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Tivu

United States244 Posts

February 15 2012 06:22 GMT

#81

3 rows is still a lot of room to store stuff and most likely blizz will add more slots in another expansion.

griD77

Germany36 Posts

February 15 2012 11:46 GMT

#82

On February 15 2012 10:46 oxxo wrote:

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On February 15 2012 07:55 griD77 wrote:

On February 09 2012 09:20 willoc wrote:

On February 07 2012 06:12 griD77 wrote:
I play SinglePlayer Diablo2 with Plugy, so I have a shared stash with ~1,4 million pages for all my characters. I've been gathering items for years now. Some of the 10x10 pages are filled with rare/crafted amuletts/rings (i.e. 100 rare items which have the highest number of stats). Along with 5-10 pieces of each Unique, Setitems, Runes, hell, whatever you can find in the game. Basically thousands(!) of rather unnecessary items, just because I can.

My shared stash size is 208kB on my HD.

Even if I assume that an item in Diablo3 needs double the data than an item in D2, this is ridiculous. I mean, it's 2012. My google email account offers 7677MB for "free" (yeah, they collect some data...). Ofc these MBs don't need to be loaded at once into the server RAM etc, but seriously, item data doesn't need space. At all.

The more they reveal about D3, the less I want to play it. PoE looks good though

You're stash contents are stored on your local drive. D3's stash will be stored online and will need to be retrieved every time you access or look at the stash. This is the issue they are talking about. Not having to store it but rather having to "serve" it over and over (You are basically downloading that 208kb or whatever number you want every time).

Why should the data get send to me every time I look? I have RAM, so it will probably be once a session. And as I wrote before, the 208kB are for thousands of items, I'd be surprised if the itemdata from a full D3 stash would exceed 1/10 of that. Let's be generous and say it'll be 50kB for a full stash.
Just for comparision: Do you realize that the banner on top of this page is 33,x kB big?
Do you really think that technical issues/bandwith is a concern for those petty amounts of data, even if there are 100.000 concurrent users online in any given region? In a game that was designed to be a client/server application from the start?

I, for one, really think we are getting bullshitted.

Yes it is. Bandwidth/servers aren't as cheap as you (and everyone who complains about MMO monthly costs) think they are.

Yeah I am perfectly aware of the fact that bandwith is not free (but it is very cheap nowadays). We are still talking about petty amounts of data, so that's that.
This is just a push to highten the usage of the RMAH, which is their main source of continued revenues from the game and it is blatantly obvious.

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