Der Patch 1.0.8 für Diablo III wurde am Dienstag in den USA und am Mittwoch in Europa auf die Server aufgespielt. In Übersee sorgte das Update allerdings für einen folgenschweren Bug beim Echtgeld-Auktionshaus.

Bei Spielern, die Teile ihres Goldes gegen echtes Geld verkaufen wollten, trat ein Fehler auf, bei dem das Auktionshaus die Transaktion nicht annahm und das Gold in doppelter Ausführung zurückgeschickt wurde. Die Folge: Es konnte Gold aus dem Nichts erschaffen werden - mit entsprechenden Folgen für die Wirtschaft. Daraufhin hat Blizzard das Auktionshaus in Nordamerika abgeschaltet. Laut den Entwicklern sollen aber nur "wenige Leute" diesen Bug ausgenutzt haben, weswegen es keinen Server-Rollback (Zurücksetzen der Server) geben wird. Vielmehr sollen die einzelnen (gespeicherten) Transaktionen verfolgt und entsprechend korrigiert werden. Auch wenn viele Spieler im Forum einen Rollback fordern, sieht Blizzard von dieser Maßnahme ab, damit die Fortschritte der ehrlichen Spieler nicht ebenfalls rückgängig gemacht werden.

In Europa ist der Fehler bislang nicht aufgetreten.

"At this time (and after careful consideration), we've decided to not move forward with rolling back the servers. We feel that this is the best course of action given the nature of the dupe, how relatively few players used it, and the fact that its effects were fairly limited within the region. We've been able to successfully identify players who duplicated gold by using this specific bug, and are focusing on these accounts to make corrections. While this is a time-consuming and very detailed process, we believe it's the most appropriate choice given the circumstances. We know that some of you may disagree, but we feel that performing a full roll back would impact the community in an even greater way, as it would require significant downtime as well as revert the progress legitimate players have made since patch 1.0.8 was released this morning. (...) We've confirmed that we've fixed the bug which allowed players to duplicate gold; however, we will be keeping the gold and real-money Auction Houses offline in the Americas until further notice (gold trades will also remain suspended). We'll be using this downtime to perform audits on all transactions conducted through the Auction House as well as trades in which gold was exchanged since 1.0.8 launched."

**Update 12.05.2013**
Blizzard hat in der Zwischenzeit den AH-Bug behoben. Das US-Auktionshaus funktioniert wieder. Die Entwickler versuchen weiterhin das duplizierte Gold aus dem Spiel zu entfernen - schon mehr als 85% will Blizzard entdeckt haben.

"As of this this post, we have already recaptured more than 85% of the excess gold from the accounts involved, and over the days ahead we will continue to pore over our audit data to reclaim as much duplicate currency as possible. We've also done a full audit of our code to help make sure that something like this doesn't happen again. (...) Many people bought and sold items and gold on the Auction House on Tuesday. We're making sure that all legitimate transactions go through. This means that if your account was not involved in the exploit, you will get to keep your items and gold, as well as any money you received from sales on the real-money Auction House. We'll also be donating all proceeds from auctions conducted by the suspended or banned players - including all of THEIR sale proceeds that we intercepted as well as our transaction fee - to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals."