I’ve heard that Blizzard made a patch to fix the low drop rates of good gear, but it’s a little indicative of how bad it was when the developer of the game essentially says “Yeah… Our bad.” But there are unintended side effects to this kind of stuff. I don’t think that most people will have to deal with their dog dying, but hey, People have died from playing games too much before, so maybe it’s not that unbelievable.