Season of bugs: Blizzard takes Diablo 4 trading offline as players abuse busted glitch

Diablo 4 season five has been nothing short of a fiesta, with Blizzard’s developers forced to battle numerous glitches and bugs that keep breaking the game.

The latest bug to appear has caused chaos on the markets, with players suddenly able to duplicate items like gems and gear. This, of course, led to trading exploits—a growing problem Blizzard has quickly attempted to stamp out by totally disabling the trading feature as the devs investigate this latest issue.

Diablo 4‘s community manager director Adam Fletcher today confirmed in-game trading had been disabled across all platforms due to the duplication bug. The team’s even gone as far as disabling the ability to drop items for other Diablo players to pick up, PC GamesN has reported, and they have yet to fully identify the problem.

This may not seem like a big deal to most players, but it’s causing problems for players who trade summoning materials with their friends in Diablo 4 groups. It also means that the in-game economy has taken a hit because high-value items that were previously being sold for large sums of money are now being sold for a fraction of this because there was no farming or grinding involved to get these duplicated items. On top of all this, there’s no Auction House to stabilize the economy; an absent feature this bug may finally rectify.

An Auction House would stabilize the economy and trading, but players fear these duplication bugs, which seem to happen every season, may just kill Diablo 4‘s economy entirely. It’s simply up to Blizzard to quickly address these issues before they become too much of a problem, or, better yet, drop a season with minimal bugs.

That hasn’t been the case this time around; Diablo 4 season five has been plagued to the hilt with bugs and glitches. Temper recipes were carried over from season four, Umbracrux was disabled due to instant power-leveling, Runeshards weren’t dropping, and the Gauntlet was even temporarily disabled by an issue.

Incredibly, this is only a few of them. There’s so many bugs this season players can’t believe how “plagued with bugs the game is” and some are even starting to claim “season five has been [Diablo 4‘s] worst experience.”

We don’t have an official timeline for when the duplication issue will be fixed. Given how many bugs are still running rampant in Diablo 4, it may not be soon.