Originally posted by jonnin:

Originally posted by Heater:

I agree with most of that, the lack of basic inventory features is baffling. Diablo had weapon and armor slots in 97 ffs.

diablo 97 was a loot game, so every 3 second you put something into your bag. These somethings had like 10 different sizes, so making it fit was a large aggravation and you had to frequently run back to sell the junk which cost a portal scroll fee. So yes, it had an armor dummy that held your active gear, and in fact, 2 sets of weapons IIRC. But you had less bag space in practice (actual # of items held in it on the average) -- a LOT less. That is not to mention the very large 'rune' things you stow in your bag for a buff, at the cost of slots...

which I only mention because I don't think that it was better in spite of the armor dummy. Its the total capacity, not the dummy/no dummy, that is at issue here.

everyone knows that diablo 2 is the founder of the greatest gear system in gaming and all the biggest mmos has copy pasted it for decades since but everyone also agree that the storage was a problem and people kept multiple accounts to mule between multiple mule chars which substantially increased the storage cap with alot of inconvenient work between multiple accounts that also cost us money with extra cdkeys...
which inconvenient storage cap was also addressed and finally upgraded in D3 and D2R

we'll see if we'll blindly walk into the direction of pure inconvenience for 2 more years and call it early access shrugging our shoulders