EPT5-7-2013 Diablo's 1929 - Page 7
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Purpose88
Germany137 Posts
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JerKy
Korea (South)3013 Posts
On May 11 2013 11:31 JerKy wrote: I have a friend who made ~2bill from this (relatively not that much) he got an email saying the gold had been successfully rolled back, and that all his items were now all account-bound However, he muled his gold to a second account, and that gold hasn't been taken back I don't know if people who kept the gold on their account actually had their gold taken away, but if you muled your money to somewhere, you prob still have it :O To follow up on this, my friend got this email: + Show Spoiler + Greetings, The Diablo III license associated with this email address was recently locked to allow us to investigate potential in-game economy abuse. After thorough review, we determined that this license was involved with the abuse in question. However, as a show of good faith, we will unlock this account and allow this license to continue to accessDiablo III. In order to address the abuse, we have performed a rollback for the license, and all items are now account-bound and cannot be traded. For more information on Diablo III rollbacks, see the Account Rollback section of our support article: https://battle.net/support/article/5400056. Regards, Blizzard Entertainment And he says he's maintained the gold he muled off, and knows others who've also kept their gold :O Checking the AH last night... I don't know what to do. Gold is so worthless now and everything costs 2b  | ||
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iTzSnypah
United States1738 Posts
On May 12 2013 10:30 JerKy wrote: To follow up on this, my friend got this email: + Show Spoiler + Greetings, The Diablo III license associated with this email address was recently locked to allow us to investigate potential in-game economy abuse. After thorough review, we determined that this license was involved with the abuse in question. However, as a show of good faith, we will unlock this account and allow this license to continue to accessDiablo III. In order to address the abuse, we have performed a rollback for the license, and all items are now account-bound and cannot be traded. For more information on Diablo III rollbacks, see the Account Rollback section of our support article: https://battle.net/support/article/5400056. Regards, Blizzard Entertainment And he says he's maintained the gold he muled off, and knows others who've also kept their gold :O Checking the AH last night... I don't know what to do. Gold is so worthless now and everything costs 2b Everything is expensive right now because people don't know what to price their items as there was no references when the AH reopened. Just wait a few days and prices will be back to normal. AKA people are panicking atm about what their items are worth. | ||
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Keirathi
United States4679 Posts
On May 12 2013 08:24 Simberto wrote: I did a few calculations: If a gold piece is as large as 1 euro cent, it would weigh ~5g, as gold is roughly double as dense as iron or copper, which is what those coins are made of. Thus, if you own 1b gold pieces, that would weigh 50000000000g, or 5000 tons. This are ~250 m³ of gold, or a 5m*5m*10m brick made of pure gold. This made me smile. Following up, 1 ounce of pure gold is worth ~$1600 USD. (I didn't go look it up, but last I heard it was somewhere around that.) 5000 tons of gold = ~1.763b ounces of gold. Which would have a value of a bit over $2.8 trillion USD. | ||
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kafkaesque
Germany2006 Posts
This is so funny, sometimes I wish we had a like-function at TL. | ||
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Nekovivie
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On May 12 2013 15:47 Keirathi wrote: This made me smile. Following up, 1 ounce of pure gold is worth ~$1600 USD. (I didn't go look it up, but last I heard it was somewhere around that.) 5000 tons of gold = ~1.763b ounces of gold. Which would have a value of a bit over $2.8 trillion USD. I doubt the gold coins are "pure" gold, probably an alloy. Pure gold is malleable which wouldn't really work for coins  | ||
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Serek
United Kingdom459 Posts
On May 13 2013 17:39 Nekovivie wrote: I doubt the gold coins are "pure" gold, probably an alloy. Pure gold is malleable which wouldn't really work for coins Further to this, €0.01 coins are made of steel with a copper plating, otherwise the metal in the coin would be worth more than its face value. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11825 Posts
