I thought it would be because they put in a ton of effort in building the entire system, it was going to become a permanent addition to the game. However, at 1:49:00 on Kripps stream VOD from yesterday, a battleground designer comes in and he answers some questions on the stream. He said it seems like it’s is only a temporary inclusion. Verbatim his words here, “We’ll probably remove it to make room for new stuff.” With no definitive time frame for when that would happen.
It would really awful to have all this effort go into the system and it only is temporary, considered a gimmick like the Darkmoon Faire cards. That system wasn’t something they put a ton of effort into though and it was understandable it wasn’t a permanent addition. However, the buddies are 75 new minions, some of the biggest changes they did. Some heroes are going to feel a lot better playing with their buddies and then ripping that away will make them be worse heroes again. And if that’s only temporary and soon we will lose this in a few months or whenever the next big patch for Battlegrounds is that just sounds disappointing and frustrating.
I think a lot of the additions too BGs are just experiments for them and I don’t think they are too concerned with balance and gameplay per say. They just want to see how it will effect the game. Just a thought.
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It’s not that they are gimmicky, it’s just they are a new thing to shake things up. At some point they will want to add other new things and in order to avoid increasing the difficulty of this mode, they will scrap previous additions.
And while I do find the buddies pretty cool, a good chunk of them aren’t really inspired. Like the Deathwing and Pyramad buddies…
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It’s like new expansions and card rotations in standard. You can’t only add stuff or the game gets too unwieldy and it becomes too hard to keep our unfair synergies.
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I understand from one point, they need to make game fresh from time to time. BG became stale. I don’t mind if they make something like rotation in BG and try to reinvent the mode from time to time.
battleground buddies? what did I miss?
They’ll eventually have to consider opening up different BGs formats, one with/for each gimmick (faire format, buddy format, etc.).
Or not, they are free to throw their effor into the trash, would not be the first time.
It might be for good that they remove it
Imagine reno and cookie being tier ultra super S+++ forever