Followers in D3

Blizzard has revealed in the past that followers were intended to be in single player only. Does anyone know if it's changed or not ?

If it's similar, I do believe Blizzard should change their mind because in D2 it was fun and added a new dimension of PvE at first but also for PvP with certain characters (pal,sorc .... Just to name a few)|||They said that followers may be usable in multiplayer but they will take player spot....so party could be 2 players with 2 followers ..or 3 players and one player using follower.

We didn't heard anything new since then.. Except one thing.. They said they want have followers usable only in normal difficulty at first. On 1.August, they said they may change that and followers could be viable for whole game...for cost of passive slot or something.|||i loved mercs in d2 !!! i always wished they made it more personable and something to invest in or something like a sidekick haha|||Well, I highly doubt there will be aura items such as Infinity or Insight, so mercs probably will be less viable in the late game than they were in D2. I'm okay with this, because they're not balancing D3 from any reference point in D2, they're doing it from scratch. Anyways, I feel like mercs made things too easy for ranged players in D2, who were originally supposed to use hit & run tactics.

However, I do hope that there will be more NPCs fighting alongside you, as there were Barbarians in the beginning of Act 5, just to contribute to the atmosphere of the game a little bit. The barbarians gave us the nice illusion that an entire faction was trying to push back a siege, and that it wasn't all being done by one person (even though that actually was the case). More locations that have a war like feeling would be nice.|||Quote:




They said that followers may be usable in multiplayer but they will take player spot....so party could be 2 players with 2 followers ..or 3 players and one player using follower.




I don't believe they ever said that. That was player speculation/suggestion.|||My recollection is that they said Followers would be too weak to be useful in multiplayer. not that they wouldn't be allowed.|||Actually, they never said that. Followers have only ever been available in single player.|||Followers leave if anyone joins your game, never once has it been said they are usable with other people ingame.|||Yes, thank you, I forgot to mention that detail.|||no this hasnt changed

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