For example, looking up a random gold coin on Wikipedia, we get something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krugerrand Which has 22 karat gold in it, meaning about 91.7%. It is also 6 times as a large as the one i randomly decided on. I am in no way knowledgeable of gold coins or anything, but that 22 Karat number seems to be used on other coins i found roughly searching on wikipedia, too. There are probably a lot of other numbers, but i'd say this is as good as any as an estimate. So basically, if your assumptions are so rough there is really no reason to go into the finer details, the whole idea was to come up with a very rough idea of how much 1 billion gold coins would actually be. | ||
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Burrfoot
United States1176 Posts
On May 08 2013 21:19 Burrfoot wrote: Is not so much that the market was ruined, its that so much gold was created and transferred to non-duper that played the market when the item AND gem market went crazy. Folks could sell any half decent item worth 100m last week for 2b yesterday. For example Legit player with 50m gold sees gem prices skyrocket to 150m He sells the few radiants he has and buys 50m of flawless gems to make 3 radiants (takes a few minutes to automake) They instantly sell for 150m/ea He goes wow! And repeats until AH goes down and he has billions. Logs on today with no ban ^ this may or may not have been me And.. this story has a happy ending. The roughly 9b I made was sold for ~$1600 USD :-D I was online the moment the AH went back up and was able to post it all for $0.25/m, and it sold pretty fast. I was worried the stories of folks banned for flipping gems would delay the sales, but nope. 9x + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/SsI1luk.png) 1929, this event was not! :-D | ||
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Bibbit
Canada5377 Posts
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Gescom
Canada3511 Posts
On May 19 2013 05:49 Burrfoot wrote: And.. this story has a happy ending. The roughly 9b I made was sold for ~$1600 USD :-D I was online the moment the AH went back up and was able to post it all for $0.25/m, and it sold pretty fast. I was worried the stories of folks banned for flipping gems would delay the sales, but nope. 9x + Show Spoiler + 1929, this event was not! :-D You profited, but 9 people got raped buying $1b for $250 when in reality 1b is worth like 1/10 of that. | ||
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Domus
510 Posts
On May 19 2013 08:39 Gescom wrote: You profited, but 9 people got raped buying $1b for $250 when in reality 1b is worth like 1/10 of that. yes, we should feel bad/sad for the people who can afford to spend 250 dollars on virtual goods in a game... | ||
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
On May 14 2013 22:59 Serek wrote: Further to this, €0.01 coins are made of steel with a copper plating, otherwise the metal in the coin would be worth more than its face value. The process to create them + materials costs mor than it's face value, lots of money has been burn to create those coins, thats why they want to remove 0,01 and 0,02 coins now | ||
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
On May 19 2013 05:49 Burrfoot wrote: And.. this story has a happy ending. The roughly 9b I made was sold for ~$1600 USD :-D I was online the moment the AH went back up and was able to post it all for $0.25/m, and it sold pretty fast. I was worried the stories of folks banned for flipping gems would delay the sales, but nope. 9x + Show Spoiler + 1929, this event was not! :-D Good job burr, glad this game finally paid itself off for you. What country are you from? | ||
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On May 19 2013 12:38 emythrel wrote: that bbc link is about WoW... not D3 Diab-woe Activision Blizzard has also hit money worries of a different kind this week. An update to Diablo III on Monday contained several key updates - but one embarrassing bug. Gamers quickly discovered that by cancelling "gold" auctions in the game, they could freely duplicate the in-game currency - with one user building up a reported 371 trillion gold using this method. Developer Blizzard has closed the auction service on the game while it investigates. The company said: "Our team is working hard to fix any outstanding issues and take appropriate actions with the accounts involved." | ||
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amd098
Korea (North)1366 Posts
ah well, GG WP D3 team. | ||
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Silentenigma
Turkey2037 Posts
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
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Burrfoot
United States1176 Posts
On May 19 2013 11:59 Assault_1 wrote:Good job burr, glad this game finally paid itself off for you. What country are you from? US obviously! I paid D3 off a long time ago, after they reverted me back to starter edition for not paying my WoW annual pass after 2 months! | ||
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