Patch Notes

[Merusk]

Wow, WTF.

Botters/ Goldspammers/ AH Bots get banned, buy a new account immediately and begin botting/ spamming within the minute it takes to buy it on the next battle.net account in their arsenal of free-email accounts.   It's their (again, poorly executed) attempt to limit that.

Their reactions are almost as if they've never done this before.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Well this has nothing to do with the trial edition. What they are saying is that when you drop $60 for the full edition you may need to wait up to 72 hours for it to be authorized....

[Malakili]

Well this has nothing to do with the trial edition. What they are saying is that when you drop $60 for the full edition you may need to wait up to 72 hours for it to be authorized....

That seems pretty rough.  Hell, if I bought a new game I couldn't play as soon as I got it installed, I'd be pretty damn pissed.  Especially bad for casual people who pick up the game only to wonder why they are capped out after the first hour of play and don't quite understand the reasoning behind what is doing on.

[Miasma]

Holy hell that is insane.  It also explains all the bugs people were having where they logged on to find out they and their minions had been rolled back to level 13.  I guess they didn't think about people who had already recently bought the game and levelled past 13...

[apocrypha]

Had a completely free day today.. perfect for playing Diablo 3 with a nice, fresh new patch. Except I found I had no desire whatsoever to do so.

Oh well. I got 200 hours out of it and I learned that Blizzard are no longer an automatic-purchase company for me. I think I got my money's worth.

[Paelos]

Holy hell that is insane.  It also explains all the bugs people were having where they logged on to find out they and their minions had been rolled back to level 13.  I guess they didn't think about people who had already recently bought the game and levelled past 13...

No, it's not just insane. It's completely unjustifiably criminal. If you purchase a product you are entitled to all portions of the product you purchased. Subjecting paying customers to these restrictions is beyond defensible in my book. That's ridiculous. I'm furious at them for this decision and I've already started my email onslaught.

I've had enough of the stupid decisions to prevent botting and this one broke my back. This is big business protectionist bullshit that has no place in gaming, and Blizzard should be ashamed for treating their customers like that.

[Ironwood]

What have you done with the Paelos that's been posting for weeks and can I see the body ?

Good Show.

[Xanthippe]

The General Forum is burning up. Posts are being deleted as fast as they are being put up.

[Shatter]

 

[Paelos]

What have you done with the Paelos that's been posting for weeks and can I see the body ?

Good Show.

I'm a fan to a point. But with Blizzard it's about making games fun for your customers. If you fail at that, I will roast you.

[Ironwood]

They failed from day one with this shite.

It just took the latest bit of value destruction for you to see it.  They Do Not Give a Fuck about customers.  This is entirely the short-term gain mindset that rules our economic world at the moment.  Since Starcraft II, it's been all Activision, all the time.  It's just taken a while for it to filter through.

Ahem.

[Paelos]

Perhaps. I don't hate the game, though, and I do see a lot of potential there beyond just the normal kneejerk reactions you get on the official forums about anything.

However, my patience has worn thin, and the idea of holding paying customers hostage is unbelievable to me.

[Mrbloodworth]

QFT.

[Amaron]

Well this has nothing to do with the trial edition. What they are saying is that when you drop $60 for the full edition you may need to wait up to 72 hours for it to be authorized....

I can't really blame them for that.   The ease with which people are allowed to get away with credit card fraud is kind of disgusting.

[Outlawedprod]

BTW for those of you who like to break pots even though they drop junk now.  Breaking them causes durability loss.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5888889794?page=58#1154

[disKret]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889089807

Is the wording poor or does this mean if you buy the full game you are restricted to the starter version for 72 hours after purchase?

Its not poor wording. Huge wtf. You are paying for full product and playing in demo?

[Xanthippe]

Well this has nothing to do with the trial edition. What they are saying is that when you drop $60 for the full edition you may need to wait up to 72 hours for it to be authorized....

I can't really blame them for that.   The ease with which people are allowed to get away with credit card fraud is kind of disgusting.

I'm trying to figure out what goldfarmers are doing with digital versions and credit cards.

Are they ordering then cancelling, using stolen cards, or what?

[Rokal]

BTW for those of you who like to break pots even though they drop junk now.  Breaking them causes durability loss.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5888889794?page=58#1154

[Lantyssa]

Are they ordering then cancelling, using stolen cards, or what?

Using stolen card numbers.  It's something that plagues the MMO industry.

I don't know why they wouldn't just wait three days then use the account for whatever.  It might catch a few, but most people aren't going to notice only three days later.

[kildorn]

A 72 hour waiting period would only make sense if they were using it to contact the buyer via their bank or some shit. It does nothing to actually halt fraud on it's own. The only real way to combat the fraud would be to ramp up support staff and monitoring and try to make it a market where you'd never want to risk buying (punish the buyer as much as the seller), because the seller's barrier of entry is so low as to not exist.

