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Pandaren are finally in the game! (sort of)
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LordHiccup
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=101247.0
Looks like we get a Pandaren Monk pet, cool. Although I think the Little Kel'Thuzad pet sound like more fun, now you can have two dead guys yelling at you every time you kill Mr. Bigglesworth. =P
Post by
shmickley
Pandaren were in the vinila wow beta as a playable race before they got removed im surprised they wernt used instead of Worgen
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TK0680
Pandaren were in the vinila wow beta as a playable race before they got removed im surprised they wernt used instead of Worgen
Unless I'm very,
very
much mistaken, Pandaren were first mentioned as an April Fool's joke - the joke being that they would be the new Alliance race in TBC. People liked them - the Pandaren - so much that they were quietly slipped into Warcraft lore.
So, yes, as above - show me your evidence that they were in the beta. Please.
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xaratherus
The Pandaren are actually included in the Warcraft tabletop RPG books.
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Dorean
Won't ever play as Pandaren because the Panda is a sacred animal in China. So it would offend the Chinese if you could kill a Panda, so it won't ever be playable because Blizzard makes too much money from WoW customers in China. As a pet is ok, because you can't kill non-combat pets.
/sigh
This is the most common WoW urban legend. China never said they had issues with playing as a panda in WoW.
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Arikan
Won't ever play as Pandaren because the Panda is a sacred animal in China. So it would offend the Chinese if you could kill a Panda, so it won't ever be playable because Blizzard makes too much money from WoW customers in China. As a pet is ok, because you can't kill non-combat pets.
/sigh
This is the most common WoW urban legend. China never said they had issues with playing as a panda in WoW.
Blizzcon 2008: They stated at the development panel that Pandaran would not be implemented in the foreseeable future due to legal issues with China.
The issue with China was that when Pandaren were originally featured they were in Japanese-style dress, NOT with the Pandaren themselves. Blizzard modified the Pandaren style to be more Chinese and that's that.
http://www.wow.com/2007/09/05/agdc-how-to-rule-the-world-of-warcraft/
It's about halfway down the page.
Post by
fiote
Oh, so you can kill humans but you cant kill pandarens? WEIRD
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Post by
buzz3070
even so its the same issue with wow. and i doubt they would ever make them a race because it was ment to be a gag race not to really be taken seriously.
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Arikan
The link you posted is from 2007. The part about Pandaren is in reference to WarIII, not WoW.
Ok... so the link I posted was from 2007.
How does that invalidate the point? People always say that China wouldn't allow Blizzard to use Pandaren in their games because they couldn't show pandas being killed. This shows that that was not the issue when Pandaren were originally introduced into the Warcraft universe.
I don't understand how that suddenly makes Blizzard's statement worthless.
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