{"id":19690,"date":"2013-05-16T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19690"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:52:32","slug":"diecast-13-ea-star-wars-exclusive-diablo-iii-integer-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19690","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #13: Star Wars Exclusive, Diablo III Integer Overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Chris playing Star Wars games? What unexpected turn caused me to buy Starcraft 2? What ridiculous stuff happened in SimCity this week? What mailbag letters will we answer? The answers to these questions can be found by listening to the podcast.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast13.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast13.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast13.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast13.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast13.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/mbafford-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/diecast.xml'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><br \/>--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/zs5SGDzZ#LRxEqHHUCjKqhWsE_-fbgplj4nzxP-Kaz-P3A8qrIo8!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/zs5SGDzZ#LRxEqHHUCjKqhWsE_-fbgplj4nzxP-Kaz-P3A8qrIo8\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/u9YS2Z5T#D_h4AfRkVE5opT6jP_uE-nYQ_e1BWmWP4Gas8Cy9l-E\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:45<\/strong> What&#8217;s everyone playing?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<p>Chris: ALL THE STAR WARSJosh: The Witcher, Crusader Kings 2<\/p>\n<p>Shamus: <del datetime=\"2013-05-15T14:12:30+00:00\">Monaco, Mark of the Ninja, Poker Night 2, Brutal Legend, Fez, Miasmata, Deadlight, Knife of Dunwall<\/del>. Actually, just Starcraft 2.<\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn has been LARPing. Don&#8217;t tell mom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>18:00<\/strong> Aliens: Colonial Marines<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2013\/5\/10\/4318516\/sega-reports-18-7-percent-drop-in-sales-plans-to-focus-more-on-digital\">A:CM has actually been selling well despite being horrible and broken in every way.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>25:20<\/strong> EA gets Star Wars exclusive.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ea.newshq.businesswire.com\/press-release\/company-news\/walt-disney-company-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement\">So EA is now the only place you can get your crappy NFL games AND your crappy Star Wars retreads. <\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>32:00<\/strong> SimCity. Still! Yeah!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">EA executive assures us <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/ea-says-simcity-has-recovered-from-a-challenging-launc-494459542\">everything is fine. Nothing is ruined<\/a>. So that&#8217;s good news.<\/div>\n<p><strong>39:30<\/strong> Diablo III integer overflow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<p>A fairly mundane bug (integer overflow) happened in a critical place (real money auction house) and <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/blogs\/MaxWoolf\/20130508\/191959\/Diablo_III_Economy_Broken_by_an_Integer_Overflow_Bug.php\">borked the entire Diablo III economy<\/a>.And yes, I bungled this explanation a bit with regard to what values can be stored in a 4-byte integer, and I muddled the economic explanation. In my defense, I realized that what I THOUGHT was going to be a quick explanation quickly turned into me hogging the podcast for five minutes. It tried to hurry through it, and we wound up with an explanation that was both long AND sprinkled with mis-statements and inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>Uh. Sorry?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>49:20<\/strong> MAIL TIME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Chris playing Star Wars games? What unexpected turn caused me to buy Starcraft 2? What ridiculous stuff happened in SimCity this week? What mailbag letters will we answer? The answers to these questions can be found by listening to the podcast. Download MP3 File Download Ogg Vorbis File 00:45 What&#8217;s everyone playing? 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