Please don't "cutify" DDO...

[herzkos]

hmmm,
disagree with ya mate.
looking at the pet in the first pic (maybe it's an angle thing), it doesn't look all cute and cuddly to me.
looks more like it's gettin' ready to bite my ankle.

the second pic skews the perception quite a bit. there is a resemblance, maybe it's cause they are
both generally the same breed and white.

as others said, i would like the cosmetic pets to not be useful in dungeons and would prefer an
option to turn them off so my computer doesn't have to keep track of 50 characters in an instance and
49 pets (or 4900 pets if they hang out at doors like the artificer pets do).

[Komitulek]

show me a ranger with a squirrel pet thats NOT cute plz?

It's a killer squirrel!

With nasty, big, pointy teeth!

It makes me expect to see a race of cat-people or panda-people as playable races to bring in more players who might otherwise skip DDO (anime fans, furry fans, female players, younger audience, etc).

Oh, yeah Kung-Fu Panda Monk, that's what we need!

Seriously, though if they want to make money, not only are they going to put this stuff in, they are also going to add an option to turn off the pets...at a price, in the DDO Store (included free with P2P).

[Barazon]

Its a spinoff of the animal companion tech development, not a complete waste of time. I'm not even sure they are new models rather than just tweaks to the existing cat and dog models.

That is probably partly true. If they don't fight and/or cannot be commanded to take a particular action that makes them different. If they can be summoned in addition to a "companion", then that makes them different also. Every way that they are different not only requires extra coding, but provides fun new ways for bugs to creep in.

[Missing_Minds]

Something else to consider.

There are "tricks" they can do at some point. Maybe we need to raise them to go from cute to deadly?

It would be interesting to put on the market "deadly" pets because we have taken up a job as an "animal trainer" to help augment our "earnings".

[Ovrad]

It's a killer squirrel!

With nasty, big, pointy teeth!

(Yes it's acutally DnD material: Skiurids)

[kwyjibo_lol]

Don't cutify ddo, but similarly less (preferably no) use of upper class twits as DM's. That House C guy is truly dreadful.

[CarpeNoctu]

I'm not overly interested in these things myself. What I'm hoping for is a Dev pet... Can you imagine being able to call out your little 404error or Kookie at any time and have them drop loads of xp, plat and epic gear? That would be a pet worth having...

[Ssdprref]

http://www.ddo.com/ads/broccoli/1/

"Do you wanna play DDO ou those silly and childish oriental MMOs"


Cmom devs, Brocolli or Beholder?

That's why I'm here, all other MMO's looked like Candy Land or any type of crappy Lego game.
I say Beholder. Though I recognize there is base a players that don't agree with me, it's just my opinion.

[Vengeance777]

Keep in mind guys they've increased the dev team to more than 3 times the size it was last year and are dedicating several patches to just bug fixes this year. This isn't taking any dev time away from the game there are teams dedicated to Eberron content, Forgotten Realms content, bug fixes, items, cosmetics, game engine overhauls etc...

[ThomasMink]

If humbug like ugly hats keeps you from playing a game you otherwise enjoyed then I wonder how you function in real life.

Not everybody in real life wears an ugly as sin hat.. or clothes.. or whatever else. Hell, nobody I hang around does. Those that I do see, I only see briefly. I don't have to put up with seeing it for countless hours on end like I do when playing TF2. I also don't have to put up with nonstop trades and chat involving hats and vast hordes of mostly useless weapons and other items.

As for TF2 itself. The game started out as a great concept and very fun. What it has evolved into (or I should say devolved into) is a dress-up game with occasional bouts of gunfire by people that haven't yet realized Team Fortress 2 is no longer a FPS shooter. Seriously, the game's primary function is now to hoard cosmetic items to use as virtual currency for more cosmetic items that fulfill absolutely no function in any other respect. What ever happened to, I don't know, actually shooting things and blowing stuff up? We never got Episode 3 of Half-Life, and no Half-Life 3 so far... and why? Because Valve is making too much freaking money from people buying DIGITAL HATS to be bothered with making actual video games!

So yes.. I am very well into this 'humbug' that you mention.


