Minion Battles!

Yes, although this is ripped straight from WoW, please don't bite my head off about it.

But! I loved Minions Battles! You could level them up and que battles online with people. It gave more value and worth to minions and collecting, while currently their just for vanity. I think this would be a great addition to use with the Duty Finder. Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by ZeroRains

Yes, although this is ripped straight from Pokemon, please don't bite my head off about it.

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Fixed. Would be fun, though. I usually did this kinda stuff on the weekends when I had nothing left raid-wise and such lol.

Considering Minions were stated by Yoshi himself to be useless and just to give a goal to casual players, that adds too much content to something that serves no purpose and would then force people to collect minions who never cared for them if the content offered rewards that's fairly decent.

So it would be fun, but it goes against his design philosophy. If they add in an enhanced version of Monstrosity or Panrakton from FFXI (Precedence in FF MMOs) then it would be a pretty fun system.

I would love to see minion battles, personally. If they added some to the world like WOW did, it would give people a reason to explore the world again. Also, they could have weekly/month tournaments as part of the Golden Saucer when it lands.

Tupsi: It wouldn't force anyone to do anything. I mean, I hate PVP and I don't participate at all. But, that doesn't mean I dislike that it's in the game or that PVPers may get special rewards.

More varied content > less varied content.

People just want so badly for those little cosmetic nothings to mean something.

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Originally Posted by DefendPopPunk

People just want so badly for those little cosmetic nothings to mean something.

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Its the primary reason of keeping old content still relevant. From a business aspect it keeps the users doing something more than just the new content and burning through it. Vanity Gear is a great example. If your bored or want to mix and match your outfit, you can try to farm that specific look from a old dungeon, which without that no one would most likely do unless their new. Any way they can tie in vanity into something worthwhile and fun is better than /afk piece that has a nice shimmer.

Did you all know of you put a kitten minion next to the pup they fight one another? It's cute.

I think it would be fun if you could bring minions inside dungeons.

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Originally Posted by BozoBlanco

I think it would be fun if you could bring minions inside dungeons.

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They got rid of that thankfully. It was annoying as all hell targeting people's minions while you're trying to target enemies lol.

You can disable targeting minions, more annoying would be if you get hit by a boss mecanic because you were staring at the minion lol.

No... Just no.

Yes, just yes! Minion battles would be epic. Minions content in personal housing would be epic. Minion content in gold saucer would be epic. Minions in a dungeon would be fail.

this would awesome. it be like a game within a game that has no bearing on the main game, but could still server as a good gil sink or something =D

All battles would be won by people that spent $60 on chibi-bahamut.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Considering Minions were stated by Yoshi himself to be useless and just to give a goal to casual players, that adds too much content to something that serves no purpose and would then force people to collect minions who never cared for them if the content offered rewards that's fairly decent.

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Except, if they actually copied WoW properly in this area, the only rewards that minion battles would give would be more minions. Not everything needs to have progression styled rewards, sometimes fun is just fun.

I believe Yoshida commented on this once and said something along the lines of "Would you rather see two wind-up cursors fighting or magitek battles?" in regards to developmental resources.

It would be neat, though I wonder how the mechanics will work. Will you have direct control amd gcd? Or will they just attack automatically?

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Originally Posted by Nikita

I believe Yoshida commented on this once and said something along the lines of "Would you rather see two wind-up cursors fighting or magitek battles?" in regards to developmental resources.

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Yoshida says a lot of things, almost every bit of it is hype. He tells about how great things will be, he teases how much use a feature will get and then because we only have PR speak to go off of, the end product is almost always nothing like what he tried to sell us.