Diablo III was hit with yet another exploit this week as players discovered a way to duplicate gold via a bug in the auction house. Blizzard responded by shutting down the auction house but did not perform a server rollback to reverse the damage. Path of Exile also released a new Letters of Wraeclast lore feature in its latest update.

Controversy hit the Diablo III community this week as a gold-duplicating exploit was discovered on the auction house. The exploit involved cancelling a bid on an auction within its final seconds, which returned the gold immediately and then returned it again when the auction ended. It’s not known how long this exploit has been in the game, but details of it went public this week and threw the game economy into chaos. Prices on good items were massively inflated and gold was rapidly devalued before Blizzard took the auction house down.

Rather than perform a server rollback, Blizzard decided to audit all transactions on the auction house in order to find those abusing the exploit. This unfortunately won’t repair the damage to the game economy as much of the gold had already been passed onto new owners and the biggest exploiters may have cashed their proceeds out of the game by now. Blizzard zeroed in on 415 exploiters before bringing the AH back online and donated their ill-gotten gains to charity.

This week’s Path of Exile update added several new cosmetic microtransaction items and a few secret vendor recipes. The patch also introduced a new Letters of Wraeclast feature that helps tell the backstory behind some of the game’s NPCs. Grinding Gear Games plans to add voice-acting for these letters soon. (FROM MASSIVELY)

Is there a light at the end of Diablo III’s auction house woes? Blizzard is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to make it so. After a nasty gold duping exploit and the subsequent suspension of all services, the Diablo III auction house is back online — and Blizzard is looking to save face with its return.

Production Director John Hight gave a lengthy explanation of what happened with the situation and why Blizzard responded the way it did. “Only a relatively small number of players had the billions of gold necessary to exploit the bug, and only 415 of those players chose to use this exploit for personal gain,” Hight wrote. “We elected not to roll back the servers in the Americas and are instead working to remove duplicated gold from the economy through targeted audits and account actions (as indicated above) without taking away progress that our players rightfully earned.”

Hight said that the studio is donating all proceeds from auctions conducted by dupers to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

The world’s most popular MMO has gotten a bit less popular in the last few months, it would seem. During today’s quarterly investor call, Activision-Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers are down to 8.3 million. While that’s still nothing to thumb your nose at, it does represent a significant decline from the 9.6 million subscribers the game was reported to have last February.

Yet, some still regard WOW as the most popular MMO of the market, some say it is lack of challenges, and move on to other games, like EVE Online, and some stick to the game simply because of the time and money they have invested in… What do you say?

Sobriety is overrated. Sure, a lot of games give players the options to get characters plastered, but Age of Wushu takes it one step further by incorporating the pop culture notion of drunken fighting into the game. A character with a high alcohol tolerance won’t just be able to fight after tipping back a few drinks; he’ll actually be able to fight better due to an Evade buff granted after imbibing. Characters with lower tolerance, meanwhile, will just stagger and find themselves unable to react appropriately.

That’s not the limit of what you can do with liquor in a fight, though. You can also spray your opponent with spirits in mid-battle, hopefully intoxicating and disorienting the other fighter. Of course, if you attempt to use this technique on someone with a predilection for potables, you might find that you’ve just handed your nemesis a major advantage. Take a look at some plastered punching in the preview video just past the break.

The downside of picking up some special items and drops in Star Wars: The Old Republic is that a lot of them are limited. Sure, you might be able to buy Revan’s Mask, but you have to decide which of your characters will get to wear it. But that’s changing in patch 2.1. A recent interview sheds more light on the upcoming Collections system, which will allow you to unlock items you have obtained on one character for repeated access.

