Hirelings are removed from the game

[porkchorp]

Turbine has removed hireling vendors...


What do you think would happen?

More grouping?

[Sharktopus]

What do you think would happen?

More grouping?

Turbine would sell more cake.

[HastyPudding]

People would *gasp* learn to be more self-sufficient.

But overall, I think there would be more grouping and parties, sure. There would also be fewer barbarians and longer wait times to do some quests.

[moomooprincess]

Yes, you would have to group again so there would be more LFMs.

But I think the Djinni is out of the bottle and it can't be put back in.

[Uska]

I would do,the snoopy dance

[porkchorp]

I would do,the snoopy dance

Me too. my first month of playing I used to think hires were awesome.

Now I think they are cancer.

[Rykka]

What do you think would happen?

More grouping?

Don't care.

But yeah, more grouping. Also more whining about "having" to wait for a healer. More whining about being excluded from a group for not having a self-healing destructobuild.

[porkchorp]

Don't care.

But yeah, more grouping. Also more whining about "having" to wait for a healer. More whining about being excluded from a group for not having a self-healing destructobuild.

Thanks for caring enough to reply :P

I totally see your point about whining. I think there would actually be more cool people to group with. Maybe the socially shy would come out of the solo zone.

[Rykka]

Yes, you would have to group again so there would be more LFMs.

But I think the Djinni is out of the bottle and it can't be put back in.

Develloper's message: Hirelings are broken. We're looking into it.

[porkchorp]

I have a friend that will summon a cleric to both a static group that has a cleric, druid. Always tries to summon one in pugs... AND he is the paladin!

[slarden]

What do you think would happen?

More grouping?

Doubtful. I rarely even use hirelings, but I am sure bad things would come from it.

[PermaBanned]

What do you think would happen?

• I wouldn't have to repost my LFM after someone silently pops a hire, there by closing it.

• Less lag as the Server isn't trying to figure out "Just W.. T.. F.. is that thing supposed to be vs trying to be vs actually is doing?"

• Moar popcorn threads!!11!1!

[porkchorp]

Doubtful. I rarely even use hirelings, but I am sure bad things would come from it.

Besides the initial shock. What bad things do you think would happen?

[Rykka]

Thanks for caring enough to reply :P

I totally see your point about whining. I think there would actually be more cool people to group with. Maybe the socially shy would come out of the solo zone.

I only don't care because I'm on a kick to not use them. I don't like using them. I don't care if others do. It's their thing. I don't judge what they choose to run. Since there's rarely more than 2-3 PCs in any group I do it's not an issue.

But I do tend to run with raise scrolls, always raise fallen allies, so it balances out.

I did pop a hire last night but it was to provide addl support to a rogue, I was running a PM.

[Kawai]

well...

1. Forums would blow up w/same peops crying about champions thread investing their time into zOMG IM GETTING TWO SHOT WITHOUT A HIRELING!!!!!!!
2. LFMs labelled NEED HEALER again. At least until everyone figures out how useless they were in the first place.
3. Forums would blow up w/same peops RageQuitting DDO. --Again.
4. Hireling Vendors @Market now slinking around back alleys selling contraband.
5. Forums would blow up w/ same previous RageQuitters now returning & asking "Hey, whats new?"
6. Larafay Do'rret pops a Jartina Sartosa & solo's EE in other games looking for work.
7. life returns to normal.

[Qhualor]

What do you think would happen?

More grouping?

some of the casuals and the soloists would flip out.

more dependency on other players.

loss of up to 30% xp in some quests you are used to getting solo.

loss of accounts causing Turbine to lose money.

less money spent on store hires means less money in Turbines wallet.

bridge protest? nah, lots and lots of popcorn threads.

[Faltout]

People that need to solo things because of their real life, would complain because they will no longer be able to complete quests that require lever pulling etc. and thus cancel the devs' statement that they want the game to be also able to be played solo (at lower difficulties and not talking about raids).

[Uska]

I have a friend that will summon a cleric to both a static group that has a cleric, druid. Always tries to summon one in pugs... AND he is the paladin!

Must be a wimpy paladin never need any hirelings for me from lvl 1 on

[soreslands]

people would learn to be better at the game sure lots of people would quit turbine would lose money and insane amounts of rage on the forums meaning this will probably never happen (turbine losing money is a big no i believe) but in time the game would be better for all who remained

[MacRighteous]

Exclusively solo player here - I don't use hires for anything but lever pulling - and even then, only when I'm too lazy to dual log, removing hires from the game would affect me little and it certainly would not force me to group. It's not that I'm "socially shy" - I'm just done with MMO grouping for a variety of reasons but mainly because kobold hates you and so do I. ~jk