Dev Blog - April 1st - Minion battles

[Felis]

I can't appreciate it. On one hand, simply because I've no interest in pokémon battles. On the other, elaborate jokes like this teasing us with content that would potentially be awesome, and then have nothing of it actually implemented... not a good feeling. Last year's favour system also sounded awesome... and of course it didn't happen. At all. In any way, shape or form.

It don't sound like Pokemon battles. I mean Pokemon is not a RTS.

[Altijacek]

Make. This. Happen.

[Gunspec]

Ok, now we need to push for the wind-up Viangaa. Please make that ugly abomination a real thing, I want it so badly. Put an April Fools event into the game, I don't care, just give me it.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

Watch this actually be a thing in 5 years...

I give 'em 2 years until the Viangaa minion actually ends up being either in the mog station store or as a seasonal/special event item.

[Bluevann]

I wouldn't see this happening anyway because some minions are accessible only through real money purchase (OST minions, cash shop minions). It'd turn into a pay-to-win if they had actual battle content parameters.

[Quintalian]

ARE. YOU. KIDDING.

You are, and that's the hell of the thing. I'm beside myself right now. There was a thread about this very thing some months back. I intensely want this to be actual, real, playable content down the road.

Hm. Yoshi-P did slip in a real piece of news among the fake posts last year, but this... it sounds too good to be true.

[reillyblair]

this in the gold saucer the catch is the winner keeps both minions *EG*

[Remus]

I still find it funny how they think of these cool ideas which people would like and make it a April Fools joke. Instead they invest in other features which people don't like that much and is pretty brain numbing (hunts im looking at you). Overall good April Fools SE even though im sad this will never be a feature which I wish it was.

[Pence]

See: WoW forums.

Blizz Devs post fixes to actual broken mechanics, classes, UI etc and adds in long awaited and requested vanity changes.

All april fools.

It's more a: This is a real problem, so we fixed it for balance. LOL NUH WE DUN, play our borked game.

SE would have trolled better: 'We now allow 5 (or 6) man light parties. All DF require Tank, Heal, DPS, DPS/Support, DPS, DPS. '

[Pence]

I like this idea.

I'd never do it, however; I know many people would..much like adding more PVP content... PVE, PVE, MVM. People like it, so why not? It'll cost a raid tier? It'll cost 4 bosses in 6 months?

You are correct. SE can't even make a full raid tier in 6 months(Change this SE....change it) . Let alone fun side content.


(Yeah, I did complain about lack of raid bosses per tier despite never completing any, Mostly because not only will what I earn be undesirable next patch, but how I earn it will too)