The whole China thing was a rumor that exploded kinda like the List as people tried to create an imaginary excuse because they realize the Pandaren won't probably ever be in WoW.(To create more popularity and further the debate of real or fake race.)
As for them objecting to the Japanese culture now that I think was a valid concern but if anything they would do what they did with Wrath and just censor or change it all.
Your argument is invalid due to gnomes.Again: the only China issue, ever, was in regards to pandaren (based on a Chinese animal) in samurai (Japanese) armor.
I hope you're joking. Racism is not exclusive to a particular ethnicity.
Ask me about Deceiver's Vengeance, the Argus Scrolls, or why Tyn does not approve.
Good work can still be improved upon.
Naga will never be playable... as cool as they are... I just don't think it will happen.
I shouldn't actually say never, though; in the spirit of this thread
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Someone tried to fight my friend the other day because he assumed his random spitting on the ground (as gross as it may be) was an act of racism because we were white
I'd love it if Pandaria gets destroyed...Be worth the QQ
Plz cata destroy all pandaren
if they ever become a playable race i will quit this game
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No you won't.If you have not quited yet with today's wow you won't quit with pandarens.And there is nothing silly with pandaren.
Fuck those pandas, nobody cares.
Except that they are a pure comic relief race added in as a joke in WC3? Putting them in the actual story is on par with making Larion and Muigin or Linken major lore characters IMO. :-p
It's not like I'd be overly pissed if they added them in, but I'm not a big fan... They were awesome in WC3 but can certainly live without them being in WoW.
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I m not gonna try to go into wether or not the worgen lore was a ret con... but you seem to be saying that it wasn't, it was just new information which makes it ok.
Than why the hell wouldn't a pandaren lore be ok? The pandarens are so mysterious it would probably not need any retcon only new informations.
Also I don't get 4 things:
-People who read the title of the thread and write "China" as an answer without reading anything of the many posts...
-Pandarens being regarded as too ridiculous a race to be in WoW when we already have cows, gnomes, spacegoats,...
-Why the fact that Pandarens were introduced as a joke in wc3 and don't have much background information matters... as I have pretty much explained in previous posts => Draenei were pretty much reinvented for TBC and it turned out ok so why would it be bad to add some lore to the Pandarens?
-Why would people want furbolgs as a playable race when they don't want pandarens? FUrbolgs are much more primitive and less interesting in my mind.
Just to be clear, I m not even sure I would want to play a Pandaren if it was possible and I m not sure they shouldn't just be introduced as a neutral non-playable faction... but most of the arguments against them are so ridiculous it's crazy!
This is the thing that keeps being repeated in this thread.They are not a joke race anymore.
You people do not have any good objection other than chen was a joke in warcraft 3 then they should not be in.
Read the whole story about pandaren.They are masters with many weapons,they are martial artists,they are able to defend themselves,they can crack open and control the earth,even turn to earth itself.
But they are silly because they were called joke in warcraft 3?They are very serious.Much more serious than many 'serious' races of warcraft.Enough with this prejudice about them.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Pandaren
frankly if they do become playable it wont be the majority of there race that joins a faction i mean look at goblins there is still several cartels that ae either neutral(Steamwheedle) or hostile(Venture Co). I mean Horde can even be friendly to a bunch of Draenei in Shattrath and vice versa for Alliance and blood Elves
people who dont like pandarens dishonor bruce lee!!!!