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Stop the cheap knock-off mini-pets!

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Stop the cheap knock-off mini-pets!

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jgelling
07.05.2012 , 02:57 PM | #21
I totally agree: game does NOT need generic "mini"-pets!

Game needs more HUGE fel-guard:

http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/imag...g_Felguard.jpg

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Urael
07.05.2012 , 02:58 PM | #22
Quote: Originally Posted by jgelling View Post
I totally agree: game does NOT need generic "mini"-pets!

Game needs more fel-guard:

http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/imag...g_Felguard.jpg
In that case I want a full sized Rancor!!

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SabaccPlayer
07.05.2012 , 03:04 PM | #23
Quote: Originally Posted by jgelling View Post
I totally agree: game does NOT need generic "mini"-pets!

Game needs more HUGE fel-guard:

http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/imag...g_Felguard.jpg
They have these...they're called "Companions".

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jgelling
07.05.2012 , 03:10 PM | #24
Quote: Originally Posted by SabaccPlayer View Post
They have these...they're called "Companions".
Companions are really high-maintenance. And they don't go back to hell when I tell them to.. They just keep hanging around the ship waiting for their chance to mess up an hour-long crafting mission.

Full size colorful pets (or mounts) FTW.

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maxetius
07.05.2012 , 03:11 PM | #25
Mini pets are SRS BSNS. Bioware needs to SOP! Immediately!

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Icebergy
07.05.2012 , 03:14 PM | #26
Bioware could hand out $20 bills and people would still find something to complain about.
Unsubscribed due to no new Operations.
I am happy that there will be a renewed focus on story, I love story, its why I picked this MMO. But I picked an MMO, not an episodic single player RPG that I have to pay a subscription to receive the episodes.

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SabaccPlayer
07.05.2012 , 03:16 PM | #27
Quote: Originally Posted by jgelling View Post
Companions are really high-maintenance. And they don't go back to hell when I tell them to.. They just keep hanging around the ship waiting for their chance to mess up an hour-long crafting mission.

Full size colorful pets (or mounts) FTW.
rofl!

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SabaccPlayer
07.05.2012 , 03:19 PM | #28
Quote: Originally Posted by Icebergy View Post
Bioware could hand out $20 bills and people would still find something to complain about.
If they gave me enough $20 bills to make up for my CE and my initial six month sub, I would not.

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DjDemix
07.05.2012 , 03:19 PM | #29
Quote: Originally Posted by Urael View Post
No no .. he's "Super Cereal".
I believe you mean "Super Serial".

It's not "Cereal" like the breakfast food. It's "Serial" as in "Serious".

BTW, I'm super serial about this common mistake bothering me. I am mad, brother.

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Kharnis
07.05.2012 , 03:22 PM | #30
Quote: Originally Posted by SabaccPlayer View Post
Gotta say...the whole mini-pet thing just cracks me up!!

Vanity/mini-pets were such a singular hallmark of WoW that they've even decided to add a mini-game to make them useful, which many WoWers are complaining about as Pokemon-esque.

Now SWTOR has mini-pets...about the single most un-Star Wars-y thing I've ever seen. LOVED 'em in WoW...HATE 'em here...If you're gonna do pets, do droids, or SOMETHING Star Wars-y. Imagine Luke, or Han, or Anakin or whoever with a little tauntaun pet following them around?!?! The closest the movies came to that was the Ewoks.

And with them, SWTOR is now creating another dilemma...for some, the vanity pets are just going to be a reminder of how SWTOR is a WoW knockoff with a Star Wars skin. For others, like me, it will be "What the HECK do vanity pets have to do with Star Wars?"

Eventually, if and when SWTOR decides to make a mini-game out of these pets, I hope all the current WoW hating, SWTOR loving folks will have the cojones to admit that WoW did it first, and not leap to bash WoW but defend SWTOR.
Rift has mini-pets. So will GW2. So does Aion. So did GW1. Calling mini-pets a "hallmark of WoW" and that any game who does it is a "WoW knockoff" is woefully ignorant of what's actually out there.
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