Ok, so that’s not the real mock up that Blizzard has for the characters, but that’s basically it. Seriously, I think Blizzard is running out of ideas to add to their franchises. The new expansion is called “Mists of Pandaria” and it features a new character class called… wait for it… Pandaren from, you guess it, Pandaria. Oh, and did I tell you that they’re adding a new fighting class of Monk. Seriously, if Dreamworks doesn’t sue the pants off of Blizzard from that alone, they certainly will from the screen shots of the magical world of Panderia. Ok, I know I may be a little cynical about this because I don’t play WoW, but c’mon people! What do you think?
If that wasn’t a big enough push for WoW users, Blizzard has also announced that Yearly subscribers to World of Warcraft will also receive a free copy of Diablo III when it launches. Sounds to me that they are really pushing for people to stay in WoW and may be a sign of the beginning of the end for one of the best MMOs ever. Kotaku
I am fairly sure that blizzard has been talking about a race of monk Pandas for quite some time. I don’t think its as big a rip off of Kung Fu Panda perhaps even vice versa. Does that make it less stupid? No, no it does not.
Doesn’t make it any LESS stupid, just the same amount of stupid. LOL!
However, I’m sure that Kung Fu Panda predates WoW since the first movie came out in 2008 and took time to make.
Uhhhhhh, WoW came out November 23, 2004. and if I remember correctly they were even in Warcraft 3…So the idea was already there…. Just sayin
point JP! You would think that they could have come up with a more ingenious name for the race and where they came from though.
ha ha ha, well I guess that makes it Jp 1 Eric 100, I agree that the name is stupid, might as well been called cutesybearland for all I care.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that would be hilarious!
Ha ha right. I mean even the cat race in the Elder Scrolls series is called the Khajiit, something original. I bet you anything that when they first created the Pandaren they were thinking it was just a joke race and now they are wanting to create something more with them, so now they are stuck with the name. I also bet that instead of trying to bury the fact that they made a bad name in the first place, they decided to just embrace the silly-ness, by making the towns and what not all in the same theme.
Not going to lie, the trailer looked like it was a joke cause of how poorly they wrote the dude talkings script