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Diablo 4players have seemingly discovered the weapon that caused Blizzard to quickly disable in-game trading entirely due to rapidly inflating prices. Considering that Blizzard has takenDiablo 4into the live service sector, the popular action RPG is constantly evolving through updates, hot fixes, and the recent arrival of Season of the Malignant content. However, not every change that has been made has sat well with the community, with the bigSeason 1Diablo 4updatecausing Blizzard to even backtrack some of the changes.
On top of the changes, some things don’t always go to plan as glitches and bugs have found their way into the experience. Some of these issues have benefited the players such as aninfinite loot glitch that gaveDiablo 4playersaccess to all sorts of good weapons and gear. Naturally, Blizzard moves kick when issues arise that it deems a thread to overall game stability and recently, that included the in-game trading feature which saw one particular item threaten to destabilize the entireDiablo 4economy.
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Earlier this week,Blizzard suspended in-game trading after a duplication glitchcaused players to spend incredible amounts of gold on items, threatening to destabilize the entireDiablo 4economy. At the time, it wasn’t clear what specifically caused the tipping point, but after a little bit of digging, it seems the weapon has been discovered. In a new video from Jeppe-O, the entire Discord exchange regarding an ancestral rare crossbow called the Cut Symbol was detailed with time stamps and bid amounts. Bids came in quickly and furiously due to the fact that Cut Symbol was 1% off of a highly sought after triple max roll and highly sought after.
Shockingly, bids escalated quickly into the billions and got more and more outrageous as though the gold being offered was nothing to any of these players. The numbers inflated so much and so quickly that manyDiablo 4players began wondering how people could even pay out the required gold considering that each character has a cap of 9,999,999,999 pieces. Ultimately, the final crossbow bid came in at 30 billion gold pieces to a user named Poor Guy, who offered “as much as the seller wanted” before getting to 30 billion, ultimately replacing his own ancestral crossbow called Lord’s Ballista.
While it isn’t officially confirmed that this was the weapon to serve as the “final straw” in bringing down the entire in-game trading system, it is a big reason why Blizzard took action to suspendDiablo 4’s in-game trading. This isn’t the first time that theDiablo economy has been threatened, as the third game in the series also faced problems with an Auction House and player set prices, ultimately leading to the entire mechanic getting shelved.
Diablo 4is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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