August 13, 2012
Site reader Javazon points us to this interesting thread on B.net that links to numerous player profiles from the Asian realm, all of them Wizards, all of them using a fantastically-good off-hand Orb with the exact same name and stats. It seems like sure evidence of duping (or else a major error in the game’s random name/stat generation engine), and you can view the identical item equipped in the character profiles below:
June 12, 2012
News has hit, and while I’ve known about this news for a while, I wanted to read more on what was going on before I posted it as legitimate news. I’m still not 100% convinced, as I’ve not seen any video proof, but people “swear” by it on reddit and the official forums alike. However, people “swore” that it wasn’t their fault they got hacked.
June 11, 2012
With recent reports and interviews regarding different methods of duping and the bot market, Blizzard has formally addressed concerns and have released an official statement on the subject. The promise is that bans will be out… “soon(tm).”
We posted news yesterday about some duping methods that were working on the Asian server (but apparently not the US/EU servers). Today a Blizzard CM in Taiwan has posted an update that should be titled, “This is why you can’t have nice things.”