Then, apply this new pricing scheme for real service.What makes an item in Diablo 3 good? This is the most basic gameplay issue, because Diablo 3 is a loot crawl action RPG, where half of the fun of slaughtering waves of abominations is the sweet, sweet treasure that rains from their destroyed bodies. (Half of current price) Premium stash tab may be assigned to specific charter as exclusive tab.īefore PoE will go real public service later this year, there will be an inevitable restart/wipe of characters/stashes, I guess. It comes with one additional premium stash tab.Įxtra stash tab should be inexpensive : 15 points per normal tab, 20 points for premium tab. It will have 6 normal stash tabs free.Įxtra character slot should be expensive: 100 points per character slot. This will abolish storage character and it will boot sales of expensive character slots to heavy users and sell inexpensive stash tabs more to light users.Īn example : A free account will have 6 free character slots, one per class. Reduce price of stash tab and provide more free tabs. So my suggestion: Reduce free char slots to minimum and make extra char slot expensive. Make them play PoE more and longer, then money will roll in automatically. Mostly stash sales.įully filled up stash space become play time limiting factor to some light users, which is not good for business of GGG. Ideally, revenues from char slots sale and revenues from stash tab sales should be similar amount in money value. Char slots should be scarce and expensive resource. Too many free char slots and too expensive shash tab price results in same old 'storage character syndrome' as it did in Diablo2. So it is low value resource and should not cost so expensively to sell more. Each character needs multiple stash tabs to support it. So char slot is more precious/high value resource. Many F2P RPG games limits number of character slots severely (like 5 slots per account) but provides quite large shared or per character stash space (likes of > 1000 items total) Character is hard to build and takes long time.

I find this little bit odd for online RPG game. Paying $3-$4 to store just 30 virtual weapons and armors? Thinking of $15/month subscription fee for WOW or $60 price tag of Diablo 3, it is bit expensive. On the contrary, I find 4 stash tabs too few and extra tab too expensive to light user. 24 slots are more than enough for most players, even ardent devotee of PoE, so they hardly buys extra char slots. I think that 24 free char slots are too many and extra slots too cheap.

For free PoE accounts, 24 character slots and 4 stash tabs are provided free.

Diablo 3 character slots