An observation, a rant, and a question.

I was trying to organize my mules to get ready for ladder reset and I have a hoarding problem. 20 years of LOD meant that I kept everything that dropped because drops were so bad. Seriously, I never completed Immortal King or

Tal Rasha's, now I have two copies of both and IK gloves and

Boots are now throwaway items I see them so often. In The Disciple set I only found

Laying of Hands, now I leave anything from the set (except the amulet) on the Ground or drop in the FREE4U lobby games. I noticed something similar in uniques. It feels to me that D2R has much better drop rates on a lot of items, which I appreciate. Score one for Good Blizzard.

In the process of organizing I was griping about the 24 character limit so I did a little digging. My single player .d2s files are only 1kb to 4kb per character. Since a characters only require the .d2s file (the others can be generated), a single terabyte can store over 250 million of those characters. I searched for player numbers and found that the current player base is about 53,000 and the total subscribers is about 5 million. If Blizzard were cruel and required regular login, then the 53,000 active players could have each have over 4,500 characters. For the total subscribers a single terabyte could give each of us over 50 characters. A terabyte drive on Amazon right now is less than $100 USD. Even if the storage needs per character were double, the total storage required for all of our characters is very small. For the cost of what Blizzard spends on coffee in a day, we can all have our character limits doubled without charging us a dime. We aren't limited by storage capacity, we are limited by Blizzard's decisions. Score one for Bad Blizzard.

My searching for player counts ended up on an auction site so I checked it out for kicks and was blown away. The site I found was charging $50 USD for a 1-40 character leveling service. 1-90 was over $80. I was doing that for free for people. Are there actually people paying for leveling? The site reported some numbers on how many order and they had 38,000+ on the 1-40. That's almost $2 million. Why am I working for a living if there is that kind of money in this?

For the record, I'm not quitting my job for the pipe Dream of being a paid Gamer. I just wonder if people are really paying for that, and how much money is actually being spent. However, I might start charging people for power leveling though. I could up it from free to

Chipped Gems.

Hello, with new d2r, you probably need to adjust your keep policy. Basically, except upgrade full and the g face you are using, you might consider throw everything out. Imm 136 gloves, perfect

Tal Rasha, and some perfect things that is so hard to achieve. Those thing combine, you dont need 100 space.
Exclude something you are using and those should be limit to 100 space, you will need only 100 space for secondary replacement items.
Sell all unused but good condition item to market... if market doesnt take it , even with several

Perfect Amethyst, it usually means you should vendor it.
If you organize it well, you should have 9 char of space.

The other way is just buy another account to store it and dont organize at all.
"if small money can resolve problem, it is not problem at all"

I recently approve this way, there are some way that people will sell their d2r account cheap. In my case, I was having many friend that play d2r and they are not playing them today. I pay a lunch to get their account, it can be Mcdonald or something home-cooked. Of course they might have something looks valuable for people still play today, but for them , no , it is 0 value , not worth more than a cheap lunch.

instead farming day and night, I prepare a lunch for my ex-player friend and gathering around.

The remaining content that

Attract me is only low-lv play and I dont play much of it, everything else is like repeat-task.