These pets had minor differences between them (looks and features). These differences may seem minor to our eyes but they required artwork too. Even to change a straight line into a simple curve on a pixel map requires effort. It is not like its not work, less work than a brand new design but still work.
It is easy for us to call it RECOLOR. Now let us look at it from another perspective. Keeping in mind the features of the pets and differences between them, lets say Toxy and Venim for example, do you think you would enjoy Venim more than Toxy if Venim's features came in a potato-sack or a gold-encrusted shiny elephant? Accalia and Heroic Accalia, for example, their features differ only slightly from each other. As a player or buyer how deeply are you affected by the looks of the pet?
If sts put a lot of resources into the looks of a new pet, would we buy it just because it looks like that and for how long would we even use a pet we bought just for the looks. If malison is a purple dragon and heroic malison was a gorgeous minotaur, would we care?
And they still do come with brand-new original stuff now and then, it may not be possible every single time.
Guess sts is just putting the resources they have into keeping the game alive and still fun after so many years- if it was not fun anymore, we would not have people knowing about what pet came out during which even how many years ago.
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