I do think that is kind of dumb to be honest. They should have just made their racial speech Chinese.
I do think that is kind of dumb to be honest. They should have just made their racial speech Chinese.
I never noticed that, hah pretty cute actually.
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Have you done the Dominance Offensive quests ? The Gilnean Captain always says : [Gilnean] E e e e e e E !
I'd rather prefer the omnom stuff, gilnean is way worse.
Nothing new, Nom nom nom nom.
It is a bit offensive but I don't really care at this point it's a 'why bother'. Blizzard can do what they want. WOW will continue to hemorrhage subscriptions and players. But it's not because of silly things like this, it is the 35+ dailies, the meaningless grind, the sense that the story no longer matters. And of course the main reason people are leaving is the game has been out for greater than 8 years now, it's an old game and it feels old. I still love it but I am also totally bored with it. I am really looking forward to titan.
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Actually the racial languages are an algorithmic code. which filters letters and words into new letter and word lengths. each race has a different code structure but they always come out the same. the cool thing about the Panda code Nom Nom nom nom is they were able to make a code do the same thing with such a simple out put. Meaning it trans forms normal typing in to Nom Nom nom and back into normal typing.
Ohh! What about instead it would be " fa rarara rara ra ra"? <3 me some Christmas Story.
Vote with your wallet if you don't like something. Otherwise just keep your mouth shut.
Isnt "you shall not rp" one of the 10 commandments? :S
As an RPer shouldn't you be role playing that they are speaking anyways? When you walk around the office and hear someone speaking does a bubble pop out of there head with text as well?
as a panda main, i like it
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Ding Dong!
Trassk get over it. Speeches aren't real anyway. Just some algorithm that spits out scrambled syllables.
We need to implement that! Finally understanding one another perfectly in noisy environments!When you walk around the office and hear someone speaking does a bubble pop out of there head with text as well?
"A'iah mani zhi nechi washte" is a lot less goofy and eye-roll worthy than "nomnomnomnomnomnom"
Edit; A lot of people have stated that MoP feels too Disney, too Kung Fu Panda, and just over-all childish. Then we see that subs have dropped. Omnomnm as a language only adds to the argument that MoP is a kiddie expac, and supports the decision of those who left over that view.
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You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
So many angry people here going "This is unimportant". Totally irrelevant, not to mention highly subjective.
RPer here, and while I can admit that it doesn't bother me too much (mainly because I almost never see cross-faction speech nowadays), I still think it's inconsistent with the rest of the game. It's true that WoW has a lot of comedy in it, but everything has been approperiately incorporated into the lore one way or another. But keeping the Pandaren speech like this? It's something that belongs in beta, not in the finished product. It just strengthens the perspective of the Pandaren being one big joke, when it's been clearly stated that they're not.
You cannot do that while stunned.
You cannot do that while stunned.
You cannot do that while stunned.
You die.
You are dead.
It seems strange to me, but I could really care less.
Besides, if Blizzard instated some pseudo-chinese language, people would be harping them for being racist.
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Words to live by.
You can blame the people who perceive racism where it doesn't exist and overly sensitive people in modern societies, and so on for the language being what it is.
The pandaren language would be extremely close to chinese, and without actually directly translating your text to it accurately it would've had to be psuedo-chinese that just "looks" like it. The result would've offended countless overly sensitive people who just sit around all day waiting for something to complain about. So to avoid pandas offending people, or to have them speak a language that clearly doesn't resemble how they have ever pronounced anything in any of the numerous audio clips where they actually speak their native language, they had to do something ridiculous like this.
It reminds me of when Rosie O'donnel faked speaking one sentence in chinese as a joke on TV and had nation-wide protests and complaints about it the next day. People are stupid and ridiculous and it only gets worse every year. But that is why pandas speak in om nom noms, don't expect it to change.
I like ponies and I really don't care what you have to say about that.