Addicted Badge Pets?

So, I just got my 36 month Vet reward badge and was wondering. Why doesn't it do anything, at all. I know most or all badges are mainly for bragging rights but, how am I suppose to brag about a pet that does nothing?

Developers sure do have a weird way of rewarding someone for playing this game for as much as people pay for it. About $400.00 in this game now and I get a pet reward that does nothing, umm? thank you?

Costume pieces also do nothing, just so you know. This may come as a disappointment, but I guess you will just have to deal with the overwhelming grief to the best of your ability.

I wouldn't say they don't "do" anything. I got a ticket the other day in Founders Falls for not scooping up the loaf my Rikti Monkey left on the sidewalk. They do stuff, you just have to clean it up when they're done.

So, it's just a costume piece then? If that is the case then why have to summon it, why not put it in the tailor shop and be able to pick and choose between all pets givin?

It's just there for fun. Even when you get the buff pets, they don't give you much so that they don't make you over-powered.

You are aware that many MMOs have non-combat pets, available in a multitude of ways, and they are quite often very popular? I know people who play WoW who have 50+ different non-cambat pets. And they do precisely nothing. (OK, there's one that throws iceballs that do 1 damage, but since he only targets critters, which don't attack and don't grant XP, he's still useless, combat-wise)

I've seen several posts where people ask for more non-combat pets.

They're there for fun, just like costumes, emotes, costume change emotes, the Halloween and Convention costume change powers, [Walk].... Need I go on?

So you're trying to compare non-combat pets of another game that from the get go can be unlocked after a few hours and there are more then one? And I have to wait three years too get one, an only one. Crap!,.. My bad again. Guess it's money well spent for me.

The vet rewards are a token 'thank you for continuing to play this game' they're not a 'you've spent X amount of money here have something awesometastic'!

Besides atleast you GET something...some of the later rewards are a costume change token and a freespec.

And why aren't you complaining about the Greek Letters chest emblem...they're truly attrocious...almost nobody uses them and they're kind of a let down afte trenchcoats.

I use my non-combat pet for flavor, nothing else. My AR Blaster breaks out the Mek Man as a spotter when she feels like Sniping something. There's no point to it from a numbers point of view, the sniping OR the pet, it's just something I consider fun. I also like the idea of a domesticated Rikti Monkey as a pet, it makes me think of the pet Headcrab from Half-Life 2.

These pets are of far more use to me than, say, the Reveal power. I will never use that at all, that fog tells me where I haven't been. It's a 63-month vet reward, and it's spectacularly useless to me. But you know, I won't be complaining, because I've received a far better reward, i.e. 63 months of access to a great game. A bonus on top of that is really quite incidental.

The true *reward* for playing is easy to identify - Enjoyment. All the extra perks
(Veteran Rewards and such) are gravy as far as I'm concerned. I'd still pay my
hard earned $$$ even if my time spent online was not acknowledged.

However each their own my friend.

I like my little devil pet. Its the bad voice that makes me do bad things.

i honestly never use the non-combat pet because it is useless, i dont complain about it because its free, but i would rather have the buff pet over this pet any day

I use reveal to clear zones that I haven't explored yet on a certain character. That way when somebody says "Such and such just east of the so and so marker" I can actually see what area they are talking about.

Plus in some missions that are "defeat boss" I use it to find the quickest way to the final room.