Summary
A recent glitch inDiablo 4has caused waves amongst the community asBlizzard has had to step in to prevent the game’s economy from falling apart. While the fourth mainline entry in the action RPG franchise has had its fair deal of bugs and glitches, it’s ultimately regarded as a success amongst the player base, many of whom were worried about it following the dismal reception ofDiablo: Immortal. Unfortunately, some problems are bigger than others and require drastic measures before they spread too far.
Posting on theDiablo 4forums,Blizzardannounced thatit’s disabling trading inDiablo 4as the studio investigates a major bug causing havoc with the system.
The problem in question, as explained by userMosaic78on Reddit, isa “massive” dupe glitch that allows players to create copies of “just about anything and everything,“an issue that could flood the game with top-tier equipment much too quickly. Without disclosing the exact nature of the glitch, it revolves around spamming the option to open and close one’s stash when leaving a group to duplicate the contents.
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Since Blizzard is currentlygearing up to releaseVessel of Hatred,Diablo 4’s first major expansion pack,preventing major duplication bugs is a pressing issue. Slated to drop on October 8,players having the ability to farm and replicate their best items would completely unbalance the DLC, which is expected to introduce some ofDiablo 4’s most challenging quests yet. Given the sheer amount of content in the game, it also stands to reason that a highly specific glitch like this would slip past the developers,
This isn’t the first time Blizzard has had to disableDiablo 4’s trading:Several of the game’s earlier seasons also experienced duplication glitches, prompting swift responses from the studio. The very nature of the game, that being to grow progressively stronger, encourages those with the necessary knowledge to go out of their way to uncover exploits to make their power curve even more significant. Players can rest assured that trading will likely be disabled again at some point because of another duplication error.
Aside from the aforementioned exploit,Diablo 4’s fifth season hasn’t got off to a great start.The content update unfortunately introduced myriad new bugs to the game,breaking several popular buildsand forcing players to rerun challenging dungeons due to somechests not working as they should. One can only hopeVessel of Hatredisn’t plaguedby such issues when it eventually arrives.
