You can take my addons, but pet battles too?

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Just like with archaeology, they don’t want to devote all kinds of man-hours to something few people ever touch.

It was my understanding that most people don’t even care about pet battles, except for a small portion of players who do.

As for m+ and mythic raids, well… the latter is just a scaled up version of the other raids that are already there, and I’d surmise that a decent chunk of the playerbase does at least normals or at least dips their toes into heroic, so adding a 3rd difficulty that’s scaled up slightly more isn’t that big of a chore.

M+, eeeh. While I hate it, I’m sure there’s enough people out there who at least do low keys and find it fun, way more so than those who do pet battles.

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This.

You’re either trying to find the exact pet you want, or if you don’t really want to grind stones then you’re trying to scum a blue version, hope you don’t accidentally kill the stupid thing, blah blah blah.

And also, fighting against NPCs… I don’t like downloading a ton of addons, and I don’t want to have to use addons to quickly make teams to fight NPCs, and the default UI in typical blizzard fashion just blows.

What boggles my mind is that Blizz devs supposedly play WoW themselves, and they see the ridiculously good features that 3rd party people make and put into the UI, stuff that’s a no-brainer like having pre-made teams that you just click a button, and they never went “huh, we should put that in”?

I don’t get why it takes YEARS for them to implement features that 3rd party developers have done years and years ago that people obviously like. When you go to an addon page and you see 10 million downloads for something, you’d think that should be popular enough to warrant sticking something like that in the game, but nah.

Example: A Keybind-able Random Mount function. GoGo Mount, LiteMount, etc have been around SINCE WRATH (or possibly earlier) and we STILL don’t have a Keybindable mount button last I checked (without doing something janky like putting it on a hotbar just to get one button to do that), much less one that can detect what kind of mount/ability to use for the situation.

I mean, look how long it took them to do something like Bagnon… when did they do that whole one-inventory thing again? Dragonflight? Bagnon, I’m pretty sure, was like TBC-era thing, lol.

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Because Nobully was literally talking about those 5 quests, in more than one post? JHC follow the conversation :roll_eyes:

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We have random favorite mount it’s keybindable and detects what environment ur in for type. U just have to mark favorite

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When you cancel your subscription, ensure you clearly state this in the reason your cancelling. That feedback gets looked at since it means they’re losing your money.

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This, Been sitting here for an hour reading responses. Have quit wow a few times over the years but for the vast majority have played its entire existence even before WoW. And am an avid pet collector sitting at rank 7 on Nagrand with 1622 presently, mostly blue and levelled. And it WAS the first thing I am hunting in new zones up to Kar’esh.
To say not enough people are doing this is garbage. For me its the only reason I do return when I need a wow break cause I have spent so much time and gold on my collection.

Can only encourage all the pet collectors out there to add to this thread. Give a +1 to tell Blizzard this is not archaeology, it cant just be dropped.

Edit - And how dare you blizzard sit there and get people to watch 4 hours of streamers promoting your product so they can get a battle pet to then sit back and say no one is doing it.

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Well, that’s just crazy talk.
Now is the time to panic about random information taken out of context.

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… … Ever read something from a guy with 20000+ posts, and find yourself thinking about that scene in Superman where Lex Luthor’s monkeys are going at the keyboard 24/7 in the void?

ANYWAY – Yea, it looks like pet battling is slowly going the way of Archeology, but has not quite gone the way of First Aid just yet.

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They only taking the stray dogs. The stray cats, they just catch them, spayed and neutered them, vaccinated them then released the cats back in the neighborhood.

Nobody wants pack of stray dogs roaming the neighborhood, but stray cats are okay.

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Which Superman? There’s only like, 10 of them now.

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The latest one ofc!

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If you go by a couple of sites that calculate activity, the numbers of people doing pet battles (based on achievements) is basically double the number of people doing Mythic raiding (based on the same statistics).

Double. Yet do they believe mythic raiding should be sidelined because ‘not enough people do it’?

That rationale, Ion, does not work.

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Ion doesn’t even transmog. He literally doesn’t play this game other than raid. He’s the wrong person for the job.

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There are many teams that rely on RNG, and quite a few that are immune to it.

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They did fix the broken queue for PvP pet battles, sometime in the last year or so. Now there is no bucketing for queues, just a preference for other players with similar win/loss ratios if possible (and inexperienced matched with inexperienced).

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Kinda what I’ve been thinking as well

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Dec 4, 2019 (Blackrock Depths)

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The issue is blizzard has neglected the system for years and which has resulted in lack of interest. The pvp queuing system in particular is a dogs breakfast.

If they made positive changes to it and gave some more achieves and rewards they may actually get some higher number of people playing it.

I personally loved the Legion direbeaks where you had to do their quests to unlock their equivalent mounts, why hasn’t that returned again!

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pet battles had the lowest player engagement of all the game systems. I myself havnt engaged with it since before legion. We all knew it was going to get chopped, just not when.

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Thank you! I missed that somehow. That…makes me very happy to hear. Seriously, Xun. Thanks.

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Hard doubt. Far more people engage with battle pets than engage with mythic raiding, which has long been estimated at less than 1% of all players.

How, exactly, are they measuring pet content engagement? Is that even public information?

Is it based on world quests? Achievements? Utilization of 6+ year-old pet content in previous expansions?

I’m not being antagonistic. I’m curious why anyone would say that battle pet content has the lowest player engagement of “all” game systems, when we know there are sacred pillars of this game that only get touched by 1/100 players.

And everyone has pets.

Dragons after Dark is one of the most prominent players in the battle pet community, and for very good reason. Here’s what she had to say about it, and I tend to believe her numbers.

https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66ypM4bM5k

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