Information from players testing S5 on the PTR.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3tskxr/ptr_24s5_season_journey_accumulated_information/
The earning of additional stash tabs (7-10) will be only awarded in seasonal play by completing Conqueror in the seasonal journey. Basically just 1 extra tab can be earned each season (so S5 = tab 7, S6 = tab 8, S7 = tab 9 and S8 = tab 10). So if each season is around 3 months long, it will take an years worth of seasonal play to unlock all the existing stash space. So they are tying what has been a often requested feature to one of their optional game modes (this after removing seasonal specific legendary drops).
Through this action, the game designers are implying they don’t have any faith that Seasons will be able to stand on its own merits. Plus their ulterior motives are now clear to me: drag out player engagement and longevity for at least the next year (time frame for D3X2) by forcing players into seasonal play and to also push these players into multiplayer co-op (they know that there will be many players looking to just get carried). Basically makes the numbers look good on paper.
Shouldn’t be too surprising; it’s how the decision makers of this franchise have operated from the get go; very little of their designs are organic and natural; it’s all forced to funnel players a certain way. Welcome to the world of the Diablo III development team.
Seasons was “sold” as optional. One can argue that additional stash tabs are also optional. Fair enough. But this continual two-faced trolling by the games lead and senior designers is just getting old and stale already. The majority of their decisions have all backfired big time requiring all of these constant bandaid fixes that should’ve never happened.
Thanks but no thanks. If Diablo III were designed properly to play like an actual action RPG, I wouldn’t mind the time sink. But it’s not; it’s an action combat ARCADE game. So they are just making it easier for me to be even more casual because I am not going to force myself into certain metas if I don’t feel like it and that right there, solves the space issue for me since by not playing this game a lot going forward, I don’t need the extra space.
