Duping spree!
" Dupe in this context is short for 'duplication'. The earliest example of duping in an ARPG was the 1 gold trick in Diablo 1, where you could drop any item on the ground, walk away from it, and then click on it. The moment your character picked up it, you clicked on anything in your inventory and that item miraculously became the item you just picked up. I spent way, way too long splitting gold stacks in D1. In Diablo 2, I am fairly sure it was much more complicated than that, but there were definitely duplicated items. I'm not sure what the sitch is on D3 because I couldn't care less about D3. In PoE, we have a very, very rare item called a Mirror of Kalandra that slyly winks at the idea of duping by allowing you to duplicate any non-unique. It's technically a currency item but it's so rare, it doesn't have a place in the currency scale. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.
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I thought this was gonna be a Mirror of Kalandra topic where someone mirrors a bunch of starter weapons for fun before OB. :(
"In a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place."
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" It's a method of duplicating an item. Therefore, if you have found a very valuable item, and you can duplicate it, you can double your profit. And since this is digital, and duplicating doesn't cost you a dime... All you need is someone willing to pay you. Of course you first have to find a way to do that, but as was pointed out: There almost invariably are such ways - sooner or later. 12/12/12 - the day Germany decided boys are not quite human.
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There is no gold you can sell on here so it would be much harder to sell stuff since it can be tracked more easily than gold. Gets out quickly too so you're banned pretty fast.
If you dupe for yourself you get banned sooner or later anyways, so you only lose. |
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"That certainly contributes to the problem, but duping is something that can actually be stopped. The problem with D3 is that they (last I looked) literally had no dupe detection at all. Even Diablo 2 caused items in the same game to delete (unless you did a little trick), but Blizzard made no effort to delete duped items in Diablo 3. |
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" Please tell me that you're joking. I mean, I like to pretend to think that Blizzard isn't as competent as they used to be. But that? What the... Who took that cake? 12/12/12 - the day Germany decided boys are not quite human.
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"They probably had to rush things. It's possible they have some sort of dupe detection now, but they didn't when I checked a few months ago. They probably plan to have dupe detection at some point. WoW didn't have dupe detection immediately either, but they do now. But yes, I agree. I wish it was a joke. |
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" It seems PoE fixes the problem with the mirror. Such an item could be very beneficial to players who like to Dual wield, but it seems it would be more beneficial at end game where good weapons can come up frequently in maps. "The path of a true warrior is not how strong you become to defeat others; but how strong you become to protect those who matter most."
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I wonder if it's possible to design the game to delete an item automatically if a duplicate is created?
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