Diablo III's Real Money Auction House Delayed Once Again

Reports that Diablo 3 user accounts have been hacked and items and gold stolen from players leads to questions about Blizzard's security system and the real money auction house set up for in-game transactions.

ByChristopher Gonsalves:Activision Blizzard (ATVI) will deliver its Q3 earnings results on Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, after the bell rings. Best known for blockbuster hits like World of Warcraft and StarCraft, Activision Blizzard has beaten expectations 5 quarters in a row.

Eurogamer recently reported that multiple Diablo 3 accounts had been hacked and stripped of gold and items - a troubling development with the real money auction house on its way soon. Soon after the reports, rumors started swirling around that hackers had managed to bypass Blizzard's authenticator service and compromise Battle.net. Blizzard says that the ...

Blizzard's decision to make Diablo 3 online-only, even for single-player, hasn't exactly gone smoothly. It's gone so no smoothly that the company is being investigated by the Korean government, and has yet to get a handle on its Real Money Auction House over a month after release. Now, the news that players who buy a ...

When Blizzard first announced that Diablo 3 would be online-only, it had a lot of good reasons. Preventing cheating was critical with the real-money auction house. Characters needed to be able to jump between online and offline seamlessly. And, naturally, to prevent piracy. Like all companies that use an online only format - it needs ...

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It?s an experiment that could change gaming forever. Blizzard has just attempted the equivalent of drug legalization in the MMO market. For years, illegal black market sellers have been hawking virtual gear for real life money to great success. There was little point attempting to combat such practices, as little or nothing could be done ...

Blizzard can add the Korean Fair Trade Commission to the list of people who were less than pleased about the way it handled the Diablo 3 launch. The FTC raided the game company's Seoul office on Monday following reports that it denied refunds to eligible gamers, reports the Korea Times. "We have received many complaints ...