Guild Wars 2

http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/02/18/guild-wars-2-the-past-present-and-future-up-at-noon

Towards the end of this interview, He gets asked a question about whether they are going to address ranger pet and necro minion AI. Typical response, “We’re always looking at ways to make the game better…”

And then in elaborating, he says that everyone has an idea how they want their class to be super-bad kitten etc. And he uses the example of Warriors wanting to dual-wield greatswords.

I’m sorry, but dual-wielding greatswords and buggy pets are not even on the same playing field… I can see it now…

Next content update, Warriors will be dual-wielding greatswords, and we still have fugly kittens to trip over… /facepalm

I just watched it, I don’t think he meant what it is being made out to mean.

There have been a LOT of ai threads, not all of them are merely about fixing our AI, so he said that they are looking at balance constantly, and later, that they are always looking at what we say for possible improvements. His mention of dual-wielding greatswords is more general: everyone wants OP things for their class, and that is not going to happen. That comment wasn’t directly saying that fixing AI is going to break us.

It still seems rather ridiculous to even lump in making pets and especially minions actually useful and functional with ‘lol2greatswordsplz!’ It’s not even in the same ballpark. If they wanted to dodge the question they could have done it alot more tactfully.

Note that the question did not specifically say " are you looking at fixing pet AI problems", it was a generic question about all the different things that have been said about pets and minions, which DO include some ridiculous suggestions that are along the line of double greatswords.