Not everyone uses only GD's right now and people will absolutly not only use GD's when the publish hits.
I didn't say everyone, I said 99%, which is true and the few people in this thread (that somehow think they constitute more than 1%) going 'look at me sitting on my Cu' doesn't alter the fact that at every event I've been to in the last 6+ years has been a sea of GD's.
I assume they were referring to the cloud, which UO does use, and as such I don't see how data could possibly be an issue.
The 'cloud' or not it is still a computer sitting somewhere storing data, additional data equals additional storage, equals additional cost.
Player happiness with zero impact on gameplay is not an upside?
There is an impact on gameplay.
When pets are in a stable, they are exactly the same. Hunks of data, that's it. The reality of pets and how they operate in game is completely irrelevant to the discussion, because how many of said hunks of data you can store has zero effect on how those hunks of data effect the game while in use.
Also untrue. On the one hand you're saying there is no effect on game play, while on the other saying that more Tamers will be bought back to the game, more pets at events = more lag.
Reason: It will make playing a tamer more fun, with zero potential drawbacks, as the game would function 100% the same as it does now.
No it wouldn't.
Realistically there are going to be way more than 3-5 combinations. I will be tailoring many pets for many different uses and scenarios.
Yes there will be millions of combinations and most of them less effective than the top one.
I the things people wanted require no coding, and have no effect on gameplay or balance as extra stable slots do not, then those things should have been added already.
Extra stable slots do require coding and have an effect on game play.
Because pets as they are now are essentially all the same, so you get the one that does the most damage and tanks the best. You do realize this new patch is changing all of that right?
Their all the same but you get the one that tanks the best is a pretty big contradiction in terms. This patch is going to make it so you can have a 1000 hp drake, or a 1000 hp GD, or a 1000 hp tsuki wolf... then they will all be the same.
People also May like to use different pet for different enemy.
Until they work out that there is one best option yeah.
Your ****ty Argument is like saying why a Warrior neeeds more than one weapon.
No it isn't. Pets and weapons are not comparable.
Only because you think everyone is Using a GD for everything do Not make this a Fact.
I didn't say everyone and for everything, I said 99%, and they are, you can see it in game at every event (or actually you can't because it's obscured by GD's), the only difference between now and after the publish is that after you'll have something that looks different but with the same end game stats. Sure you'll get a few kooky players that decide to bring some niche pet that they've wasted months training and customising just to be less effective but then you always do.
...and for the record I don't really care whether they do or don't, just seems obvious to me that they are not going to.
