Wait. Were minis ever great?
Minis stand there.
They look pretty, or ugly.
They move a little, or a lot.
They are brightly colored, or dull.
They are expensive, or cheap.
But they are pretty useless. About as useless as a tulip on a warrior’s foot.
Why do minis have to be so useless? Is there some law of the universe concerning Minis I’m unaware of? Is there some great reason why a pet can have a function, but a mini has to be as useful as 3 atoms of oxygen ?
Minis should have functionality.
Like GW2 Pokemon.
Minis should be able to fight one another. 1v1, or 20 v 20 if we want.
Run off and pick up items.
Whatever you come up with.
But not, nothing.
Having no function whatsoever, minis are, to a massive ton of people, utterly worthless beyond their sale value.
I want to be able to kick my mini. Punt my mini. I want to be able to set my mini on fire if it’s been a bad mini. I want to be able to hit a key and watch it puff up and explode too. I want my mini to beg for my forgiveness once I’ve hit it a few times.
Don’t like this in a mini? Cool. Don’t use a mini of something evil. You can have a Princess Doll mini and talk about tea with it and pat it on its little princess head.
But most of all I want minis to be able to fight in Mini Wars. And I want to be able to place bets on the fights.
Though, if we gave minis even just 1 single little itty bitty use, they would be INFINITELY more valuable than they are now.
Minis should finally, after GW1, and into GW2, be Made Great Again, or for the first time, 2016.
And it’s OK players, we’ll make ANET pay for all the development costs to do this. Won’t cost us a penny.