in chat that doesn't exist in the actual game. I had people linking Thunderfury in the correct color and all in chat. If you know the code that goes into a link you can make whatever link you want. You can do the same in WoW to a certain degree too.

[Vongimi]

Clearly shopped Different name even in the chat log than the item itself. Or using a text command to link something that doesn't actually exist in game.

[Maelstrom51]

Diablo III is unhackable and has no vulnerabilities. Everyone knows this, and you're just a noob fearmonger if you think otherwise!

[Lora]

Diablo III is unhackable and has no vulnerabilities. Everyone knows this, and you're just a noob fearmonger if you think otherwise!

Because Blizzard is unhackable like the PSN and US FBI, right? Don't be naive.

[Maelstrom51]

Because Blizzard is unhackable like the PSN and US FBI, right? Don't be naive.

Do I really need to add sarcasm tags?

[Cludo]

This isn't shopped, i'm aware its a different name in the chat.

[Funt Case]

Because Blizzard is unhackable like the PSN and US FBI, right? Don't be naive.

Quite sure you just quoted a guy being blatantly sarcastic ;p

[Lyriok]

Woudn't be surprised, Apparantly they already have farming/level bots near completion too.

[Mythricia]

Good thing people instantly jump on the "lol online only unhackable /sarcasm" boat without understanding what the screenshot means. Just like in WoW, you can "forge" item links to be, and contain, practically anything you want. That doesn't mean the item exists, or can exist. It's just a link, and a tooltip - the item doesn't exist, and that's why you aren't seeing a screenshot of the item - you're seeing a screenshot of a tooltip, and a link.

Woudn't be surprised, Apparantly they already have farming/level bots near completion too.

That's because modern bots don't "hack" anything - they play the game by emulating key presses and mouse clicks and movements. You can't prevent that unless you demand a webcamera showing an actual person playing the game before allowing anyone to log into your game. Which could be faked as well, alas, it's not really possible to stop - just temporarily suspended until the bot programmers come up with something clever(er). It's the software equivalent of having an actual robot sitting in your chair playing. A PC is a sophisticated machine, and runs a sophisticated suit of software, so it's near impossible to prevent this type of bots from functioning, since Blizzard has no control over the users software, nor should they have. That's why consoles suffer less cheating - it's a closed system that the console manufacturer has full technical and legal control over, so they can more easily prevent and solve cheating issues...


Holy shit people really are quick to bash if given the slightest opportunity even though they know nothing about what they're speaking of. It's mind blowing.

[Uennie]

Online only they said. It'll stop the hacks they said.

It'll stop the pirating, they never guaranteed it would stop the hacking. It would be stupid of any company to claim they're unhackable. Even Apple can't completely claim this because they've actually hired someone who successfully hacked them so that they could repair the hole. No technology is invulnerable - not yet - and hopefully not ever.

[Maelstrom51]

Woudn't be surprised, Apparantly they already have farming/level bots near completion too.

Near completion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_N3RBVfuyY

Looks like there's already pretty damn advanced bots and maphacks.

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It'll stop the pirating, they never guaranteed it would stop the hacking. It would be stupid of any company to claim they're unhackable. Even Apple can't completely claim this because they've actually hired someone who successfully hacked them so that they could repair the hole. No technology is invulnerable - not yet - and hopefully not ever.

Doesn't stop pirating either. Hence why there's emulated diablo 3 servers already.

[Uennie]

Near completion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_N3RBVfuyY

Looks like there's already pretty damn advanced bots and maphacks.

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Doesn't stop pirating either. Hence why there's emulated diablo 3 servers already.

That's what they said they wanted to do with being online - and it actually has stopped it to a certain degree. You can't prevent the pirating of anything 100%, same with hacking. My point stands.

[Maelstrom51]

That's what they said they wanted to do with being online - and it actually has stopped it to a certain degree. You can't prevent the pirating of anything 100%, same with hacking. My point stands.

Your point is that online only stops pirating. In fact, it doesn't.

Step 1: Download client for free.
Step 2: Connect to non-blizzard server.

Grats, you technically just pirated Diablo III!

[Mythricia]

A bot is not a hack. People should try to understand the difference.

A hack would imply hacking something, accessing Blizzards servers somehow, intercepting the communication to the server, etc, whatever, but that's not the case. A bot is, as the word implies, a ro(bot). A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically. And that, does not require hacking. It's just a program, like any other, running on in this case a PC, interpreting what it sees and reacting accordingly. This has nothing to do with Diablo, Battle.net, or Blizzard - and neither of the 3 can do anything about it in the long run. They can make Diablo "spot" or detect a certain bot, but then the bot programmers just change the bot so that it's slightly different, and then Diablo is blind to its existance again, and the whole dance repeats itself. That's how shit works. That's how it works in all games where bots exist.

And saying that connecting to non-blizzard servers is pirating is stupid, sure enjoy playing a game that has no connection to the game that everybody else is playing. If you could acquire Diablo 3 for free and successfully play on Blizzard servers, then that would be pirating. The actual client itself is freely available to anyone, perfectly legally. It's the battle.net account and service you pay for. The client is free. How do you pirate something that's freely available? Blizzard don't care that you can connect to private servers... that'll always happen, and they know it, hence Battle.net. Truth is nobody wants to play on shitty private servers - and the few who do (relative to the amount of people who don't) have no effect on anybody else, nor do they have any effect on Blizzard economically.

[Chrysia]

Your point is that online only stops pirating. In fact, it doesn't.

Step 1: Download client for free.
Step 2: Connect to non-blizzard server.

Grats, you technically just pirated Diablo III!

Non-Blizzard servers that, at current, have a fraction of the modifiers live servers do, glitch, and generally suck, just like WoW private servers.