/popcorn - the daily deals and microtransaction thread

Radiant Footprints effect 40% off - 95 points.

Ivory Weapon effect 35% off - 45 points.

Black Cat pet 43% off - 85 points.

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Dreggon wrote:

Black Cat pet 43% off - 85 points.

10 points better than the May 16th Black Cat sale. Nice!

Premium Stash Tab Bundle 17% off - 165 points.

Given that post-league Remove Only tabs (NOT race rewards) automatically transfer to any new stash tabs purchased, randomly, I think I'm gonna have to take a pass. ='[.]'=

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Raycheetah wrote:

Given that post-league Remove Only tabs (NOT race rewards) automatically transfer to any new stash tabs purchased, randomly, I think I'm gonna have to take a pass. ='[.]'=

Aw, hell, what? It never did that before and I liked that it didn't. My tabs are a disorganised mess, I don't need that to become worse.

Oh yes 4-day stash tab sale.

Since I always clean up my RO-Tabs right away, I am gonna take that Discount. Thanky you very much. :D

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Dreggon wrote:

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Raycheetah wrote:

Given that post-league Remove Only tabs (NOT race rewards) automatically transfer to any new stash tabs purchased, randomly, I think I'm gonna have to take a pass. ='[.]'=

Aw, hell, what? It never did that before and I liked that it didn't. My tabs are a disorganised mess, I don't need that to become worse.

Join the Path of Disillusion group. You'll need to get in line behind me though.

 I first realized the huge "ocean sized" problem (yes GGG, for one of your techs using the analogy of a problem being compared to "crossing a ditch" or "crossing an ocean" in difficulty to solve I will forever use that metaphor) on July 5th (eastern standard time, USA) to see what quantity of RO (remove-only) tabs I now have in Standard League. Then after a short time the light bulb went on over my head and the ramifications of this:

Chris stated:

"We recently made a change where the contents of a remove-only tab are automatically moved into a new stash tab as one is purchased. This was primarily to fix a technical problem, but happens to also help users who purchase a lot of stash tabs when challenge leagues end and don't want to have to move the items across one at a time."

hit me in the forehead (sadly it was not a V8 moment). What GGG has done to solve some kind of race stash tab problem:

Christ stated in an email reply:
"Thanks for the mail!

The core problem here is how our stash code works. There's no way to choose which tab is upgraded, which causes a problem in some circumstances where users can receive an unlimited number of stash tabs (without having to do any races). The change to how the stash tab purchases work (where it increases your entitlement of real tabs, rather than forcibly generating a real one each time) was to fix that. We're not really concerned with people using remove-only tabs as long-term storage like they have been doing.

I'm not completely happy with the solution and want to find a better one.

Kind regards,
Chris"
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has forever (as the PoE forum grape vine is hinting that GGG will not change it back, probably because of the other technical problem that GGG can't code a solution to) destroyed the ability to buy a stash tab bundle when on sale (as it is today) and have 6 new and empty stash tabs added to your stash.

 I'm working through a particularly messy bought of consolidation and downsizing of my Standard League stash (I hate anyone who calls that league scrubcore). It would be nice if I could buy another 6 premium tabs today and get my total which is currently 30 normal + 68 RO tabs (had 78 RO but eliminated 10 last night) expanded to 36 normal tabs. But no, oh no, GGG has to go and screw it all up because their programmers can't code themselves out of the technical problem that Chris talks about but doesn't explain very well (how can players receive an unlimited number of stash tabs without having to do any races? WTF?) and thus we are totally screwed in the purchasing of additional storage space.

 I have to laugh at this tragedy (I'll rage quit if I don't) over this mess. But wait, it gets worse. Look at what Chris said in the email reply to another player about this change:

We're not really concerned with people using remove-only tabs as long-term storage like they have been doing.

WOW... double WOW... even triple WOW!!!!

Let that sink in for a moment. GGG does not have a problem with me keeping my four month league stash as long term storage. Great so far, but then by the very nature of the change in the way newly purchased stash tabs are activated 6 of my "long-term storage" remove-only tabs are going to be converted to normal tabs. So 6 tabs will no longer be "long-term" storage tabs anymore after I buy a bundle of them. Hold on one more time PoE loyalists, here's another big "WTF GGG!" moment:

"There's no way to choose which tab is upgraded"

GGG, true to their RNG loving ways, is going to randomly pick a block of 6 RO tabs and make them normal tabs. That's another WTF are you doing to us GGG rage thought! Some of my Ambush League stash tabs were 100% full and now are Standard League RO tabs. So you, GGG, in your infinite "all things RNG" way are going to pick which 6 RO tabs become normal tabs. So I could get some of my 90% to 100% full RO tabs (that GGG is on record as ok to keep as long term storage) made into normal storage tabs when I buy any.

Wow, Chris is being 2 faced here, has been caught in the middle of this mess, and as per the GGG norm will probably stay completely mute over this fiasco and we won't get an official response or any fix that would take us back to the way it was when buying a stash tab meant getting a new additional tab added to our stash.

What a total FU mess you have created GGG!!! You sure have ruined stash tab purchasing. I have to take a huge pass on today's sale because of this mess.


NOTE: We all should either Feedback post or email technical support over this to protest just how big a problem this is and that a swift resolution going back to the way it was is needed.