P.S. I apologize for the semi-off topic-ness, but I couldn't help it.

[Aesop]

When I hear people clamor for baby unicorns I get really distressed... Really? This is what you want? Maybe DDO isn't my game anymore... *sigh*

Hey baby Unicorns are classic DnD

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/...hief_large.jpg

Don't mess with Uni

Aesop

[Saaluta]

It's a killer squirrel!

With nasty, big, pointy teeth!

Is this where I insert the Go for the eyes, Boo!! quote :P

Saal

[Krell]

Oh how I wished things actually worked that way! I'd probably still be playing TF2 on occasion instead of.. uhm.. not. I'm one of those who was in with a small group of players who were clamoring for an option to turn hats off so we didn't have to see whatever ugly as sin hat everyone was wearing.

No, an option for turning this 'unimportant to the game and is actually meaningless' type of thing off will never come. You'll just have to put up with seeing all of it.. then when you say something negative about it, get told that it means nothing! Just ignore it! Awww, look at the poor bald Heavy who doesn't have a hat to cover his head! (Despite my purposely deleting/giving away every hat I ever found)
*eyeroll*

Yup, at one time I had 3 TF2 servers that were usually packed and played the original TF since the quake mod came out. The whole hat and mask thing is a little nuts but it does make money. As for pet design, in general I'm ok with a mix ranging from semi-cute to scary to amusing (Kobolds). Just nothing cartoonish or way cute, like doe eyed fuzzy unicorns with trailing rainbow glitter clouds.

[assimilateur]

What it has evolved into (or I should say devolved into) is a dress-up game with occasional bouts of gunfire by people that haven't yet realized Team Fortress 2 is no longer a FPS shooter. Seriously, the game's primary function is now to hoard cosmetic items to use as virtual currency for more cosmetic items that fulfill absolutely no function in any other respect. What ever happened to, I don't know, actually shooting things and blowing stuff up?

You're taking your hyperbole to a crazy level. People are still playing the game. You may view their hoarding or farming of cosmetic items as ridiculous (and I'd agree), you may also not like the way the gameplay has changed due to the introduction of non-cosmetic, i.e., actually functional items, but the part of your rant about the game no longer being a shooter is ridiculous.

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

(Yes it's acutally DnD material: Skiurids)

HA! Read by a DEV.

So getting these in.

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

I'm not overly interested in these things myself. What I'm hoping for is a Dev pet... Can you imagine being able to call out your little 404error or Kookie at any time and have them drop loads of xp, plat and epic gear? That would be a pet worth having...

also read by a dev.

This one is too easy.

[QuantumFX]

This one is too easy.

Good. Make it happen then. I’m currently stuck at level 18 on a paladin incarnation and could *really* use 840,000XP so I could move onto an incarnation that doesn’t suck.

[FuzzyDuck81]

I'm not overly interested in these things myself. What I'm hoping for is a Dev pet... Can you imagine being able to call out your little 404error or Kookie at any time and have them drop loads of xp, plat and epic gear? That would be a pet worth having...

also read by a dev.

This one is too easy.

I remember in a PnP campaign i once played as a chaotic neutral druid, who amused himself by staying shapeshifted as a raven who the sorcerer (int & wisdom were very, very dumped) thought was his familiar.... does this mean that various devs etc. might be able to drop in & take control of pets, animal companions etc. & have giggles in the same kind of way?

[Vengeance777]

also read by a dev.

This one is too easy.

Any chance we can get little Arraetrikos as a pet after we beat TOD?

[NaturalHazard]

It's a killer squirrel!

Oh, yeah Kung-Fu Panda Monk, that's what we need!

).

Druids comming up, maybe shifters lol. yay make me a shifter monk or a shifter druid/monk............. I think I will name him.,............................ PO.............. lol

I remember in a PnP campaign i once played as a chaotic neutral druid, who amused himself by staying shapeshifted as a raven who the sorcerer (int & wisdom were very, very dumped) thought was his familiar.... does this mean that various devs etc. might be able to drop in & take control of pets, animal companions etc. & have giggles in the same kind of way?

only if they can use koromars belts.