Introducing the Fragment Stash Tab!

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MackBesmirch wrote:

Love this; thanks, GGG!

As for the "can't this be added to existing tabs" folks, consider the players who collect them and sell them or save them up and do a bunch of runs. Not everyone uses them as they obtain them.

And the Currency, Map, & Essence tabs are a good value. 5000 in each stack? A Quad tab is twice the price of a Currency tab. You'd need 9 Quad Tabs to equal the slots of just one 5000 unit stack of currency. Yeah, yeah, but one does not buy a Quad tab for CURRENCY, duh... I bring it up though, as those of us who have been playing since Open Beta remember what it was like trying to save currency in conventional stash slots -- the Currency Tab is definitely worth 75 points if not more.

If you don't like it, don't buy it -- play the game for free. But some of us who love the game and also support it appreciate reasonably balanced choices in how we spend our money. I like that fragments are thematically separate from regular currency and maps. And considering how grindy ARPGs are as a genre, and the fact that Chris said in the video that the fragment tab would be expanded to include any new fragments in the future... I think this is a nice thing to offer us and a fair value compared to the existing tabs. Remember, the Currency Tab was smaller when it first launched and now has been expanded twice with no additional charge to those of us who bought it early on.

One comment said it's "greedy" of GGG to make a fragment stash tab... Hey, now, turn that around. I think it's "greedy" a player wants to play a free game and yet also get all those bulk fragment slots crammed into an already crowded currency tab. Well... Greedy or Cheap. How many hours have you spent in this game? Ever pay $80 for a game whose playtime is only 40 hours? This game is FREE to play. Consider how much time you've spent in PoE and think about how that compares to how much you have financially supported it. Offering us something OPTIONAL that is NEW to purchase is not "greed" ... it is staying in business. Get over yourself.

My only gripe and request of the Fragment Tab, however, would be to make the Breach fragments 5000 and allow us to upgrade them to Breachstones 100 at a time... like how in the Essence Tab you can have 100 of one tier and get to decide when and how many times you do the 3-at-a-time upgrade.

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TheInsanitarium wrote:

Not for nothing, but no one is forcing anyone to buy anything.

It has been said plenty of times, but PoE is a free game. You can complete all the content without paying a cent. That, added with the fact this isn't a 'pay-to-win' game (which I truly appreciate), is pretty impressive this day-in-age.

Please remember that these are optional upgrades, some being purely cosmetic (xmog) while others are Quality of Life (stash tab upgrades, char slots).

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Krazlam wrote:

It's funny how everyone says it should have been part of the map or currency stash tab, but give little to no reasoning to why.

Some people stated it just makes sense, it's more consistent, or because they're maps. But they aren't. Maps are a specific type of item that you may augment in order to manipulate your next encounter or dungeon. Fragments lead to specific predetermined encounters that you cannot augment in any way (Though, it would be insane to sextant shaper's realm or fight a corrupted version of uber atziri).

They're not currencies either, since currencies in this game have innate crafting properties, which fragments do not.

Arguably, Offering to the Goddess and Divine Vessels don't fit in the "fragments" theme in any way, but I'm not one to complain about extra stuff in my favor.