Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn't stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there

Diablo 4 has had its fair share of bugs that players have gleefully exploited. If it’s not some item that gives you the power to deal infinite damage, it’s a dungeon dropping too much loot. Diablo is a complicated videogame; unforeseen interactions are kind of inevitable.But that’s not how I’d describe the latest thing players are exploiting in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. There’s an item with a number so big that I cannot imagine anyone at Blizzard would’ve thought it was OK to do on purpose. Someone must’ve forgotten a decimal point because it’s the sole reason players are currently making billions more gold than is normally possible.A new Lord of Hatred Horadric seal item says you will earn 900% more gold when you equip it. Not 9% or 90%. It says 900% and it means it. No other item has a number that big, which is why many players think it’s a mistake. The amount of gold that drops scales way up as you climb into the highest difficulty levels already, but with this item, you don’t really need to worry about it again.In the past, gold wouldn’t be much of an issue. But in Lord of Hatred, there are quite a lot of things that will empty your pockets. Something as simple as swapping out a single stat on an item can cost millions of gold to gamble for the one you want. And the new skill trees that modify the game’s different endgame activities charge you…

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