I read a lot of explanations online about the Battlepets changes. And I keep thinking, “how come they didn’t just add future-proof enchantment you can add to a piece of gear, that you can rebuy for battlepet tokens, that allows you to earn battlepet drops. Like for example, the drop rate for battlepet rewards is abysmal for pvp. I remember back when I trying to get the Tamer Tabard, and I barely got anything after 100 pvp battles.
Boon of the Zookeeper
literally already existed, why won’t they just give us that again, but remove the restrictions. People would be more inclined to participate in pet battles if they could also do OTHER content and passively farm battlepet supplies.
I feel like with modern dev teams, they absolutely refuse to add quality of life stuff that could save a game or mechanic. It’s truly sturbborn. It makes me question if the people managing these things actually play their own game or are even aware of things that ALREADY exist, that could have made it easier for player retention. Like even with the housing update, how come pets can’t roam the property, it’s not like they can’t add a limit to it? I wanted chickens roaming my property. You will see exactly that in Elwynn, how come we cannot do it also?
How come they haven’t added a Battle-Stone that upgrades to Legendary Quality for people who have completed hard Battlepet content, like the Celestial Tournament, PvP Achievements, the Dungeons. I’m sure pet battles will become easier. They could even balance it to where you could only have one legendary on a team at a time, or only ONE of all your pets can be Legendary. So a one time achievement. Especially since in the overworld a lot of Master Trainers literally have like one legendary. At least I think so? It’s so odd to me.
Battling is literally MY THING, I grew up playing Pokémon and was immediately drawn to Battlepets! My Garrison would be literally full of them, and I loved being able to farm stuff with the Worgen lady outside my door. How come they wont add her to the housing areas huh? Like it was never about collecting for me, even with Pokemon, I dont care for the collecting aspect, it was the battling that I loved. But without future content for pet battling, what’s the point? It was truly one of those ways to play the game where I could have fun and avoid the toxic cesspools of raiding, pvp, etc, and do my own thing while still being part of the world. I mean the battlepet storylines were awesome and it still made me feel like I had a role to play and impact. But seeing that be traded off just so it can become a collector fest, it kinda stings considering collector greed is why trading card games in the real world, has become less fun for me. I wanna battle, I wanna be the very best, that no one ever was, not shove a bunch of cats in my house and call it a day. (Didn’t even bother adding the Battlepet trophies from Garrison to the housing system)