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By: Mama Druid

Mama Druid — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:13:15 +0000

I like seeing the pandas running around. They are cute and make me smile. While I haven’t got around to making one myself, I will probably create a male panda warrior and name him after my big fluffy man cat. I have tried to create a female panda, but can’t do it. I think it’s because only one face option is provided. Perhaps Blizz took a cue (heh, I originally typed queue) from players who create female trolls? Players inevitably choose the “pretty” face so there’s a bunch of different colored identical twin female trolls running around Azeroth. Why give them an option when 95% will inevitably choose the same face?

And then their silly anime-esque giggle. That these things bother me makes me such a sad panda. But it’s ok, there’s plenty to do and not be sad about! I’m sure I’ll get over it in time and create a female panda eventually.

There’s gotta be some weird psychology behind player preferences when creating characters. I’m not sure I’d want to know where I’d fit in that spectrum.

By: Ellemir

Ellemir — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:07:42 +0000

I’m enjoying Mists of Pandaria very much. I haven’t rolled a pandaren yet, because I’m busy levelling all my 85s. But I will.

I think a reason for the panda hate is – they’re FAT. Prejudice against fat people is the one big acceptable one left, in fact it’s encouraged more and more. The pandaren are fat, and what’s worse, they’re unabashedly fat, they’re HAPPY and fat. And from what I’ve seen, many people just can’t handle that. If you are fat, you’re supposed to be miserable, desperately trying to become thin, and hiding yourself at every opportunity. The pandaren are fat, and they’re perfectly fine with that, and they’re adorable, and they’re busily having their lives.

I’m cheering for it.

By: ellori

ellori — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:01:09 +0000

What I’ve been saying all along is, moonkin are much sillier and more ridiculous-looking than any panda could ever look. (I have one.) But they didn’t “ruin” WoW. So just el-oh-el at the people suddenly frothing out about pandas oh noes breaking WoW. Pandas got nothing on giant waddling chickens, and WoW has survived just fine.

By: Torcthaim

Torcthaim — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:21:14 +0000

I had my reservations about pandas, but I’m having a blast with my Pandren monk. And making the kids hysterical with his jokes (have you tried his /silly emotes?) is a lot of fun. I always worry about these (my son is playing a troll but the ‘shrunken head’ jokes are going over his head so far) but the Panda ones are family friendly. It was a hoot as the kids realized what the “Wind is strong….” joke was about. :)

By: Gyrafall

Gyrafall — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:12:22 +0000

I love Pandaria. Love love love. Possibly an extreme reaction, but I sat down to play it the day it came out, and four hours later I was going “YES!!”. I couldn’t say for sure exactly what it was, but it brought back a feeling I used to get, that I was ‘going to Azeroth’. It was incredibly beautiful, the storyline was immersive, and somehow it all fel very real — not in terms of real life, but that it was a place, not just a scene.

Another thing — Pandaria and the Wandering Isle are very comforting places; you feel safe in them (or I do). It’s a nice feeling.

By: Gyrafall

Gyrafall — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:05:57 +0000

Two things: Goblins already had an established presence in the game — and some of them could be described as badasses, by a very Goblin definition — and that Goblins are, by most definitions I know of, Not Cute.

Another thing — Goblins weren’t threatening to the image of the Horde as a whole. They were scrawny, but they’re also cynical money-grubbers in love with explosions — they fit in with the ‘grittier’ feel of the Horde. Pandaren kind of… don’t. They give the Horde as a whole a softer edge, and some players might find that threatening. I guess. Pure speculation.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 02:29:10 +0000

If you make a list of the 5 baddest, meanest, fool-pitying characters ever to appear in Warcraft, Chen Stormstout makes that list, and easily hits top 3.

Pandas kick ass. Deal with it.

By: ursiheil

ursiheil — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:35:40 +0000

Heh… my favorite (which is to say ironic and just silly to my ears) arguement I keep hearing from people is

“OMG The game has gone all Furry!!!”

Cause, you know… Large cow people, people turning into bears and cats, large wolves, taming animal companions… that didn’t attract the furry community at all. (end sarcasim)

Of course that’s more a discussion about people hating on the internet and people just needing to learn to calm to F*&K down and realize their lives aren’t affected by Furries… Bronies… Gays… Fantasy Football… Dungeons and Dragons… John Deer/International (are you red or green?)… Hipsters… Apple fan boys

I now expect a bear wall about this topic :)

P.S. Although the world IS still affected by Gnomes and Goblins, and we need to punt them as much as possible!

By: Riegnman

Riegnman — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:55:15 +0000

Here is my problem with the whole “pandas suck” argument:
This xpac is about so much more than pandas. The artwork is beautiful, the gameplay mechanics are just about spot on for the new instances. We all know about pet battles; ’nuff said on that subject. The account bound pets and mounts.
This is like Blizzards “windows 7″. That is if you compare wrath to xp and then equate cata with windows vista. Wrath was great, cata had its good points but in general was a little below what they were touting and, with Pandaria, it just appears that they have taken the best from the previous and threw out what was left.