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What do you guys think the next play able race will be in WoW?
there will most defenitely be no new race in WotLK but in the future I'm hoping pandaren or naga.
There will be no new races, classes now, that's the focus. People want new classes, screw the races, they have all of the major ones covered.
Or at least that's what I've heard
And you heard wrong
That's just an urban legend started by the damned Pandaren supports. You don't see WC3 being banned in China because of the Pandaren hero, do you?
Blizzard NEVER considered Pandaren as anything more than a fleeting idea. Also, in lore they're neutral
Do you want to know the actual story behind that rumor? Because I'm about to tell it
Long long ago, there were massive forum wars on Blizzard's WoW forums, for guessing what the Alliance race was. I am a veteran of these wars, the type of person who supported Furbolgs due to how awesome they are
Naturally, my enemies were the Pandaren, Goblin, Satyr, Tigon and whatever other race they pulled out of their ass supporters. Despite having lore and common sense on my side, they had numbers. Despite this, I did tend to shut them up rather quickly
Lo and behold, one day someone posts a fictitious account of their random visit to Blizzard's offices. There are no supporting facts to say that this visit ever occurred, and according to him, they had Pandaren decorations everywhere and that they had to cancel out the Pandaren race because China complained or something
This is, naturally, forgetting several different points
1. Warcraft 3 TFT's Pandaren Brewmaster. Who is in the Chinese version. And very, very, very killable
2. Pandaren are a joke race. Joke. Race. They exist for a joke, and every scrap of information on them supports these jokes
3. Pandaren are neutral in the lore anyway. Plus Chen fought alongside the Horde, where as others preferred to go drink with dwarves. Not gonna work
4. Blizzard putting forth months of development on an idea which got smacked down in the end? Yeah right
5. The eventual race were the Draenei. Metzen reveals that he decided on it after a meeting where they were discussing how cool the Ereder were, or something along those lines
And no, a neutral faction won't work, so stop suggesting it
And you heard wrong
That's just an urban legend started by the damned Pandaren supports. You don't see WC3 being banned in China because of the Pandaren hero, do you?
Blizzard NEVER considered Pandaren as anything more than a fleeting idea. Also, in lore they're neutral
Do you want to know the actual story behind that rumor? Because I'm about to tell it
Long long ago, there were massive forum wars on Blizzard's WoW forums, for guessing what the Alliance race was. I am a veteran of these wars, the type of person who supported Furbolgs due to how awesome they are
Naturally, my enemies were the Pandaren, Goblin, Satyr, Tigon and whatever other race they pulled out of their ass supporters. Despite having lore and common sense on my side, they had numbers. Despite this, I did tend to shut them up rather quickly
Lo and behold, one day someone posts a fictitious account of their random visit to Blizzard's offices. There are no supporting facts to say that this visit ever occurred, and according to him, they had Pandaren decorations everywhere and that they had to cancel out the Pandaren race because China complained or something
This is, naturally, forgetting several different points
1. Warcraft 3 TFT's Pandaren Brewmaster. Who is in the Chinese version. And very, very, very killable
2. Pandaren are a joke race. Joke. Race. They exist for a joke, and every scrap of information on them supports these jokes
3. Pandaren are neutral in the lore anyway. Plus Chen fought alongside the Horde, where as others preferred to go drink with dwarves. Not gonna work
4. Blizzard putting forth months of development on an idea which got smacked down in the end? Yeah right
5. The eventual race were the Draenei. Metzen reveals that he decided on it after a meeting where they were discussing how cool the Ereder were, or something along those lines
And no, a neutral faction won't work, so stop suggesting it
Pandas aren't in WoW, Sir Failsatcapslock.Pandas Will Never Be Allowed In Wow! Death To Them All!