Some of those would be nice. Others would just bloat the hell out of the system. Pet battles aren't even an afterthought to Blizzard anymore. They didn't take off like they were expecting it to and the vast majority of the player base completely ignores it. This would be a whole lot of time and money expenditure dumped into a feature they already consider mostly a failure (for an example of a feature they consider a complete failure, look at Archeology.) Blizzard themselves wouldn't want to do it, let alone Activision authorizing it.Also, I take offense at the "Music fidelity has improved since" line, like we don't have plenty of great music from the game's initial release onward. Clearly whoever wrote that line doesn't understand that the pet battle music is from WarCraft 2. Those tracks were well-known back in the day and adding them (or rather slightly modified versions of the MIDI originals) were intentional and a nice throwback.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGl4slGxY8UAnd it's so well-regarded it's been covered by orchestras both amateur and professional multiple times, as well as being included as one of the selected works for Video Games Live concerts. So yeah, implying it's low-fidelity and crappy offends me.https://youtu.be/yS-1UPNBUWA?t=12
Please blizz, dont bring this ever into game... thx :D
This will never come to furition past has shown that when a fan makes some sort of thing for to improve the game blizzard puts their own spin on it which is nowhere near close what people asked.
Damn, that's hella impressive. Even just few of these would get me to pet battle again.
I couldn't think of a worse use of dev time. Pet battles would still be dead, maybe this will revive it for a couple months at most? and that's only the small handful of people who actually like this crap. Not worth it.
just leave wow and play some pokemon game...
Seems too much like Pokémon Go with some of the things listed here.
This is amaaaaaaaaaazing! Hope Blizzard listens
Oof. This would make me want to play even less, lol. I like pet collecting, but I oddly don't care for pokemon.
What I want :Epic quality pets cosmetic (meaning : zero boost in stats between blue and purple). Which can be done with news stones or increased rarity with xp (see above in the post for the xp/rarity). I'd like a long goal to keep me busy in Battle pet, but without HAVING to do it, if you give stats boost, everyone will have to do it, and might not like it, so put it like an "opt-in" system. And maybe 3 legendary stones (purely cosmetic) for my favorite team / pet which could be won via a tournament / big boss or other. But only purple would be fine ! To be fair, the training points in the post would keep me busy, and the trading wild pets seems fun
I only play battle pets because pets are locked behind the system .:( I don't think I'd want that much more to-do to get more pets, but I understand others like this more than me.
By Elune, please do not add gear slots. Collecting pets and leveling them is time consuming enough. But do add the ability to improve and change stats like Pokemon X/Y had. Other than gear, everything else would be a welcome change. Great enthusiastic ideas!
This is an extremely well thought-out article, thank you for sharing and all of the hard work you put into it.
Even just some of this list would be amazing. The whole list would blow pet battling wide open and make it a massively cool part of the game. Great list for us to dream about, thank you!
I did not realize people loved this feature of the game so much lol