I didn’t want to get involved in that discussion, but i want to know who said it has to be difficult to obtain a decent follower?
(Besides the fact that we are pretty experienced as long time players) what is difficult and what is easy is very subjective.
What it comes down to for me, is basically what i‘ve said a bunch of times already.
Time and effort vs. reward.
Yes we don’t have to farm equipment for pets.
BUT there is no guaranteed spawn for greater pets, sometimes not even for babies.
In some cases we even have to buy or loot an egg first!
And then we have to build this insanely huge animal pen, farm shade bloom and play the slot machine.
And of course we have to feed and level them up as well, like every follower.
Long story short, the amount of time and effort is about the SAME!… the “reward”… ISN‘T!
But to be honest what happened to the other followers doesn’t make me exactly enthusiastic about the future of followers in general.
In this very topic someone complained about a nerf, and once again Andy replied: all that nonsense is intentional, there is a new feature coming up soon.
As if we didn’t know already he is obviously referring to DBNO (down but not out).
A feature @Eradicati0n was talking about quite some time ago.
I was against this mechanic and still am, because i can already see the huge red flag!
Developers tend to go the easiest way, FC won’t balance pets or thralls or make them stronger again. Pets are disposable, and thralls become disposable extras too.
Every PvP player will agree, they aren’t worth the time anymore. And it’s getting worse.
Nevermind the thrall pots and pet feeder boxes!…

They continue to nerf them, but give us the ability to revive them… and as we know FC it’s probably insanely grindy and clunky implemented.
Like 5000 gnarled fangs, or dragon powder to revive ONE useless follower or something like that. 


And i love how Andy is talking about it in such a mysterious manner, like it’s something totally unexpected, like the community is completely braindead and can’t comprehend such a mind bending concept.
Like we are all nothing else than clueless buffoons, drooling on our controllers while creaming our pants over this new shiny reskin for a pet, that is beyond use in combat anyways and buggy on top as well.


… or the brand new emote that doesn’t even show up in the radial menu.
But remember my words fellow exiles! The huge red flags are there, it will come true.
Apologies for my “optimism” that sucks the life out of everything within a 10 mile radius… 
But i can’t wrap my head around such nonsense.
How do they think this won’t hurt their reputation?
How does FC think this is good for their dune game, if most of their current player base is mad at them?
…Or at least lost interest.