whist wrote:People on multiplayer have been playing without an extended stash for years and they were fine, and that was before the character's inventory, cube and stash got heavily expanded in size. The plain truth is, you don't need to hoard every items. If all this space is not plenty for you, it much likely means you're hoarding, and for what really? The sad thing I've observed over the years with people hoarding, often reaching hundreds of PlugY stash pages is, more often than not, they never ever actually use a huge part of these hoarded items.
Make use of storage items like shrine vessels, arcane crystal clusters, etc. Stop keeping items you can always re-find in minutes like runes, and turn the unique items that are of no use for your characters into signets. There is no ETA on extended storage space, and even when it will be there, it will not be unlimited as it was with PlugY.
I'm sorry, but your argument does not make much sense. There already IS a way in which people can save pratically unlimited amounts of items - character muling. That means this campaign against players"hoarding" items, which is by the way, both a very unfair assumption and a very authoritarian approach to the way in which players may want to play and have fun with the game, is useless.
Diablo II is a gear-based game and every Median I've ever player only emphasised this fact. I for one, and I'm sure this is true of plenty of other players as well, enjoy collecting various items for later use/other characters, be it interesting crafts or set/sunique items.
whist wrote:If all this space is not plenty for you, it much likely means you're hoarding, and for what really?
This is just fundamentally wrong. For fun? Because scores of Diablo II (whatever the mod) players in the past have used PlugY for that very reason? Because MXL is a mod where lots and lots of items drop, and unlike in vanilla, much more of them are actually useful later on/with other characters or builds?
whist wrote:People on multiplayer have been playing without an extended stash for years
How do you know they have all been fine? Just because every third post on the forum isn't related to the limited storage situation? Maybe it has to do with players just being aware of the developers' attitue towards increased storage you just described?...
There are still countries in the world in which slavery is legal and in which a woman can be stoned to death because of infidelity. One could say that people have been fine with that in these countries for years as well - but that does not make it right.