Pet Battle System now on Beta Realms (Early Version)

Originally Posted by ScottsdaleHokie

No one's making fun of anyone. All I've said was that this was a colossal waste of development time. Instead of implementing features that would make the game better and actually brings some subscribers back, the geniuses at Blizzard come up with this garbage.

This is much better than most of the other demanded features from disgruntled players I've seen on the forums.

Let me guess, you're one of those people who think getting rid of LFR/LFD and making raid content inaccessible to casuals is going to be what brings subscribers back to WoW.

What do you care, anyway? It's obvious WoW(and Diablo) aren't for you from your recent posts. Let's not pretend that you care a wit about what Blizzard could do to bring subscribers back.

this thread will be filled with insecure children who don't realise they are already playing a game deemed by others as a childish game and that game is called world of warcraft.

I am still getting no companions in my per journal even though I have a ton of them.

You know, when the pet battle system was announced I wasn't exactly thrilled with the concept, but I certainly wasn't part of the huge outburst denouncing it. I decided I'd reserve judgement until I found out more about it. Well now that we're getting more information about it, I must say this is laughable. I would literally expect something like this from one of their April Fool's jokes.

I was expecting a quick, cheezy, battle system outside of raids and around Org/SW. I had no clue this would be such a massive Pokemon clone to the extent that I actually can travel around, track pets and battle against critters and catch them with a Pokeball (basically) I'm all for Blizzard adding more side content to do outside of raiding, professions and dailies, but this isn't what I had in mind for World of Warcraft. I sincerely hope this did not take valuable development time that could have been put towards a different idea (not just raids and 5 mans) I realise it's optional and no one will force me to do it, but I still can't believe this is where WoW is heading

There has been way too much passivity in Cataclysm, when people have few reasons to leave the cities when queued.

This is the best minigame they could have added.

Gonna be fun. I hope special companions are supported too.. Lil'Ragnaros, Core Hound Pup and maybe Grunty

Originally Posted by Tampwn

You know, when the pet battle system was announced I wasn't exactly thrilled with the concept, but I certainly wasn't part of the huge outburst denouncing it. I decided I'd reserve judgement until I found out more about it. Well now that we're getting more information about it, I must say this is laughable. I would literally expect something like this from one of their April Fool's jokes.

I was expecting a quick, cheezy, battle system outside of raids and around Org/SW. I had no clue this would be such a massive Pokemon clone to the extent that I actually can travel around, track pets and battle against critters and catch them with a Pokeball (basically) I'm all for Blizzard adding more side content to do outside of raiding, professions and dailies, but this isn't what I had in mind for World of Warcraft. I sincerely hope this did not take valuable development time that could have been put towards a different idea (not just raids and 5 mans) I realise it's optional and no one will force me to do it, but I still can't believe this is where WoW is heading

So your complaint is that the pet battle system is TOO robust and well-developed and you'd be happier with something more half-assed.

People are just upset because... eh...
I honestly don't think they know it themselves.

Petbattles is a brilliant way of giving players something to do while in a queue or just being online to chat. And will make people "travel far and wide" to snatch them all.

Originally Posted by MasterHamster

If a minigame hurts you so damn much why don't you just unsubscribe? Make the community better with your absense.

The amount of emotion caused by these new features just shows how much the game is changing from the form a lot of long-time players have enjoyed and enclosed in our hearts (dont know if there is such a saying in english). It shows how much we (i include others who are showing the same symptomes of disgust) are suffering from this new direction.

You will have to deal people who have an opinion different from yours.

Blizzard will get a few more millions subscribers with this pokemon........China loves it!!

Oh fuck yes. Hahahaaaa, God this will be awesome.

God ever day it seems people on MMO become more and more haters. OHHH they could have used the dev time for something else QQ. Like what? another raid that will be forgotten about after another tier? another stupid PVP arena? Another lame battleground? Another profession like archaeology THAT NOBODY WILL LEVEL. God with the amount of kids on this forum you would think there would be more support for this. Who cares one way or another what they spend their dev time on as long as they keep creating new things.

This is NOT !!!! Working on EUROPE SERVER! only WORK on US SERVER!

US Server = 3 Skills to learn

EU Server = 2 Skills to learn

I might try it, but so far it doesn't look very appealing to me.

You guys enjoy your Pokemon, looks like a fun little game. Meanwhile, I'll be slaying demons in D3

Can't wait to see all the bitching and whining come out of this when some pets are over powered or someone comes up with the Rogue Mage Priest equivalent. This game went from 0 to trash in no time.

pokeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemoooooon, GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL½!!!!!!!

At first I wasn't a fan of the pet battles, but now I have got to play with it a little, its quite fun. I enjoy seeking out old content areas for achievements and such, and this will make it more fun to me imo.

hey i dont mind this game one bit. i played pokemon for the longest time i think from when i was 5 or 6 up to like end of middle school and it was the shit still is but i grew out of it. maybe now my murkimus will rule the world like i intended.

LOLOL that lame shit is your new pokemon rip off game? It's gonna be even more hilarious laughing at you people with your bonsai panda's while you hunt the the pokemons. So from the great start of wow we go in to the amazing bc era and then we quickly begin going down hill in wotlk because of the p[iece of shit casuals needing every thing dumbed down from them. Then we go in to cataclysm which was nice to be honest and then continue the same lame garbage for the piece of shit casuals having trouble putting effort in to the game(Fire lands continuous nerfs anyone?) and reused maps. After all that we go in to cutsey let have a hug bonsa panda hunting pokemon? LOLOLOL.. Yeah fanboys, enjoy your extra lame game because "its the lore" and it will be a wonder why every other game will crush that garbage.

Utter trash. Waste of resources.

How about that dance studio and upgraded character models guys! oh wait...

Great, more achievements I won't have the patience to get

Looks pretty awesome though.