Pet Battle System now on Beta Realms (Early Version)

I wanna be, the very best, like no one every was!
To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause!

YES! Thank you Blizzard for revamping a part of my childhood. Rock on WoW, rock on

Originally Posted by valcrist

Sorry but i am with blizzard on this one, people need to get out and explore more instead of sitting in town for hours..

So how does this joke fix that problem considering everyone will have most of the pets they want after the first two months and they will just be sitting inside SW/Org having their little pet battles?

I am so uneasy with this pet-fighting. Especially when you consider you can fight animals like the Perky Pug, hounds, chickens... It reminds me too much of the despicable practice some people enjoy of fighting dogs in real-life. Pet fighting simply reminds me of dog fighting, I can't get past it, and I think it's a bad idea to have in the game. Also, it has nothing to do with WoW, it's just weird to tack it on like this.

Unfortunately this is bug riddled so far.
I can not use any of the 160+ pets I collected earlier.
I went out and got the four cats with a premade and these are showing up, also on my copied char.
When I try to learn a new pet with my copied char it tells me that I already know that one.

Okay, battling with a kind.
When I win it gets XP but any XP after the inital 50 does not count anymore, so after like 10 wins it's still level 1 für my critter.
Catching pets also does not work, they are just not showing up.

As for the error #132 - just make sure you are alone in the zone to have a few minutes to test...

Originally Posted by staticflare

This is a fucking stupid joke.

Bring on Guild Wars 2, I'm tired of this bullshit.

You'll most likely disappointed then since Guild Wars and Arenanet have often featured/supported minigames such as this, it's called Polymock. And considering Guild Wars 2 already includes several minigames within the major towns and outpost, I wouldn't be surprised if Polymock or a similar pet/miniture battling system will be implemented in Guild wars 2 eventually.

So 14 raid bosses and 2 new battle grounds is not enough content for them to justify creating a new mini-game? There is more end-game content in this expansion than Cata, and about as much as Wrath.

I am am very much looking forward to pokemon in wow.

My issue isn't with mini games or ideas behind content like this. My issue is with the fact that this is not creative way to spend your developement time.

When I already have a Pokemon game within my fingertips on handheld I can fire up in seconds to get superior experience to this on this front, it seems absurd I'd even want to test it out. Blizzard should try to churn in something unique mini games that fit onto the game and it's themes, instead of ripping off other things that are already so easily accessible the whole thing just gives a sensation of "Pointless"

Originally Posted by Arcano

If I'm not wrong all pets will be account bound, so the pets you use on your alts will be available in your main as well and the other way around.

Awesome man, thanks for the info.

All the QQers! Hah! You know what? This is going to be a way better time-passer than fishing (snore) while we wait for our queues/our raid to gather/Our Battleground. I mean, seriously. You're playing video game, it's not like it's high-brow entertainment. No one is cramming the pet battles down your throat, grow the fuck up.

wait so I've already collected 170 pets, but none of these will be able to battle!? battle pets and companion pets are totally different? im confused

If some aspiring mod maker out there doesn't make an addon to play Pokemon (The original Red/Blue version!) music during pet battles, I will be a very sad panda. Literally.

I think this looks great! I'm really looking forward to playing with it while just chatting with guildies, waiting for groups, etc. I can even see me logging in to do just this when I don't feel like working on anything else. I've got over 160 pets and this will give me something more to do with them! The closest we get to "using" them now is when you stumble across another collector and start pulling them out to see which one of you has the one the other really wants but just hasn't been able to obtain.

For those of you who think that this wasted raid or instance development time, I truly hope you don't think that the same team does both. It's been stated time and time again that it's different groups working on different aspects of the game. I'm sure I've even seen blue posts refuting the assertion that the pet battle team is drawing assets away from raid development (although I have no interest in launching a research project to prove it beyond doubt).

Actually, all the complaining about this reminds me of all the people who complained about the waste of time that Transmog was. Transmog turned out to be HUGE and I think this will follow its success. I understand this isn't going to appeal to a lot of people. I guarantee you there is not a single thing in WoW that appeals to 100% of the player population, but this is going to be used by a lot more than just "1% of the playerbase" I saw someone say earlier in this thread.

Also, I haven't seen it brought up much but this has the potential to create a new revenue stream for those of us that want to buy all of the shiny new mounts. One must arrive at their pet battles in style, after all!

Originally Posted by Durdanios

If some aspiring mod maker out there doesn't make an addon to play Pokemon (The original Red/Blue version!) music during pet battles, I will be a very sad panda. Literally.

THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!!!!!! They will though, I'm sure of it.

Also......Everyone and their mom is gonna use Undead and Mechanical. You'll see.

Ok, I always hear people say people were asking for NCPs to actually do something besides look cute. That's horsecrap. Pets were always something to follow you around and look cute, nothing more... well also bragging rights. They're even named Non-combat Pets. If people were requesting since 2004 for them to do something, sure they were in the vast minority and they were also not raiders or PvPers. Raiders and PvPers tend to keep their pets stashed away for some reason, usually because it crowds the screen with more crap.

Well it is a Teen title, rated T for Teen, and it's being tailored to that age group more and more with each successive expansion. I can respect that today's teenagers are more interested in Pokemon than most other things offered, afterall there's not much else for the average teenager to do in game because guilds tend to not let under 18 raid. With this they are now offering something for all the teenagers that were left out and that's a positive thing.

If they implement Animal Crossing in the future however, I'm out forever.

Originally Posted by lolitaofthevoid

No one is cramming the pet battles down your throat, grow the fuck up.

Funny, someone that will be playing a side game geared toward 12 year old's is telling people to grow up. Now that's rich!

Ya no clue how MMO got it too work :P I have none of my pet's and even when i click on one all i get is invalid pet battle team. Probably cause I have no pets that i can use after this build.

Originally Posted by ScottsdaleHokie

Funny, someone that will be playing a side game geared toward 12 year old's is telling people to grow up. Now that's rich!

I'd call a person who plays a game geared towards twelve year olds mature sooner than I would the person who makes fun of them for it.

Originally Posted by Mr. Smith

I'd call a person who plays a game geared towards twelve year olds mature sooner than I would the person who makes fun of them for it.

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.

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

Originally Posted by ScottsdaleHokie

... 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.

You know what they say about one man's trash.