Stash
A Stash is a Chest or Storing Place where a player can store items and gold. It is an Important function in the Diablo Franchise, since Item collecting is a big part of the game.
Jay Wilson confirmed at BlizzCon 2008 that we will see stashes in Diablo III [1]. In a recent interview [2], Jay has revealed that the stash starts out small, but can be upgraded by the player (for an unknown cost), which ends up being huge, around two-thirds of the screen.
The D3 Team has confirmed that there will be some way to transfer items between characters on the same account. This may or may not be done via a shared stash.
There has also been talk of finally implementing a Shared Stash. Finding and collecting items is a big part of the Diablo franchise but storing and transferring those items has always been an issue. Jay Wilson spoke to this problem in BlizzCast Episode 5, August 2008. [3]
- "Jay Wilson: ...we really want to make it easier for you to be able to share and trade items with other people and other characters on the same account. We’ve talked about ideas like a shared stash, or a mail system like World of Warcraft has, and we haven’t nailed down exactly which one of those we want to do, but we’re definitely going to do something like that, that’s going to make it really easy for you if you’ve got, a Witch Doctor and a Barbarian character, and you find that awesome Witch Doctor drop and you want to share it, it’ll be super-easy to do that."
- Bashiok: so in other words, I won’t have to worry about my game closing after...
- Jay Wilson: No, no more opening up a game, dropping items on the ground, and you know, hoping that the game stays open or getting a friend to help out, no more of that. You should be able to do it on your own.
July 2010
The system remained undeveloped nearly two years later, as Bashiok explained in a forum post in July 2010. [4]
- "No update, it’s something we hope to do, it’s not designed or in any sort of implementation phase so until we reach that point and either hit a revelation of it working or not we won’t know for sure. But yes, still hope to have some sort of easy way to share between characters. “Drop games are dumb.” - Bashiok"
August 2010
Jay Wilson spoke again about the shared stash at Gamescom in August, 2010. [5]
- Including a shared stash in Diablo III is, I think, everyone’s first choice. A shared stash is very easy to deal with for the player, and having it in the game creates a nice common area where characters can gather in a game. It does create a few problems, though. For one thing, it really encourages players to mule items on multiple characters. Which may just be something we have to deal with. Players who like to mule really like doing it. We kind of feel, well, we wish you didn’t have to mule. We wish there was a better way to store away spare items.
October 2010
In Blizzcon 2010's Open Q&A Panel, RichterLocke from DiabloWiki asked if they had decided whether or not to implement a shared stash. After some hesitation, Jay Wilson finally confirmed it: "Yes, and that's Blizzcon-exclusive by the way."
