Hey there’s something fun when you dig into the quotes there:
Zantai: I thought I’ve been pretty blunt about a possibility of a gdx3, hah. All things considered, FG did very well, but it just doesn’t make sense for the team and for the game to bloat things with a third expansion. A 10th mastery would just blow up items.
(yeh I dunno how you smartly quote parts of topics)
So while I don’t really have a stake in stash expansion or not (I use IA and mostly lament the lack of an ingame bestiary with moar lore), it seems that even years ago it was known that another expansion would present these issues.
Maybe the expansion won’t add too many items, but mostly allow you to play with existing ones? (affixes etc)
Or maybe there’ll be something done.
There’s also the new engine updates which seem to have rekindled desire for more content… or vice-versa. Anyway it’s great.
I always try to remember that most players are not insane hoarders like others are. I enjoy having thousands and thousands of items in IA, possibly others won’t. Good thing is that there’s allegedly a significant overlap between players who enjoy having thousands of hours and items, and players who are willing to mod their game - it’s true that it’s not a solution for everyone though.
I trust our boxed overlords to come up with amazing stuff anyway.