In this week's WoW Factor, we offer up our thoughts on the Pet Battles feature coming with the the launch of Mists of Pandaria, the latest expansion to World of Warcraft.

So, we could go on and on rather pointlessly about the recently announced Pandaria launch date. But we already did that here. So instead, in this edition of the WoW Factor, I’d like to offer a few thoughts on the recently added Pet Battle System to the beta for Blizzard’s latest Azerothian expansion.  In short? It’s really quite the Pokémon meets WoW addition you’d expect it to be. But that’s not really a bad thing. In an MMORPG that has come to favor the “game” part of the acronym more than the RP, I’ve actually found the pet battle system to be an interesting alternate form of progression and fun to be had in Warcraft.

Read more of Bill Murphy's The WoW Factor: Pokémon? Yes, But It’s Fun.

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just another gimmick that no one will play after the novelty wears off, Similar to that mount combat game they added, does anyone play that now?

Originally posted by MikeB

In this week's WoW Factor, we offer up our thoughts on the Pet Battles feature coming with the the launch of Mists of Pandaria, the latest expansion to World of Warcraft.

So, we could go on and on rather pointlessly about the recently announced Pandaria launch date. But we already did that here. So instead, in this edition of the WoW Factor, I’d like to offer a few thoughts on the recently added Pet Battle System to the beta for Blizzard’s latest Azerothian expansion.  In short? It’s really quite the Pokémon meets WoW addition you’d expect it to be. But that’s not really a bad thing. In an MMORPG that has come to favor the “game” part of the acronym more than the RP, I’ve actually found the pet battle system to be an interesting alternate form of progression and fun to be had in Warcraft.

Read more of Bill Murphy's The WoW Factor: Pokémon? Yes, But It’s Fun.

As an ex-wow player (jan '05 - feb '12) I can't overstate how insulting the "Kung Fu panda & Pokemon" expansion is. MoP is the best that Blizzard could do?? MoP!! I mean really?? *sigh...

My wife and I quit early in '12 and half our Guild has now quit. I have pre-purchased GW2 and so far I can see Tyria being my new mmo-home.

My thoughts on MoP: Kung Fu Panda & Pokemon definitely not for me or my wife. To those that stay in WOW see ya! To those that come over to GW2... see ya on August 25th! :-)

Cheers!

I wonder if they will have a "Team Rocket" quest were you have to battle them or they will steal your hmm for lack of better word pokecraft pets.

Considering the money blizzard make from wow, their expansions are insulting. Does this game even have guild halls yet?

Originally posted by Istavaan

Considering the money blizzard make from wow, their expansions are insulting. Does this game even have guild halls yet?

That's the million dollar question!

How can Blizzard ever justify MoP with all the revenue they get from WOW??

Well, you can see this caters to their target market audience these days, sort of the farmville type of gamer.

Serious MMORPG fans need no longer apply.

But then again, the train left the station quite some time ago I think.

Edit: But then again, who the heck wants to have fun in a MMORPG, they are serious business!

Whoo hoo, 15K....

As I keep stating this is Blizz last leg for this game. They know it why do you tink the are trying to pull in the millions of China players. common since lmao

Hmm whats with the title. I always thought Pokemon were fun (Funner than most MMOs ever made).  And I am pretty sure Pandaren were around before the Kung Fu Panda movies were even thought of.  In any case, I havent played WoW in about 5 years, if it ever went totally BTP/FTP I might jump back in though (probably never)

Originally posted by Kyleran

Edit: But then again, who the heck wants to have fun in a MMORPG, they are serious business!

Whoo hoo, 15K....

Fun in MMORPGs?  Is that even allowed?

I have mixed opinions on MoP in general.  The only thing I know for sure is they didn't design it for me.  No doubt many will like it, that's what Blizzard does.

Grats on the 15.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Well, you can see this caters to their target market audience these days, sort of the farmville type of gamer.

Serious MMORPG fans need no longer apply.

But then again, the train left the station quite some time ago I think.

Edit: But then again, who the heck wants to have fun in a MMORPG, they are serious business!

Whoo hoo, 15K....

Agreed.

The train left for me when I bought and played Cata; that was my last expansion.

Yellow: I'm not one of those who believes games to be serious business to the point that it turns into a job; I'm all about playign the game and having fun with friends and family (main reason why i'm leaving WOW and moving towards GW2). Having said that, the kind of fun I'm talking about GW2 seems to understand better than WOW. I have nothing against WOW and after all the money and hours I've spent on WOW, I'm as far as one could be from being a WOW hater... however WOW and I no longer see eye to eye. My wife and I have parted ways from WOW and we are moving on!

Cheers!

Every game needs other sources of entertainment, between questing and raids.

EQ2 has housing and collections, DAoC has PvP and Trophies, Vanguard has Diplomacy and now WoW has Pet Battles ... I am all for anything that adds antoher options other that questing, dailies & crafting.

Anyway, it will give me a use for the 112 pets I have collected over the years!

Originally posted by DukeTyrion

Every game needs other sources of entertainment, between questing and raids.

EQ2 has housing and collections, DAoC has PvP and Trophies, Vanguard has Diplomacy and now WoW has Pet Battles ... I am all for anything that adds antoher options other that questing, dailies & crafting.

Anyway, it will give me a use for the 112 pets I have collected over the years!

I understand the need for a break from the daily grind; sad that a game bores/frustruates its playerbase enough to have to add other forms of gameplay in order to keep its playerbase. It's what hapens when game focuses on "work" as opposed to the "fun" of playing the game.

I wouldn't necessarily have an issue with pokemon battles except for the fact that WOW hasn't added anything NEW for the characters. By new I mean not more of the same (grinding for gear via linear quests and queuing for raids for 30 min waiting on healers/tanks). And furthermore, WOW simplified the talent tree system even more, as if it wasnt simple enough already! WOW keeps appealing to the lowest denominator time and time again... I mean, there's only so low you can get before you turn into one of those cheap F2P korean mmos.

I'm not hating on WOW, I guess you could say I'm venting my frustruation on a game which I have invested a lot of time and money in. WOW no longer is the same game and though they have over 6 million players in Asia (mainly China), they lost me and my wife.

So much senseless QQ'ing from people, it's one feature of the expansion - might not be your flavour but no matter how much you think otherwise no developer can please all off the people all the time.  I'll be playing GW2 and MOP and theres nothing wrong with that.

same thing i can say about Guild (Doors) Wars 2 about their jump puzzle, what is that Super Mario over again ?? There are already a ton of Super Mario game out there

Originally posted by volvoxaureus

same thing i can say about Guild (Doors) Wars 2 about their jump puzzle, what is that Super Mario over again ?? There are already a ton of Super Mario game out there

Big dif from having your pets fighting (instead of your characters) and having your characters solve jumping puzzles. Sure its prob a copy from mario... would rather copy from mario than from pokemon to be honest!

hmm so my pets will fight and I'll have to watch only ?? there isn't a manual combat ??