Mists of Pandaria Cinematic Trailer

They can't fake numbers you know.

Yeah fake numbers ilold xD

The biggest reason they lose players is because they don't provide enough content fast enough. That's not to say patches either. It's the amount of time from x.3 to x+1.0
Too much time with ICC, and too much time with the Dragon Soul raid. If they'd just hire some more employees, they could have a team for expansion purposes and a team for patch purposes. They're spreading themselves too thin.

WotLK was best imo..... Of course that's when I joined.

Each expansion has had it's ups and downs.
BC was great for hardcore players, but most of the content was slow and dull looking.
Wrath was great up until ICC was released - almost a year of that, with and updated old raid and one new little raid that from what I saw, was not very interesting or fun.
Cataclysm I didn't even play 'til a couple months back, did all the instances and Raid Finder, and that was it. The storytelling in Cataclysm - between quests and instances was some of the best seen in game thus far, but the fights weren't all that interesting.
MoP I haven't played, but it looks like the settings won't be the most interesting this time around. However, I am curious to see the story unfold based on the war rather than a big bad.

i did not thought of it that way. good point!

yes, at warcraft 3 they were a playable hero. One of my favs mercenary heroes.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Pandaren

The Pandaren were first (briefly) featured in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Back in 2003.

Well errors are never really fun, and that was what MoP beta had the most.

I haven't been following the lore since the Deathwing raid came out..... What happened to Garrosh?

Unfortunately, a large portion of WoW players never played Warcraft before 3. All they know is names like Arthas, Sargeras, and Illidan. So they expect the biggest meanest evil out there to show up every expansion. It doesn't have to work like that, and that formula grows stale (and somewhat has). This is a nice breath of fresh air from, "OHHH NOES! THE WORLD IS DOOMED - WE MUST WORK TOGETHER EVEN THOUGH WE HATE EACH OTHER!!!!"

The tone is set right off the bat when you make a new panda. You're forced to choose sides between a war you aren't really a part of. Basically, horde and alliance found indigenous peoples that they're forcing into their armies. Brings out the dark side of both of them.

Is this confirmed somewhere now? I mean, all the signs have been pointing that way for a while, from what I've seen about MoP, but nothing seemed concrete.