Actually I thought the 12 month pass giving you Diablo3 for free was FAR more interesting!
The whole Pandarian thing has been a running joke for so long it's just sorta 'meh' at this point.
Though it does seem to confirm some things that WoW is losing subscribers and is apparently getting kinda desperate to get new ones and keep existing ones.
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Well, I hope they change the game enough to be interesting to play again. But I guess WoW will fade soon. The Star Wars MMO is about to come out, Guild Wars 2... WoW will have a lot of trouble on keeping his players. I don't think this new Panda Race will be enough to keep the players. :P But the Pet Battle System would be interesting to see.
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Oh, hey, I remember this from the ads for Perfect World, another MMO. I'd rather see Pindarians, lulz. But honestly, I've never been a fan. WoW can go away imo.
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Wait this is serious? I see they outdid themselves with originality on the naming...
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What I find funny is that the first three expansions were so badass in concept and could also be used to name your death metal band. "Burning Crusade" "Wrath of the Lich King" "Cataclysm" (okay, you'd replace the c's with k's in that one). "Mists of Pandaria" sounds somewhat out of place. Not a WoW player either by the way. Plenty of people think it jumped the shark long before this.
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Cow-men, wolf-men, goat-men are okay, but panda-men is jumping the shark?
Hell, there we're a few pandaren in Warcraft 3. Sure, they were mostly a joke, but they were pretty popular.
I for one cannot wait to give Blizzard my money, I've been asking for pandaren since TBC.
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The whole Panda thing came from Warcraft 3 (Pandaren Brewmaster), but even then I thought a whole expansion devoted to Pandarens was a bit too much. I think they're better as an easter egg.
World of Warcraft always had spectacular environments, but the gameplay was horrible.
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well, the new expansion made up my mind, after a long no-more-wow period I'm gonna play it again, at least, for two months.
Yes, the game is great and no, I do not care about your 12-y-old-all-rounder-game-critic opinion.
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The fact that they keep making endless expansions is really starting to show that they know their game is fading away. They can't keep as many people playing for as long of periods of time as before, but they know that they always draw in new/returning customers with the expansions. So they release a new expansion and get a huge boom in customers for a few months before it starts to fade again. They then use the numbers from the boom and advertise those to make WoW seem more relevant than it is.
I'll admit, the popularity of MMOs was definitely boosted by WoW, but there comes a time when a game needs to gracefully step down before it simply becomes a mockery of itself. Unfortunately, WoW has already passed this point. The biggest sign of this down slope is all of their advertising for "PLAY WOW FOR FREE...up to level 20."
That being said, I loved the Pandaren Brewmaster in WC3, but never thought there was really enough there to make a whole playable race off of them. You'd be better off making the Furbolgs, Kobolds, Centaurs, or any of the other miscellaneous races playable.
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I honestly liked WoW when it came out (I've never had an account, but I would play on a friend's every now and then), but I never saw any HUGE difference between it and the other ones that were available at the time.
WoW would probably be considered a classic if it just quietly faded away like EQ and Dark Age of Camelot. The only reason that WoW can still survive is the fact that it is Blizzard, which already had a fairly devoted fan base.
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I did the annual pass just to get Diablo 3 for free.
Am I excited for the Expac? Naw not really, I probably wont roll a panda as its not my thing, I might race change my hunter from Gayelf to Panda, but only because I never use him anymore other than farming.
I am however kind of stoked to roll and Undead Monk.
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I don't know if we have many WoW players in the community, but I found this interesting.
Mists of Pandaria Preview Trailer
Joystiq
Thoughts?
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