Diabolical behaviour: Blizzard-in-denial warms up the ban-hammer.
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If Blizzard swings its ban-hammer and you don't get out of the way, that's your fault. That's what a post on the Blizzard blog today seemed to say, reminding readers very carefully of the terms and conditions that they'd signed up to. Meanwhile, they were denying the existence of a supposed flaw in the auction house that allows item and/or gold duplication in the EU (as Phill reported earlier, the Korean servers are down while Blizzard investigate the exploits over there.) 
Earlier this month I was mugged (or “meat-hacked") by some teenagers, which at the time I thought was quite rude. They took my phone. “That was rude of them," I told the police, plainly, before asking “does it happen very often?" It does indeed happen very often, the policeman informed me. There are on average seven reported mobile phone robberies a day in my area, which seems like a lot until you do the maths: at that rate it would take 117 years to steal every mobile phone in the borough. Hardly efficient. Muggers are idiots. They lack the understated professionalism of Diablo III hackers.
Ever wanted to check the status of the Diablo 3 servers while you’re on a hike, or maybe attempting to sail single-handedly around the world? Or just thinking whether it's worth leaving the office on-time or just heading to the pub? Well, with Diablo 3’s Server Checker for Android, you can!
In the beginning, the most high created a PC mouse. And, to give the mouse something to do for all eternity, he took one of its buttons and made from it a finger to click the mouse forever and ever. Then he made Diablo, so it had a damn good reason to click it. And, ‘lo, across the land, the new humans he’d attached to the fingers got RSI from clicking so damn much, so wanted something Diablo-related to read while they waited for their hands to recover. So we made this history of the Diablo games and we saw it was good. 
Some say it's so graphically efficient it can run on an overclocked pocket calculator, and that what the camera can't zoom in on the eye can't really see. But Diablo III is a deceptively complex game, with its fair share of technical troubles that can trouble even the most powerful systems. And that's before you get to the always online thing.
We can't do much to help improve server stability or disconnects, but there are a few pieces of advice we can give you to get Diablo III running smoothly.
If Blizzard wasn’t having enough problems already, with Diablo 3’s overloaded servers and ridiculous anti-piracy measures, news is filtering through of mass account hacks. Remember; this is a single (or at most four-player) game that had no reason to be online-only beyond Blizzard’s increasingly ludicrous concerns about piracy. 
Blizzard has announced that the Auction house will be delayed until an unspecified date. Note, this doesn’t mean it’s been cancelled, just that they’re still ironing out some bugs. They also announced an already-live patch (to both the launcher and the game - perhaps to prevent the many examples of hacking that have been reported.) Nethaera, one of the community management team, put out a short announcement:
