Your Diablo 4 stash is tiny because a bigger one would fry your PC: 'This isn't a storage concern, it's a performance concern'

pcgamer.com:

As we all know, Diablo 4 is in desperate need of the KonMari Method. There's just too much stuff clogging up your inventory and littering the floors, and it's had players crying out for a solution since the game released. 

Blizzard has pledged to make things better in Diablo 4's upcoming 1.1.1 patch with the addition of a single extra tab in the game's stash screen—the big chest where you can store all your unneeded knick-knacks—but that's got players asking why the devs don't just add infinite stash tabs with room for infinite items. Problem solved, right?

Wrong. According to Diablo 4 associate game director Joseph Piepiora (via Gamespot), the reason Blizzard hasn't just given everyone a veritable bounty of stash slots is because doing so would slow the game to a crawl and potentially turn your PC into an RGB-festooned air fryer. 

Speaking on Twitter, Piepiora told one curious player that «When we say they are expensive what we mean is that they create a lot of memory overhead,» because whenever you «see another player in game you load them and their entire stash filled with all their items». 

«This isn’t a storage concern,» said Piepiora, «it’s a performance concern».

When we say they are expensive what we mean is that they create a lot of memory overhead. When you see another player in game you load them and their entire stash filled with all their items. This is what teams are working diligently to improve so that we can have more asap.July 22, 2023

So if you run into a player who has filled their infinite (or even just abundant) stash slots with thousands upon thousands of items, your poor PC has to do the work of loading that lucre in. The good news is that Piepiora says Diablo's teams «are working diligently to