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Diablo bots earned player $100k

Earnings were made in Auction House trades in just one year.

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A Bulgarian Diablo player going under the name Cherokee Brook has lifted the lid on his exploits in the third game's old Auction House, describing how he was able to make $100k by selling rare items over the course of a solitary year.

In his blog, A Diablo 3 Story, Brook explained how he used his extensive knowledge of the game, along with programming skills learned along the way, to create bots that monitored the auction house, buying low-priced rare/legendary items and then selling them for a considerable profit.

"You have to realize that in Bulgaria, where the average wage is a little over 700 leva (€360) per month, this was a big deal. I was making more than what most of the football players playing for the country's top clubs were," Brook wrote, also explaining how he was able to make roughly €370 (nearly $500 / £300) every day.

"It turns out that in a game like Diablo 3 that has millions of players in each region (Europe, Americas and Asia) there are so many players that have no idea what they're doing that good and expensive items are being put for sale on the Auction House for ridiculous prices all the time," he wrote.

"In fact, even mind-bogglingly dumb trades are not uncommon when you have a sample size of millions. It seems that most players in Diablo 3 just had no idea what they were doing when it came to item trading and the Auction House."

Of course that naivety allowed people like Brook to take advantage, although he does explain how the game's diminishing economy made it harder and harder for him to make money (until Blizzard evenually took the Auction House offline).

"From late May 2012 to July 2013, in a little over a year, the price of gold in Diablo 3 managed to decrease more than 1000 times," he explained.

"This of course led to the real price of items decreasing in a similar manner. The result of that was that players felt that they were never finding anything valuable while playing, nor were they finding any valuable amount of gold with which to buy the more expensive items in the AH."

"Rampant gold/item farming bots (the ones running around in the game collecting stuff) left unchecked for months plus a severe lack of meaningful gold sinks ruined Diablo 3's economy."

Diablo III: Ultimate Edition, which includes the base game, the Reaper of Souls expansion, plus a few console-only tweaks and changes, is about to launch on PlayStation 4, and surprisingly enough, the latest version of the game doesn't include an Auction House.

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