Keep cool or cash in?

[PearlOrion]

"The issue for me is if people eventually find a way to crack D3, won't that be like printing fake money on the RMAH?"

If this happens I'm sure Blizzard will take legal action against the person/person's involved, its no different than fraud irl.

I haven't found any precedent cases relating to hijacking a game server and then printing $. Proving the 1st case would be hard, tracing where and how the items are laundered harder and extraditing the suspects the hardest. Anyone with legal background please comment on this.

[Magikarp]

I haven't found any precedent cases relating to hijacking a game server and then printing $. Proving the 1st case would be hard, tracing where and how the items are laundered harder and extraditing the suspects the hardest. Anyone with legal background please comment on this.

if im not mistaken, blizzard sued a bunch of people for making private wow servers and making money off it. blizzard won 5 millions dollars in one case

[Enlil]

I haven't found any precedent cases relating to hijacking a game server and then printing $. Proving the 1st case would be hard, tracing where and how the items are laundered harder and extraditing the suspects the hardest. Anyone with legal background please comment on this.

If you look at the subject in very simple terms.

A person has found a way to create items of value out of thin air and is selling them to the public for real money, no different than printing your own money really.

If its a simple case of duping and blizzard deletes the items that someone has paid real money for, that person will want there money back from blizzard.

I agree it would be the first legal case of its kind.

I'm sure something like this will happen sooner or later, it will be interesting to see blizzards legal stand point on it.
There will be some very interesting stories on the interwebs about this I'm sure.

Blizzards legal people must be sh*itting it about now xD

[galzohar]

Well, looking at how limited (or non-existent?) hacking is in WoW, I doubt it will be very different in D3. When everything runs on their servers, and they aren't a bugged piece of !@#! like the D2 servers, then stuff should be good in terms of hacking. Botting is more difficult to deal with, but bots don't exactly print money either.

[galzohar]

Unlikely - As people keep farming but not so many new players struggle with end-game (or any) content, more and better items become available without people to buy them, causing prices to drop. You need some special stuff to happen to make a specific item's price go up, like a patch to change how it's balanced, introduction of PvP, etc.