Shared Stash "3" Tabs Room for 5?

[ManOluck]

Hey guys, for anyone who is in the beta test or has played the Open beta you are probably aware that the shared stash has 3 tabs when it clearly offers room for 5. I was just wondering what the opinion was from the players? Do you think blizzard might monitize the stash in some way? (ie seeing each additional slot on the blizzard store.) It is a scary thought but I have not seen anyone mention the stash before.

A link to the picture of the stash below:

http://www.diablo3professions.com/wp..._first_tab.jpg

It seems with only 3 tabs currently shared between ALL possible characters(10 per account) that your potential storage space will be grossly smaller than what we had in Diablo 2 muling(Stash + character inventory)

What are your Opinions? Thoughts? Concerns?



cheers.

[Eagle]

Used to be 5 pages, now it's 3. The official reason: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3967947405#5

[ManOluck]

Are you serious?? WTF is happening to blizzard and why do they keep force feeding us BS? Diablo 2 has no problems storing item Data and neither does WOW. How does Battle.net deevolve so badly after 1.0. It just seems like alot of excuses. The same kind of horse **** they try to feed down our throats that people dont want a social network(a robust chat interface) . It's all money making BS. And bashiok has no clue wtf he is talking about. If people had a full account of mules in d2 it only comes to reason that people will want just as much room in d3. How much do you want to bet we see "INCREASE YOUR STASH FOR ONLY $X.XX" on the blizzard store.

[Wolfpaq777]

Are you serious?? WTF is happening to blizzard and why do they keep force feeding us BS? Diablo 2 has no problems storing item Data and neither does WOW. How does Battle.net deevolve so badly after 1.0. It just seems like alot of excuses. The same kind of horse **** they try to feed down our throats that people dont want a social network(a robust chat interface) . It's all money making BS. And bashiok has no clue wtf he is talking about. If people had a full account of mules in d2 it only comes to reason that people will want just as much room in d3. How much do you want to bet we see "INCREASE YOUR STASH FOR ONLY $X.XX" on the blizzard store.

You realize that the stash is still substantially larger than it was in D2 regardless right? And that all items are a max of 2 slots in size? Right? Right? And that the auction house/blacksmith will allow you to convert unnecessary items to a valuable currency directly, without needing to store it on your 8th mule on your 3rd mule account in the dim hopes of someday finding someone willing to trade for it? Right? Do you realize all these things? Probably not, but hey, I tried.

Only one tab might cause this place to explode. They have to create some sort of illusion that this (items to RMAH) is not their intention. Three tabs seems to be juuuuussssttttt riiiigggghhhhtttt.

If your BS conspiracy theory had any validity they would have left 3 slot, 4 slot, 6 slot, and 8 slot items in the game.

[SteveG]

If your BS conspiracy theory had any validity they would have left 3 slot, 4 slot, 6 slot, and 8 slot items in the game.

Again, they still have to create an illusion that this is NOT their intention. There are plenty of design decisions that they could implement to totally milk us, but they still have a reputation to keep. They are threading that needle between maximal revenue and keeping their "gameplay first" reputation. Let's all take the fanboy-tinted glasses off, there were PLENTY of design decisions made in D3 that the "game play first" attitude did not drive. IMO, there are a few things that they considered at least for a bit, but ultimately dropped, that really would have had this community in an uproar if they were indeed implemented; a monthly fee, NO storage space, Mario and Luigi making cameo appearances, the list goes on and on.

[JWBS]

Let's all take the fanboy-tinted glasses off, there were PLENTY of design decisions made in D3 that the "game play first" attitude did not drive.

What would they be? I'm not disagreeing, just interested to hear as I haven't been following development closely for too long and have probably forgotten much of what I've read.

[Raesene]

The average player did not have tons of mule accounts in D2. Calm down.

[RazeBarb]

I don't think they'll monetize it just like that. If they do, it will be part of an expansion.
But they'll probably just patch them in at a later point.

[snowieken]

Whoah, calm down indeed. Another example of why you should breath first and slowly count to ten before posting.

I happen to think there is enough mule space for now. Unlike in D2, the biggest items are two slots big. Salvaged materials stack up to 100. More stash space means I'll just be hoarding more crap.

And I am pretty confident stash space will increase if Blizzard feels the servers are up to it in a future patch. Free of charge. The Blizzard store is for extra vanity content, not in-game utilities.

[chinz]

All materials are stackable and items are 1 or 2 slots, instead of 1-8 slots in D2... in average one item in D3 probably takes one third of the slots average item took in D2. We have 205 slots just in shared stash... that alone should be way more than one full mule account in D2 could keep, not to mention we also have ability to make more characters per account, so if you somehow manage to fill your stash you can just make a few mule characters and use their inventory space.

How much do you want to bet we see "INCREASE YOUR STASH FOR ONLY $X.XX" on the blizzard store.

I'm willing to bet up to low 4 figures (USD) that they don't, if you really are interested PM me. I have the same SN at 2+2 forums with 6k posts and I can probably get some reputable poker players or sportbettors to escrow the bet if needed.