Gamers petition for Diablo III offline gaming patch

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Kantor said:
It is not, and never has been, about piracy. It's about ensuring that the game can't be hacked and the Real Money Auction House (if the thing ever launches) can't be exploited for real money, destroying the game's economy.

Then they really did a piss poor job at it, because hacks have been a constant since D3 released. People losing their characters and being completely stripped off items and gold and Blizz's only solution is: "Get an authenticator"?. So I paid 45€ for the game and I have to fork an extra 10€ to ensure that my characters are safe which is something that Blizz should be doing in the first place with this online mode?. 

RMAH was never about protection against exploits, it's about Blizz getting the lion's share of the item sale business that generated with D2. A 15% direct fee goes to Blizzard, no matter how small the transaction is, and in the first few weeks of RMAH launching (if it ever launches), you can be sure that Blizz will make a ton of money, as insane prices will come up (the upper limit is 250$ for goddess sake ,250$) and there will also be an equal share of stupid people buying those items.