Originally Posted by Spleener
It's not that they don't plan on making bags bigger, it's just that there's a limit on how fast they can scale available player storage space. If everyone can suddenly get 40 slot bags, higher pop servers are going to run out of storage space real quick. Scale it slowly so that the highest-cap bag grows by 2 slots per expansion and the amount of server space taken up by item data won't outscale the server's total storage space.
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ItemID+EnchantID+a line or two in a log somewhere with how the item was acquired = a couple of bytes. Lets be generous and say 1kilobyte of data is stored per item once you include all the logs.
Thus, adding an extra 500 slots per player is 500 kilobytes of data. Assuming you have 10 million players with 1 character each, that's a mere 4.65 terabytes. I saw a deal for a 1TB drive for $150 yesterday so we'll say that's the price each.
In other words, they'd have to add an extra $1000 worth of hard drives to all their servers worldwide to accomodate this huge capacity increase.
$1000.
Technical limitations / storage concerns are not the problem whatsoever, and never will be.