Diablo 4 general manager says “never say never” to mini pets
Diablo 3 fans miss the presence of pets in Diablo 4 have been given a glimmer of hope, such as DiabloThe game’s general manager, Rod Fergusson, has hinted that there’s always a chance they could eventually be added to the latest game.
In an interview with TRG during BlizzCon 2023, we asked Fergusson if the team would ever consider adding mini-pets again, to which he replied, “We’re a ‘never say never’ team.”
Explaining the decision to keep mini pets outside Diablo 4 first of all, he said, “When we started, we really wanted to establish ourselves in a very authentic way, in a very grounded way. So we looked at, ‘Oh hey, what’s really popular in it Diablo 3? mini pets and giant wings, and all this stuff.”
“And we were like, okay, if you go into a dark gothic world Diablo 4, and the first thing you (do) is go to town, and everyone is running around with pets and wings, it won’t feel so scary: ‘Lilith is back’.
He then compared the game to a TV series and explained that what a show might do in its 25th season could be vastly different from what it was in season one. Fergusson stated that once a show has already ‘established itself’, people are ‘willing to go along with it’ if the show does something funny.
“We get the wish (for mini pets) and we had fun with that too. We love mini pets, and we love making all those things,” he continued. “But we wanted to be sure Diablo 4 as a kind of resurgence – the tentpole version of our franchise – came in in an authentic, grounded way that we could build from there. That’s not to say we’ll never do it, but it felt too early in season one.”
For now, fans will just have to watch this space, and perhaps engage in the search for secrets about the mythical “cow level” that is the Diablo developers have been teasing again.
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