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So I was going through my inventory and found my event items I won during the What the Fluff event. That got me thinking... ninja
Will Gaia ever launch a formal, permanent pet feature? The fluffs may have been somewhat simplistic (feed, wash, sleep, BATTLE! repeat.) but I kinda liked having a little emoting companion follow me around towns2 and frolic around my house. Gaia already has such great pet templates too! Kiki, Coco, Gwee, Momo, Grunny, or even a selection of the bunnies and cats they've released over the years, not to mention recolors and EI pets!
I realize this is one of those long-term projects that they probably don't have much time for now, like the pvp system for zOMG (and if they did they'd probably charge for pet food or something so idk if I could justify paying to feed it on a regular basis, though if it was as plentiful as fish bait then no problem). I still think it would be amazing though and remembering the fun I had with the event, would have that much more incentive to log on every day! whee

The idea's been tossed around, and I was fairly confident that the What the Fluff event was going to herald the advent of the new feature. But I guess that fell by the wayside. No clue as to when it'll happen now, if at all.

I think they came across some weird problem while working on it and decided to scrap it entirely. Seems to be a running thing with them lately.

I wonder if there's a petition for such a thing, and if it would do anything for lack of programers...

gonk I JUST learned of the death of zOMG!.....
Now I am sad. It's not like when they got rid of that resort island game which I also enjoyed for the Sim city nostalgia; scrapping my effort in that without giving me any consolation or apology wasn't huge because I didn't feel like it was really something special to Gaia in the first place so who cares. But zOMG! really was fun, I liked the fighting and event potential and crafting junk and even the distant dream that we'd have pvp someday to show off our ring builds by beating the binary out of each other..... If they can't keep something like that up, maybe this really IS hopeless. crying
(Why couldn't they kill the rally game or something I wouldn't miss? R.I.P zOMG! May your monster-fighting and fun explorable environments be added to Towns2 someday...)