I heard a rumor that the game loads every players stash tabs when you interact/are close to them, this is apparently one of the reasons why the game is so laggy. Take this with a grain of salt tho

inclusivity! you're never alone with all those account bound items in every other players' stashes!

ROFL

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Jul 22 2023 11:29am

Makes no sense, why would they overload the servers for that?

Also the saying is 'pinch of salt'

This post was edited by magic_KK on Jul 22 2023 12:52pm

I don't think that's the only reason, but its definitely part of it. The entire patch is designed to slow down players so they don't complete content too fast(and leave), since it takes time to make, and the underestimated how fast players would go through new content and overestimated their replayability loop(ITEMS SUCK). That's literally what this patch is, a "SLOW THEM DOWN SO THEY DONT DO EVERYTHING AND QUIT BEFORE NEXT SEASON" patch ordered by management. Its the only real explanation.

So yes, people should absolutely look at this mediocre game and ask themselves why the hell are they still on it.

This post was edited by FORt-HOBO on Jul 22 2023 01:00pm

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Jul 22 2023 01:07pm

Thanks for the perspective!

Apparently this came from a tweet by Joseph Piepiora in which he confirmed this.

Take this with a grain of salt though but:

(Not my words obviously)

Items are very memory intensive because instead of storing IDs for items that are stored and loaded elsewhere, they're storing the items themselves (probably because every single item in this game is unique and they don't have a good algorithm for procedurally generating items based off a short string). And I bet the item itself also holds the model and texture instead of a reference to both so the game has to load the model and texture for every item in your inventory, even duplicates. And your inventory includes your entire stash. And on top of that because this is an MMO like game, the servers are the ones loading all of this data for potentially hundreds of players or whoever has a session on that individual server, so giving every player in the session the ability to hold twice as many items puts a huge memory requirement on the servers which they probably can't handle today.

Basically it's a poorly designed game made by amateurs that have no experience designing games like this and use poor memory management when problems like this were solved more than a decade ago.

This post was edited by zorzin on Jul 22 2023 04:02pm

They dont even know how to index correctly

lmfao

thats database 101

literally the first course in college

people wondered why diablo 2 system was so complicated. because it worked. well. (minus the duping, we dont talk about that)

This post was edited by Crunkt on Jul 22 2023 04:14pm

There was a lot more wrong with the diablo 2 system than duping, rose-colored glasses
Diablo 2 was still the GOAT though

my fav part was in a brevik interview where he said to combat dupes, that's why they created the selling of sojs to npc stuff. i lol'd hard

he said it jokingly, but still funny nonetheless

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Jul 22 2023 04:24pm