14th Stash Tab on the PTR

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I’m sure everyone remembers the Stash Tab fiasco from Season 17 PTR / Live, where the number of extra tabs earnable was reduced from 9 to 5, meaning that the maximum possible Stash Tabs was increased to 13 (6 from D3+ROS, 2 from Necro DLC, 5 from Seasons)…
https://us.diablo3.com/en/blog/22976066/season-17-the-season-of-nightmares-begins-517-5-10-2019#pqol

The reasoning we were told was…

In addition, we encountered a lot of technical issues with increasing overall stash space for players. Unfortunately, as these issues caused significant degredation of the overall gameplay experience, we ultimately had to take a step back on this quality of life improvement and table it for now.

So, how come I just earned a 14th Stash Tab on the PTR…
http://ximg.co.uk/images/2019/07/31/d3_ptr_266_season18_conqueror_14th_stash_tab.jpg

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why can’t they just make everything single slot

you’d effectively get more stash space without actually getting more stash space ><

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Hopefully they are trying to test adding one more and see if the “performance issues” are still there, so we may actually get another tab in S18.

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They decided to stick with 13 tabs after the last PTR, then forgot to change it actually in the game as they have done with other stuff.

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This is a smokescreen to distract all the Barbs from there severe neglect the last several years.

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They are just trolling you guys on the PTR, so you get your hopes up, then they can smash your dreams just before the patch goes live.

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I hope this is the right one.

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I think this is just a bug, actually…

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Yep 14th tab this season, 15th the next, etc etc.

Remember, what they said was that they couldn’t just give everyone more tabs, and they never said the 13th tab was the absolute last one ever.

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Pretty sure this is a bug. I wouldnt expect this live

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Morticks Tab… it’ll get taken away once season goes live.

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Would be nice to see another tab in season 18.

I won’t hold my breath tho! hehe.

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Neither would I. The point is that they obviously didn’t bother to fix the code that adds more tabs, despite the S17 announcement and Nev’s forum postings saying that adding them would break the servers.

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Maybe we can break the PTR

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This is the most likely one in IMO. One of the hallmarks of Diablo 3 patches over the years has been bugs previously eradicated suddenly returning in exactly their old form right down to the trigger and/or events required to cause it to happen. It was as if they weren’t using a very good version control system (e.g. using an old codebase as a starting point for each new patch, and in the process reintroducing bugs that commits after that codebase’s snapshot point had eliminated). See: Disappearing cursor bug during boss cutscenes (especially The Butcher’s).

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PTR testers are encouraged to, by Blizzard themselves (per the patch announcement).

From a broad perspective: there’s something truly sad about the addition of a few stash tabs to a game like Diablo being enough to ‘break’ the game.

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Certainly an interesting turn of events. I didn’t play season on the PTR so I never noticed this. However I do agree with the majority here and believe this is an unintended glitch. It’s not like broken, previously fixed things haven’t reappeared on the PTR before.

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And yet, the PTR servers haven’t crashed due to people having 14 tabs…

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This is my hope as well

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Whaaa, whaaaaaa, what??? You mean to tell me there aren’t countless threads in the PTR about the game crashing, computers melting, the internet bursting into flames because PTR players now have 14 tabs?

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I was thinking the same :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Has there been any posts indicating that this is a bug or is there hope yet for stash tab 14?

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Currently, there’s been no response to my PTR Bug Report thread…

Having said that, I’m not holding my breath. Heck, I posted five days ago about the PTR having hour long queues to log in and there’s been no response to that either.

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