From the Arreat Summit, a few days ago:Diablo II Item Duplication, Realm Stability
The latest item duplication exploit that occurred over the last
several days has been stopped. The lag that has been seen over
the last several days on the Diablo II realms was a result of the
massive user duplication efforts.
Currently Diablo II realms are very unstable due to the effects of
duplicate items upon the servers. We are working to fix this
instability as quickly as possible.
A reminder: Any individual caught using a **** on Battle.net
(including, but not limited to "dupe" hacks and "server crash"
hacks) may have their items, characters or accounts deleted. It is
a violation of Battle.net's Terms of Service to utilize duplicated
items. Do not use them. The Battle.net team is devoted to
nullifying all hacks and exploits on Diablo II realms as well as
catching individuals exploiting our games.
Also, we have fixed crashes involving Druids wearing items totaling
+13 to all skills, and a bug with +20 to wereform when switched to
that wereform.
-The Battle.net Team
I don't know, but this just ****es me off... Why can't these d**n pimply faced, hormone imbalanced, hacker wannabes leave the Closed servers alone and peddle their ***** on the open servers???? That's what they're there for. Let the people who want to play an honest game be! All their efforts are doing is ****ing off Blizzard, who if they don't stop, I would not be suprised if they pull closed servers off!
D**n if it doesn't make me want to contact a few friends and cause some damage...