This is the so-called bright future: players who trick around will be banned by Activision Blizzard.

Last week, several brave players disconnected from the Internet while running Diablo IV so that the action RPG would allow them to use their non-seasonal characters in seasonal mode. (Remember: the game requires a constant Internet connection, even though we’re talking about a title that you could easily play offline, you can’t.) Meanwhile, the publisher has closed this loophole, as you can no longer move valuable items back and forth, and Activision Blizzard has reportedly banned anyone who did so…

Adam Fletcher, the game’s community manager, wrote on the forums that a patch had been released to fix the glitch and crack down on accounts exploiting the incident. The glitch allowed seasonal diamonds (one of the currencies in Diablo IV…) to be brought out “into the wild,” the Eternal Realm, so you could say it was a permaban in more than one case. On Reddit, there is someone who has been banned or knows someone. One of the banned users moved 150 million gold for his seasonal character. They knew the risks but got tired of the game. Another person was used by a friend to move their gold and was banned for something they didn’t know about.

Seasonal characters start from level one and can only bring a few items from the Eternal Realm to create equal chances on leaderboards, and moving gold and items around will break the odds. Meanwhile, the first season of Diablo IV is underway, but since the game’s release, players have reset dungeons endlessly for XP farming and have also acquired rare items with a faulty drop rate. Still, the affected users have not been banned. But others got banned for unplugging the internet cable. We have Activision Blizzard’s priority: money, money, money, money, money.

Let us know when you can play offline. That will never happen, so Diablo IV has an expiration date.

Source: PCGamer