Not quite sure what is taking Blizzard so long to fix the issue, but it kinda seems like they are ok with trading just being shut off for tonight and longer. It makes me kinda not want to play the game until they turn trading back on.
They have to identify the dupe and then decide how to proceeed. Hopefully a massive ban wave. Gotta nip this is the bud early and send a clear message.
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Yeah dupers suck, but just weird there is no other way, and also weird they have to spend this much time preventing it and fixing it. It’s ruining the experience for all of us who just want to trade actual items for in-game gold.
I was about to buy a BIS staff and they shut trading off. It’s lame. Guess I’ll just go play Cyberpunk until they turn trading back on.
They do this every season for like a week or so
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I do hope they hit hard with the ban hammer. Annoying to have trade shut down because of some fools out there
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I was wondering why nobody was buying anything I was listing. First couple weeks are usually hot for sales. I usually sell quite a bit of stuff but it makes sense if most the traders on dtrade were duping. They were buying up all the 3 and 4 affix stuff and not my 1 and 2 GA stuff.
Why is it weird? It’s not like there an “turn off dupps” button. They have to identify how it’s happening and then how to prevent it with minimal impact to the rest of the game. It can be time consuming work.
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TBH just stop reporting dupers. Id rather have my trading back then have to wait. So just stop reporting dupers. This is so dumb. I want my trade back.
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I am asking my crystal ball. one min plz.
Give back a ruined trade experience?
Dont report dupers?
ARe you a duper???
Nope but duping didnt ruin my experience. Not being able to trade is doing more harm for me than good.
Most likely tomorrow
I presume gear is stored as a seed and type, and generated on load, or it could be stored as a fully generated item. With seed and type, they’d need to invent new types for all gear updates. This would facilitate the legacy icon. Either way duping is possible unless gear is instanced in the database rather than being a product of data in an inventory slot, i.e. an item has a many to one relationship with the owner and/or a unique identifier. The only way to duplicate with an identifier is to have a mechanism to create those identifiers which seems extremely unlikely.
Why would that be weird? You do realize some problems might take longer than others to fix, right? I would think that is obvious…I guess not.
Oh you cant swipe your CC now to buy mats or items ??
I think what is “weird” is how duping is a serious issue for these multi-player games, and duping has apparently affected Blizzard before, so they ought to have a close to assured mechanism to avoid it.
It is safe to assume they chose a less than ideal solution for efficiently, likely the item is stored as a data value as opposed to a data reference.
It’s not just preventing the dupe and fixing it… It’s also identifying the people who were using the it and removing the banned items. That’s exactly the reason for shutting down trade… If they just fixed it and then re-opened trade… the market would still potentially be flooded with items duped in the interim…
That’s just not how any of this works… Duping has cropped up in just about every game every. You’re dealing with complicated code bases and you’ve got millions of people working constantly to find ways to break that code. Inevitably they’re going to succeed eventually. It’s the same reason botting also persists in every online game… As soon as you kill one method they find another one…