Will Diablo III's "Real Money Auction House" Put An End To Gold Farmers?

Blizzard has been busy pushing hotfixes onto their on-and-off broken auction house system, in an effort to quell the rage of the unhappy Diablo III community. After many reports of Diablo III's Gold Auction House's connectivity problems, bugs and glitches, the Real Money Auction House integration has been pushed back to June 12th, only a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Diablo 3 launch, which should have been one of Blizzard's greatest moments, has turned out to be something of a mess. The controversial decision to make the game online-only, even for single-player, led to a massive server overload immediately after release, locking untold numbers of players out from playing what will still probably be ...

By Kevin Quon:Signs and omens eerily abound. For a game that revolves around the theme of premonition and impending doom, the long anticipated Diablo III had apparently more than one scary surprise up its sleeve. Unfortunately for shareholders, these aforementioned omens had nothing to do with the game's virtual world. Instead, they exist in the concept of countless gamers who were unable to even log into the game on its first day of operation.

This weekend, a few hundred thousand of Blizzard?s most devoted fans tried their luck at playing the Diablo 3 beta, which had been opened up to all for one weekend only ahead of the game?s May 15th release. Blizzard touted the event as a ?stress test??? meant to simulate launch conditions of a large amount ...