I agree; better safe than sorry. It’s at least good to hear they must have been close to having it complete, even though there will now be a ton of delays.

Yea that report from Bashiok really makes it look like it was ready to go live on PTR server within a 2 week window or so. Maybe less.

First: Thx for the 1.13 information

Increased stash -> heavy load on the servers…..

Have you compared the server load from this:

* 100 uber geared bots that runs a lot of baal-runs imba fast
VERSUS
* 100 legit players in normal gear who move and fight slower?

I bet the bot causes a lot of server load so attack the core problems.

Implement shared stash or in game mailing so we get SAFE transfers of items instead of a lot of mule-games.

And do something about the bots, they have killed the game. The size of the stash is nothing compared to problems from the bot and dupes.

Good luck hunting

Don’t be naive people - this is just a cover story to explain away yet another delay caused by lack of motivation to support a game that doesn’t rake in cash.Seriously,are we supposed to believe a corporation the size of blizzard,with the quality of people blizzard employ (as they constantly tell us) can miss a simple issue like this in a 10 year old game that has been patched dozens of times already?The stash size has already been upped once,it’s not like they have no experience with this sort of implementation.

This is bullshit,we all know it.Last time it was some magical mystery war 3 issue (good timing,eh?),this time it’s some server load issue because of a feature they already have massive experience with?As above poster said,there are other GENUINE server load issues they simply refuse to deal with.I can’t remember the last time i played in a public game where 3/4 of my screen wasn’t covered in bot spam.

a simple issue like this in a 10 year old game

...with ten year-old network and database technology. Make sense now?

Nice strawman.

a)the age of the game and b.net service it uses is an argument for faster patches,not slower.

b)they have already implemented larger stashes before

c)this is at least the 2nd time that something is alleged to have just popped up out of the blue to delay the patch.

d)how can a larger stash space overload the servers?it’s going to REDUCE the load - in the form of less muling,less mule characters

e)how come this issue rears its head on the very eve of the patch either going live or going into pre-testing on a large scale.Surely something this serious would have become apparent quite a while ago,or are the programmers incompetent?One begins to wonder,what with the state of the realms in regards to bots.

Again i just can’t get past the fact that this issue has already been dealt with before.

Teitanblood took up a few points that I was thinking.
I get the feeling that they are really not interessted in releasing it but to keep interest up for D3 they are kind of forced to do it. But since interest is lacking progress is going slow and it’s convenient to blame other problems for the slow work.
Man, I havn’t played since april waiting for the ladder reset…

Working hard or hardly working?

Lets be honest, if a problem was found with the Single Player version of the patch it would have been released on the realms and SP might have seen a version of it a year later. How about being fair; if the problem is with Battle.net then give the patch to SP first!

I suppose if they’re contemplating removing new features they’d probably best do that before we get them instead of taking them out after they’ve been implemented.

They might as well be honest and say how they absolutely hate to touch the mess that is Diablo 2’s archaic code. Whenever there is a patch or something to be done with D2, its always this soup opera.

Whenever blizzard has to touch something in D2 it always feels as they are dragging themselves, moaning and whinning with their boss saying “Do we really have to do it? Cant we just let this old game rot?”.

Im no programmer but I always feel that Diablo 2 has a mess of an archaic code which no programmer, not even payed by Blizzard, would want to touch it even with a 10-ft pole.