[Outlawedprod]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889189098?page=1

So I didn't tell my wife, but I quit my job last week to farm and sell on the RMAH.  Without explicitly stating how much I was making a day - we would have lived VERY comfortably.  

However, with the introduction of this new patch I will not be able to  farm as fast as I used to due to my damage dropping dramatically.  Not only that, but if I do fight things that can be sold - the prices are dramatically decreasing because the itemization is really poor right now.  Nobody wants to buy on the RMAH right now.

I will not be able to get my job back and I will not be able to live off the RMAH anymore...  Blizzard please fix your game or my life is ruined.  My wife will probably leave me.

[Rasix]

 

[Paelos]

I don't care what the rationale is. If your system is so fucked up that you can't tell the good from the bad without a 72 hour period, stop selling that way. Otherwise, you're just fucking up your own customers.

I can't imagine Steam putting a 72 hour limit your downloads. It's madness.

[Outlawedprod]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889189098?page=3#55

Ok guys, just wanted to update everyone.

I was pumping myself up to break the news to my wife after dinner.  I really wanted to do it.  But over dinner she told me that her Father is in critical condition.  This may sound weird and scumbaggy, but her father is loaded and she is the only heir.  So we won't be hurting financially.

I think what I will do is wait for this whole father thing to blow over before telling her because she is already very devastated.  I'm just going to leave early each morning and pretend to go to work.  I'll probably just hang out at a Starbucks and use their internet connection to play for a few hours before going back home.

This has been a very terrible week for my wife and myself.

[Malakili]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889189098?page=3#55

Ok guys, just wanted to update everyone.

I was pumping myself up to break the news to my wife after dinner.  I really wanted to do it.  But over dinner she told me that her Father is in critical condition.  This may sound weird and scumbaggy, but her father is loaded and she is the only heir.  So we won't be hurting financially.

I think what I will do is wait for this whole father thing to blow over before telling her because she is already very devastated.  I'm just going to leave early each morning and pretend to go to work.  I'll probably just hang out at a Starbucks and use their internet connection to play for a few hours before going back home.

This has been a very terrible week for my wife and myself.

Obvious troll is obvious.

[apocrypha]

So is this supposed drop in item prices only affecting the RMAH then? Because after a friend and I hit the same old Act II wall last night we went and had a look on the AH to try and gear up a bit and could find almost nothing worth the 10's of millions of gold for the minor upgrades. It felt like our only options were to grind Act I for 100's of hours to get some better gear or to spend real cash - neither of which are going to happen.

Oh and the AH "interface improvements" we were promised are just grouping of the various categories of item property such that you now can't just find a stat alphabetically. Well done Blizzard, you managed to make the AH UI worse! 

[Setanta]

List of exploits that remain after patch 1.03: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889888966

 

[Lantyssa]

So is this supposed drop in item prices only affecting the RMAH then?

The Gold AH will only increase in price.  People either buying gold or farming it will always drive prices up.

[Xanthippe]

So is this supposed drop in item prices only affecting the RMAH then?

The Gold AH will only increase in price.  People either buying gold or farming it will always drive prices up.

Only if the pool of items doesn't increase. The supply continues to increase because they are never destroyed.

I predict prices will fall because people will quit before farming 10s of millions of gold. When they do farm, they will find items which drives the supply higher.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Yeah I don't see how item values can continue to rise when there are literally thousands more introduced each day.

[Slayerik]

Another reason I love hardcore, the AH is reasonable because people die and lose their uber equip. And no RMAH.

[Lantyssa]

"Auction House trash" will continue to accumulate.  As people still have difficulty getting "good" items to drop, those will remain high in price.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

But what will be considered 'good' will also change, based on increased supply of items - an item that was awesome on the second day of the game is now generally considered mediocre, and priced accordingly. It's just a matter of the ratios involved, and how gold inflation interacts with item inflation.

[calapine]

Diablo III Patch v.1.0.3.10235

Classes
Witch Doctor
Bug Fixes
Zombie Charger
Skill Rune – Zombie Bears
Fixed a bug where Zombie Bears were unable to attack targets on slopes
Zombie Bears should no longer become stuck on objects with which they shouldn't have collision
 

Items
General
Equipped items will now take "wear-and-tear" durability damage at half the previous rate
Please note that durability loss as the result of normal combat is different from the 10% durability loss characters will incur when they die. Equipped items have always suffered durability loss while fighting, and we are simply slowing the rate at which the loss occurs.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that was causing Unique monsters to not drop the appropriate amount of loot when slain
Fixed a bug with linking items with 3 gem sockets
It is no longer possible to create fake achievement links
 

Bug Fixes
General
Fixed a bug that was causing the "Switch Hero" button to occasionally disappear after leaving a game while in town
Fixed several gold and leveling exploits
Fixed several game and service crashes (for Mac and PC)

Re underlined part: Blizzard should have done that in the same patch they increased repair cost. Now they are in damage control mode and have to placate players.

[Paelos]

Fixed a bug that was causing Unique monsters to not drop the appropriate amount of loot when slain


That's...ominous.