Why is P.O.E and its community afraid of pick-up pets?

I have played POE off and on from the time when there were only 2 acts, and I have often wondered why Path of Exile doesn’t allow their pets to pick up items for the player.

Normally Your pets just follow you around and look cool in the past but now, with Path of exile developers adding interactive animation to cosmetics, for example, a trunk that displays items as you add them to your stash and a glove that triggers an animation when you pick up items. Why not just allow your pets to pick up items for you and connect your loot filter to them so that your pet picks up what you want, like Black Desert and other RPGs?

I don’t believe this will ruin the game, as I have heard in the past, and it will help new players with one less thing to worry about (like doubling back 3 or 4 times to verify you pick up all the things you want).

The developers could also add a toggle feature to the game, so your pets don’t pick up items for you, and this will allow the hardcore gamers to remain hardcore, with their ability to spot and click the one item they need in just a few seconds.



P.S. it would be nice to increase the size of the Character Inventory just a little.

It already exists in Poe China version(think it only applies to currency) but there is obvious reasons why its not wanted here.

i would love auto pick pet but at the same time i would stop playing if GGG added them in a game. auto pick up pet its PAY to WIN future and GGG will loose a lot of players the moment they add that.

I understand the attraction to this feature, the players are not afraid.
As anto4z500 notes, GGG knows that this would drive people away, my self included.

It creates a tone problem, automates more than the designers want to and of course it flys the flag of p2w, a vast majority of games with pickup pets are freemium cash grab garbagio and even if GGG implemented it really fairly its still tarnished by association.

If they gave every new and existing account a free cricket/frog pet would people still have an issue with it? It's not P2W if everyone can use it. What then becomes the problem? It follows loot filter rules so it doesn't fill your inventory with junk, they could even add a secondary filter to it so it only picked up specific things you wanted it to while still allowing you to see other drops which you might situationally want to manually pick up. You still see stuff drop, you still get that moment when your loot filter blows your eardrums out when something potentially good hits the floor with time to see it before it's picked up. If it was detrimental to gameplay in some way then it wouldn't be a feature used by so many other games.

Bots?

I usually play loot-based games to loot. I don't feel like I'm the one who's looting if I had a pet looting for me. I actually like to see something cool drop, and I actually like to pick that cool thing up.

Now, could they add it without me using it? Maybe. Would I feel forced to use it? Maybe. Would I like that? No.

And if they added it as a MTX/P2W element? In lack of better word: Fuck that.

Make them free for everyone and we're talking.

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pr13st wrote:

Make them free for everyone and we're talking.

not even then i'd like and use it!