Once you’ve obtained an item on a character, that item will be marked in your collection, allowing you to recreate that item for that character. Pay a few Cartel Coins and that item unlocks for every character in your account, including characters on other servers. The system will include mounts, armors, and pets, with more room for special promotions and the like in the future. So now you don’t have to worry about who gets the special mount — everyone can get the benefit. (from massively )

EVE is celebrating its 10th anniversary of an action-packed weekend within the EVE Universe. It is not just a party because they are running a campaign on Facebook “likes” to work towards free gifts and fireworks, on Sunday May 5th.

Every “like” that EVE Online’s Facebook page receives will help unlock free gifts for players and hourly firework drops. The gifts will be handed out after downtime on Sunday the 5th of May. There will also be an attempt to break the current PCU record, so the park your accounts and enjoy the display. To keep you entertained, there will be two “Hunt a Dev” roams, prizes, and oodles of player events. You can check out all the details on the official page.

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The customization options continue to grow in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Producer Cory Butler told The Old Republic Roleplay that besides the appearance designer and Cathar coming in Update 2.1, players will also be able to change their characters’ names. Finally, Darth LordSnuffleFluff can change his name to Darth LordMegaSnuffleFluff like he always wanted.

Butler explains that the name-change option will be available on the Cartel Market as an unlock. However, since it is an unlock and not a service through the official website, that means some players will be able to change names with in-game credits via the Galactic Trade Network.

Congratulations, SWTOR players, you will now be able to change everything about your character except class and gender when GU 2.1 releases. Buy SWTOR CREDITS here on mmovalue!

It has been quite long, officially one year, since BioWare announced the new player-species for Star Wars: The Old Republic. And today, we finally get the result. SWTOR, through the fansites, explained that the Cathar will eventually come in next major patch, known as GU 2.1: Customization.

Republic players were introduced to the Cathar race early on in their class missions on both Tython and Ord Mantell. Imperial players may have come across the Cathar race on Balmorra. One of the Bounty Hunter’s opponents early on in the piece is a Cathar. This cat-like race is a common sight in MMOs. People seem to have a weird fascination with the cat-look.

The other way that SWTOR gamers may have come across the Cathar race is with the Trooper companion, Aric Jorgan. This Cathar companion will be getting a full facelift with patch 2.1 and GamingFace will be doing a complete “Many Looks Of” post with all the options as soon as possible, so that you can see all of the available customizations.

According to Producer Cory Butler, Cathar can be unlocked for 600 Cartel Coins on an account, and this price will be the same for both Subscribers and Free-to-Play and Preferred Status players. The Cathar have a wide variety of markings and colors available; some may appear more familiar to players than others. And when asked why Carthar is emerging, Bulter said, “One of the reasons we chose Cathar is because they are new and unfamiliar to many of our players — in much the same way as Rattataki and Chiss — but have been well-received by our players.”

You can get more information on Interview with BioWare on the introduction of the Cathar player race with patch 2.1 in SWTOR

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The Developer Chat has concluded, and while there were no earth-shattering announcements hidden within, the chat certainly had its interesting moments. Among the topics of discussion were:
The Alliance’s role after the siege of Orgimmar
Balancing classes in PvP
The continuation of reputation-based questlines
The possible return of world events
The state of Skyclaw and Pierre
Class quests
… and more!
You can check out the transcript on Developer Q&A transcript. Participating developers were Dave Kosak (Fargo), Ion Hazzikostas (Watcher), Brian Holinka (Desvin), Cory Stockton (Mumper), and Greg Street (Ghostcrawler).(from wowinsider)

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ArenaNet has been searching for a solution to Guild Wars 2‘s WvW reset problem for a while now. See, thanks to the way that not everybody is on the same time, finding a unified reset time for players in both Europe and North America has been a real pain in the Alpha Siege Golem. The solution? ArenaNet is simply separating the reset times. Starting with the next matchup, North American WvW matches will reset Fridays at 9:00 p.m. EDT, while European matches will reset at 2:00 p.m. EDT (7:00 p.m. GMT). This is meant to lead to a smoother (and more sleep-friendly) experience for everyone. Buy gold on mmovalue please. (from massively.com)