I tend to jump on the “no changes” bandwagon fairly regularly and it seems like some changes are pretty unavoidable.
There are significantly fewer bots in the new game. The difference is that you can’t just join a Baal game whenever you feel like it. In old D2, you could actually be playing at a time late at night when there are more Baal bots than players.
Anyways, I don’t really care all that much about that. What I do care about is stash space. A single CD Key effectively had infinite storage in the old game. 4 stashes is not enough for me.
Of course, the first thing someone is going to say is “LOL PICK UP LESS STUFF,” or “LOL BUY MORE ACCOUNTS!”
No. I won’t. I’d rather just not play anymore. It feels like I’m playing D2 on one leg. Saving stuff to craft for later, especially when you’re starting out, is IMO the best way to play. This is not to mention that I want to be able to drop stuff into “free stuff” games once in a while, but I can’t justify holding anything I won’t use within a couple of days.
You could say “yea make a new character to start holding things!,” but if you think about it, if you also intend to work on nonladder and you have leveled many characters to 90+ in seasons, you’ll eventually reach a point where that’s no longer an option.
Anyways, long story short, I want more stash space. I can’t enjoy the game without it.
They recently “updated” player reporting… I can only assume since it didn’t work before that the “update” now means it works… So my best guess is the public Baal bots are in hiding to avoid being reported.
Due to an oversight on Blizzards part. And it was basically too late for them to do anything about it once the masses started taking advantage of it. Thus they added the 90 day character expiration.
David Brevik has said multiple times that he is a storage space miser… Do you really think that he intended for us to have infinite stash space? No, he didn’t.
Well, I mean, you could always stop picking up junk/item grailing, and if you insist on not stopping, you can of course always buy more accounts.
Space limitations make that space more valuable. Learn to use it wisely.
As someone who regularly maintained 6+ accounts in the old days for each ladder season, not going to compromise.
The server they used to run old D2 could probably run on an Arduino as of a decade ago. No excuse for reducing space requirements. D3 has probably 10x more storage space.
It doesn’t matter how many items todays hardware is capable of storing with ease. They could store a PlugY amount of items for us all if they really wanted to, but that’s just too darned easy and offers zero challenge to the player.
It’s a challenge to determine what items are and aren’t worth saving. If space is running low, it’s up to the player to consolidate their perceived value of their items via trading a larger number of big things for roughly an equal value of smaller and less numerous things… Or if it’s not worth the time, vendor them, give them away or throw them on the ground.
They’re just bits and pixels.
Nothing is stopping you from going back to the OG.
Reported OP to TLC for their new Virtual Hoarders series. You know this mofo keeping a perfect goldskin just for the one day to break it out for no reason.
This game is the embodiment of his opinion, his vision of Diablo. (Credit due to the Schaefer bros. and others that were with Blizzard North that worked on the game.)
It’s OK, I get where you’re coming from though… Everything that you like about the game, DB and the rest of Blizzard Norths opinion was great. Anything you don’t like, “Noone cares what DB said”.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
If the reason(s) you don’t like the game outweigh the reason(s) you like the game, stop playing the game, otherwise, enjoy.
You sure about that? I mean they did away with multiple free game accounts with one copy of the game in D2:R, so that is kind of a give away that they never intended for the game to have limitless space.
Take D3. It shipped w/o an auction house. Later it was introduced. FAst forward a bit, it was removed.
Directions change. Products change.
If a head honcho leaves, the new head honcho might (or might not) change significant things.
If Bobby, or VV or Activision or MS or whoever makes the decision decides that they want to throw infinite free storage at the player base (not that they will), then that’s what happens. WHatever DB posted 20+ years ago.
If they decide to nerf (insert your personal pet peeve skill or item), that’s what happens, no matter what someone who left 20 years ago thinks or said.
They think sunder charms and mosaic are a cool idea? They introduce those, even if DB and the Schafers would be puking in all colours of the rainbow at the mere idea of that. Doesn’t matter. They are history. New sheriff in town.
D2/LoD had TCP/IP support. Does d2r? Sucks …
Did d2r ship with multiple free game accounts? Honest question, I wasn’t around for the first year.
But I’m rather certain that D2 and LoD still do have multiple free game accounts, don’t they?
