Looks like the first hack for Diablo III has already appeared

[Ohio Joe]

http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-beta-speed-hack

Sheesh... Blizzard does make great games but they really need to give their boasting of upcoming games being hack proof a rest. They should have just stuck with open and battlenet games and made it so we do not always have to be connected to Battlenet to play. I really hope they change their minds before release.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Even scarier is the D2 duping scheme linked to at the bottom of that article.

I'm really hoping to make some money in the D3 marketplace. Now I'm already starting to wonder. :(

[Ohio Joe]

2. dupes have been around D2 almost since day 1

Blizzard gave up trying to fix it in the first year, the problem would have required far to much work to fix on an already released product. They have patched to temp fix it a few times but it was always back in a day or two..

They seem to have a whole new approach to items for D3 as well as a whole new approach to Battlenet. As best I am understanding it though, the client runs entirely on each persons machine. Seems to me that will make things like duping and map hack easy. Map hack does not matter much but I hope they have a good plan for dupes.