It is the connection with Kung Fu Panda. Some people had trouble disconnecting the two I guess. Personally, I wonder how else Pandarens could be depicted in the game. They are fat, or rather, well rounded. Well, that is pretty much they are in real life. A lean Panda would look ridiculous.
Nah they had to train more people because they hired more to help create more content. They also tried to split the team but that backed fired as well and that caused the content shortage. They took a different approach with legion and the amount of content has quadrupled.
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I thought the panda theme to be extremely boring, probably as bad as the orc burn-out.
A lot of people just weren't feeling the panda theme. It even came down to the marketing of the physical product. Less people probably impulsively bought it because a picture of a panda on the box has a considerably lower "cool" factor than the previous expansions' art such as a badass dragon or a sinister looking dark knight.
In the wake of Cata's disappointment, having Pandas which were controversial for some people didn't help. People didn't see WARcraft in MoP, they saw Pandacraft which is a shame because outside of a few launch problems and the 14 month SoO, MoP was one of the better expansions that I'd at least put it up against WotlK since people like to forget the many bad design decisions that Wrath had.
Dragon Soul's length combined with MoP's theme not being as intriguing to the masses as WoD and Legion naturally are. Really all there is to it.
As I mentioned earlier, but it's not only that but the fact that the entire expansion was based off of those fat kung-fu pandas. Pandas alone introduced as a race (without the entire expansion themed around them) would have been fine.
Also I personally wasn't a big fan of Pandaland as a continent, but I guess that kind of goes along with the overall theme.
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It was a lame, joke expansion I guess. Besides, furries and Asian themed things aren't somethings most people are looking for in WoW.
I thought about starting WoW at the end of Cata but chose not to and instead waited for WoD as I like classic Tolkien style fantasy with elves, orcs, dwarves etc. especially with darker undertones. Lighthearted, childish, comical stuff and most Asian themed things just don't interest me.. at least not the stereotypical stuff.
Last I checked, the largest sub drop was actually in the first 6 months of WoD.
Oh, look at that... just look at that mountain at the beginning of WoD, bringing it back up to MoP's highest numbers, and then look at that STEEEEEEEP fall to below what MoP ever dropped to. Please don't tell people they should "bother" googling it, if you can't even get it right yourself.
oh yeah i think mop did the best job of any expansion at story telling and the way they progressed the story was really good, and things like the introduction of treasures and those story scroll things made leveling slightly more interesting than previous expansions. blizzard kept their word when they said that the start of mists was the calm before the storm, the way the story progressed was really good, i really liked the krasarang wilds horde v alliance patch and the destruction of vale of eternal blossoms, some of blizzards best work lately imo
hwoever on the surface of MoP and at release the theme did seem to be whimsy pandas that were hard to take seriously , i think they failed in selling the darker side of the expansion, which is where MoP really shone.
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