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Originally posted by Praetalus

Originally posted by precious328

Did they just hire Jack Black or something?

Kung Fu Panda? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

 

I used to play with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was a kid. The characters were fantastic, e.g., Leonardo, Don, Mike, Raph, Shredder, Krang, Slash, Splinter, etc....

HOWEVER,

When they started to get cute with stupid characters like, "Pizza Throwing Raph" and "Rappin' Mike", I thought that was even too gay for a 12 year old.

 

Moreover, the Monk is probably the dumbest class of all time.

 

This is WoW.

 

 

I swear you guys crack me up.. Pandas!! how could they:

Arrakoa = bird people
Centaur= horse people
Furblogs = bear people
Gnolls = hyena people
Kobolds = rat people
Magnataur = mammoth people
Murlocs = fish people
Naga = fish/snake people
Qiraji/Nerubian = bug people
Quillboar = boar people
Taunka = buffalo people
Tauren = cow people
Tol'vir = cat people
Tuskarr = walrus people
Wildkin/Moonkin = owl people
Wolvar = wolverine people
Worgen = wolf people

I don't see a problem.

well lets see you can't play a arrkoa... you cant play a centaur... you cant play furbogs... etc why now all a sudden you can play a race that never existred in the game b4........ thats the problem..

disney kungfu panda people should sue em or something... 

Originally posted by Praetalus

Originally posted by precious328

Did they just hire Jack Black or something?

Kung Fu Panda? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

 

I used to play with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was a kid. The characters were fantastic, e.g., Leonardo, Don, Mike, Raph, Shredder, Krang, Slash, Splinter, etc....

HOWEVER,

When they started to get cute with stupid characters like, "Pizza Throwing Raph" and "Rappin' Mike", I thought that was even too gay for a 12 year old.

 

Moreover, the Monk is probably the dumbest class of all time.

 

This is WoW.

 

 

I swear you guys crack me up.. Pandas!! how could they:

Arrakoa = bird people
Centaur= horse people
Furblogs = bear people
Gnolls = hyena people
Kobolds = rat people
Magnataur = mammoth people
Murlocs = fish people
Naga = fish/snake people
Qiraji/Nerubian = bug people
Quillboar = boar people
Taunka = buffalo people
Tauren = cow people
Tol'vir = cat people
Tuskarr = walrus people
Wildkin/Moonkin = owl people
Wolvar = wolverine people
Worgen = wolf people

I don't see a problem.

I know - right.  Too funny.

I would say it's a marketing ploy to attract chinese gold farmers.  their "subscription" numbers must be slipping even in China.

Pandaren have been a part of Blizzard's variety of lore for a long time.

It's cool to see them added.

Monk class is always nice. Tho' I'd like to have seen Blademaster come in to play as well.

Originally posted by expresso

Good to see the only issue's this community has (let's face it's anti-wow) is the race, no mension of the new class, PvP focus etc which tells me they secretly love it.  Find out in 20 minutes what the expac is all about though with the panel.

We can only discuss one thing at a time and right now we have friggin' Panda's on our minds. No worries, we'll get back to you though!

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Pandaren have been a part of Blizzard's variety of lore for a long time.

It's cool to see them added.

Monk class is always nice. Tho' I'd like to have seen Blademaster come in to play as well.

The pandaren started as a creation of the Blizzard artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans. In the first BlizzCast episode launched on Jan. 10, 2008, Samwise recalled the process to the creation of the Pandaren April Fool's page: "But so we put that up in there and everyone was like “Oh my God! A PANDA RACE? That’s kind of cool!” And I’m like “Are you kidding me, really? You want to see pandas in Warcraft III or whatever?”" Soon, they were included in the Warcraft III expansion and Chris Metzen began to write them into the game lore. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion.

The Lore has been a running joke for years. They have nothing to do with Warcraft lore and were created for a laugh. WotLK got so big because it based on solid lore not some unknown stuff.

HOLY SHYTE! lol

At this very moment myself and a room full of techs I just showed this to are laughing our guts out! :)

Oh if this is true Blizz has sunk to a new low and have officially lost all touch with what Warcraft once was.

Hell I don't care. I haven't played Wow in over 2 years. Old, out of date game in my mind at this point. It offered a couple years of great fun but went down hill so entirely fast at it's first expansion it was barely worth looking at anymore.

Originally posted by Anthur

Definately aimed at the asian market. Probably a smart move, money wise.

 Yeah i think it has alot to do with the fact that they know they will be losing alot of NA/EU subs to TOR and GW2.

I realize I am a sample of one, but as a former WoW player, this does nothing to get me back in the game, and in fact pretty much seals the deal that I am never going back.

WoW has always treaded a fine line between serious and whimsical, but this just pushes it way over the whimsical edge, into anime-free-to-play-marketed-to-15-year-olds territory.  Pet fights based on Pokemon, really?

Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Pandaren have been a part of Blizzard's variety of lore for a long time.

It's cool to see them added.

Monk class is always nice. Tho' I'd like to have seen Blademaster come in to play as well.

The pandaren started as a creation of the Blizzard artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans. In the first BlizzCast episode launched on Jan. 10, 2008, Samwise recalled the process to the creation of the Pandaren April Fool's page: "But so we put that up in there and everyone was like “Oh my God! A PANDA RACE? That’s kind of cool!” And I’m like “Are you kidding me, really? You want to see pandas in Warcraft III or whatever?”" Soon, they were included in the Warcraft III expansion and Chris Metzen began to write them into the game lore. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion.

 

The Lore has been a running joke for years. They have nothing to do with Warcraft lore and were created for a laugh. WotLK got so big because it based on solid lore not some unknown stuff.

It's actually a bit of an older joke than that. From artwork from other games. I got a calendar as a Blizzard promo item from Warcraft 2 era with a hidden panda munching on some bamboo amongst an intense orc v humans display. 

Plus I played as a Pandaren monk in a Warcraft table top RPG game and it had a greatly fleshed out and varied lore established.

So it's not that hidden, just most people are paper thin.

Just when I thought WoW couldn't get any "derpier", for lack of a better term...

It's crazy to think that WoW has been out so long that there are people on this site too young to even remember WC3 and how immensely popular the Pandaren hero was. I sometimes take for granted all the things I remember about games past, that new young gamers have no concept of.

Gaming history should be a mandatory high school class imo.

Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Pandaren have been a part of Blizzard's variety of lore for a long time.

It's cool to see them added.

Monk class is always nice. Tho' I'd like to have seen Blademaster come in to play as well.

The pandaren started as a creation of the Blizzard artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans. In the first BlizzCast episode launched on Jan. 10, 2008, Samwise recalled the process to the creation of the Pandaren April Fool's page: "But so we put that up in there and everyone was like “Oh my God! A PANDA RACE? That’s kind of cool!” And I’m like “Are you kidding me, really? You want to see pandas in Warcraft III or whatever?”" Soon, they were included in the Warcraft III expansion and Chris Metzen began to write them into the game lore. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion.

 

The Lore has been a running joke for years. They have nothing to do with Warcraft lore and were created for a laugh. WotLK got so big because it based on solid lore not some unknown stuff.

  what lore would that be exactly Puke? I completed almost all quests in game and i cannot remember any questlines that discussed..ninja pandas.  I wonder if Puremallace hit tte nail on the head eh :)

So many haters in this thread. Chill out mangs.

New talent system, only one race added to a two faction game, faction warfare, new class. I've yet to hear anything negative, and I for one am curious as to where they'll take this.

Originally posted by Rusque

It's crazy to think that WoW has been out so long that there are people on this site too young to even remember WC3 and how immensely popular the Pandaren hero was. I sometimes take for granted all the things I remember about games past, that new young gamers have no concept of.

Gaming history should be a mandatory high school class imo.

Eh these idiots-who-call-themselves-gamers now a days probably would want to know the DPS total for Pacman and refuse to put quarters in the machine until the third level ghosts were nerfed.

My jaw met the floor. I laughed, I gasped, I...didn't know what other emotions I should have felt.

I guess it's because of my disbelief of the leaks way back at the beginning of August and partly agreeing with the naysayers! 

Originally posted by Bladestrom

Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by PukeBucket

Pandaren have been a part of Blizzard's variety of lore for a long time.

It's cool to see them added.

Monk class is always nice. Tho' I'd like to have seen Blademaster come in to play as well.

The pandaren started as a creation of the Blizzard artist Samwise Didier and an April Fool's joke, but they got a massive response from Warcraft fans. In the first BlizzCast episode launched on Jan. 10, 2008, Samwise recalled the process to the creation of the Pandaren April Fool's page: "But so we put that up in there and everyone was like “Oh my God! A PANDA RACE? That’s kind of cool!” And I’m like “Are you kidding me, really? You want to see pandas in Warcraft III or whatever?”" Soon, they were included in the Warcraft III expansion and Chris Metzen began to write them into the game lore. Due to this popularity, pandaren were rumored to be the new playable Alliance race to be introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion.

 

The Lore has been a running joke for years. They have nothing to do with Warcraft lore and were created for a laugh. WotLK got so big because it based on solid lore not some unknown stuff.

  what lore would that be exactly Puke? I completed almost all quests in game and i cannot remember any questlines that discussed..ninja pandas.  I wonder if Puremallace hit tte nail on the head eh :)

There's plenty.

Play WC2 or WC3 and maybe read a book.

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Originally posted by nerovipus32

Anyone who buys this is very foolish indeed.

Pfft... whatever..

Panda Monks dude...I am totally buying this expansion.

Do you guys really think WoW is such serious bizness that Pandas do not belong??