Shrink shared stash, add character stash space?

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Not many compared to what’s back in then. However, their data and information is still there. D3 still actively played and servers have to calculate the traffic feedback for damage, decryption of assets according to seed and communicate with client side RNG to determine your outcome.

Agreed, but we talking about storage here. Regarding WoW servers, do they own it or rent them?

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A better example; D3 classic in China is free to play but it’s monetized so it kinda covers its own cost in a way.

Is the monetization model in China still making money? It is an old game afterall.

@naksiloth-1354

My opinion is that it will cause some problems, when you think about solo play. Even with multiplayer you still have to be capable of changing character by going out to lobby. So I don’t entirely get the gist of the OP’s idea and I guess I never will.

Don’t think OP solution will change bandwidth load unless a lot more players are loading/unloading to handle stash but Shadout offered an elegant solution by having all the stash maintenance done in menu.

I’m pretty sure we will disagree on the root cause of Blizzard not offering more stash space. Here is my take on it.

There is a technical limitation to adding more stash in the form of “actors” as they outlined. Will the OP solution be a solution? Quite possible I think but why won’t they do it?

Because no matter what solution they deploy, it will require development time and cost to test it. I’m betting that’s the major reason. They have very limited staff working on D3 and it’s basically on maintenance mode.

Currently, they have showed time and time again they don’t have the ability to properly test and launch changes. For example:

• Multiple seasons where players couldn’t group (same bug keeps reoccuring)
• Class Balance continues to be an issue. Once they posted their benchmark is GR 130 on paragon 5000. But we can see that’s not even close this season : [Greater Rift] Class Power Level in S22 Solo
• Just by making changes to the forum they’ve broken the web armory several times.

So honestly, I don’t think they are adding more stash space because they don’t have the resources (man power) to implement it for an old game like this.