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Adamsm
Ogres- Basically Orcs with less lore behind them. From the same place and stuff.Huh?
Lots of lore here.
Follow the links, look up the stuff on Ogre-lords, the Gronn and the all the rest. They have almost as much lore as the orc's themselves.
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danroe
Pandaren WILL NEVER be a playable race, will never be a boss encounter, will never be a bad guy or a killable good guy ever. Reason being, political non-WoW related reasons. China, one of the leading WoW consumers, holds panda's as a religious sacred animal. For that reason, you will never see Panda's in WoW being attacked, killed, and definitely not playable. In fact I believe in Warcraft 3, they didn't even have the Panda guy in the Chinese versions of the game, although I'm not 100% sure.
It sucks because I personally loved playing the Panda guy in Warcraft 3, but it will never happen in WoW. Too many upset chinamen would make Blizzard sales drop horrendously.
If this is true, how come India has not started a war about Taurens?
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Post by
Morec0
Naga will never work just because of their anatomy; think about
waist
,
leg
, &
foot
armour or lack there of for Naga's. The game's gear is built around bipeds, so legless lizards don't have a place in the game as a playable character no matter how lore worthy they are since WC3. Things have to add up and that's probably why Naga didnt make the game this whole time. Blizzard's not going to change/add to the entire loot/gear just for a single race.
On my Naga expansion page I have links to Naga wearing armor. Take a look and revise your statement.
Don't need to revise my statements since they're based straight from the horse's mouth (Blizzard). Also people have been saying what I've stated since before WoW launched. The Naga has been a race people wanted in WoW for way too long. Also the pictures don't show any Foot Amour. So the leg textures have been extended in the photos, theres still an issue with their practicality. The only way I see the Naga making their way into the game as a playable race is when Blizzard needs a
trump card
to sell the game and right now their doing better than ever.
Do you actually see feet armor on trolls? Tuaren? Draine? Worgen? Same thing for Naga when/if they come out. It'll just blend onto the tail somewhere around the end.
Post by
HiVolt
Panderen- They used to be allied to the Night Elves, then left. Well, not much lore there.
You should keep looking.
Pandaren WILL NEVER be a playable race, will never be a boss encounter, will never be a bad guy or a killable good guy ever. Reason being, political non-WoW related reasons. China, one of the leading WoW consumers, holds panda's as a religious sacred animal. For that reason, you will never see Panda's in WoW being attacked, killed, and definitely not playable. In fact I believe in Warcraft 3, they didn't even have the Panda guy in the Chinese versions of the game, although I'm not 100% sure.
It sucks because I personally loved playing the Panda guy in Warcraft 3, but it will never happen in WoW. Too many upset chinamen would make Blizzard sales drop horrendously.
Pandas are not a religious or sacred animal in China. The Chinese government just doesn't want to see any violence against Pandas in any form, in any media, as it goes against their attempts to curb poaching. They are a symbol of China, not a sacred animal.
I'm not sure if the Brewmaster was in the Chinese version of WC3, but I know that the Chinese Community was aware of it. Originally the Brewmaster wore a samurai-like set of armor, and Blizzard changed this to appease the Chinese Community.
And I honestly think that if Blizzard would do something when adding in the Pandaren, such as raising awareness about the situation of Pandas as an endangered species, all of this might be a moot point.
I desperately want to see them as a playable race.
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danroe
Pandaren WILL NEVER be a playable race, will never be a boss encounter, will never be a bad guy or a killable good guy ever. Reason being, political non-WoW related reasons. China, one of the leading WoW consumers, holds panda's as a religious sacred animal. For that reason, you will never see Panda's in WoW being attacked, killed, and definitely not playable. In fact I believe in Warcraft 3, they didn't even have the Panda guy in the Chinese versions of the game, although I'm not 100% sure.
It sucks because I personally loved playing the Panda guy in Warcraft 3, but it will never happen in WoW. Too many upset chinamen would make Blizzard sales drop horrendously.
If this is true, how come India has not started a war about Taurens?
Because Tauren aren't cows, they are minotaurs, hence the "Taur" in "Tauren". In case you were wondering, blizzard isn't really too creative with names.
As far as I'm concerned, there are no female minotaurs.
Post by
Morec0
Naga will never work just because of their anatomy; think about
waist
,
leg
, &
foot
armour or lack there of for Naga's. The game's gear is built around bipeds, so legless lizards don't have a place in the game as a playable character no matter how lore worthy they are since WC3. Things have to add up and that's probably why Naga didnt make the game this whole time. Blizzard's not going to change/add to the entire loot/gear just for a single race.
On my Naga expansion page I have links to Naga wearing armor. Take a look and revise your statement.
Don't need to revise my statements since they're based straight from the horse's mouth (Blizzard). Also people have been saying what I've stated since before WoW launched. The Naga has been a race people wanted in WoW for way too long. Also the pictures don't show any Foot Amour. So the leg textures have been extended in the photos, theres still an issue with their practicality. The only way I see the Naga making their way into the game as a playable race is when Blizzard needs a
trump card
to sell the game and right now their doing better than ever.
Do you actually see feet armor on trolls? Tuaren? Draine? Worgen? Same thing for Naga when/if they come out. It'll just blend onto the tail somewhere around the end.
Yes actually you do see them on those races, they just come out looking like anklets. Also comes back to my statement about it being practical, just like how they can't have footwear that covers the hooves of a Tauren, the Naga can't have armor that covers the lower half of their body. It simply wouldn't make sense.
Then add a little bit to the end of the Naga's tale. It's a simple model change, and if Blizzard wants to remodel the Worgen and Goblin models, then I don't think they'd have to much trouble with something that minior.
Post by
xaratherus
Pandaren WILL NEVER be a playable race, will never be a boss encounter, will never be a bad guy or a killable good guy ever. Reason being, political non-WoW related reasons. China, one of the leading WoW consumers, holds panda's as a religious sacred animal. For that reason, you will never see Panda's in WoW being attacked, killed, and definitely not playable. In fact I believe in Warcraft 3, they didn't even have the Panda guy in the Chinese versions of the game, although I'm not 100% sure.
It sucks because I personally loved playing the Panda guy in Warcraft 3, but it will never happen in WoW. Too many upset chinamen would make Blizzard sales drop horrendously.
Pandas are not a religious or sacred animal in China. The Chinese government just doesn't want to see any violence against Pandas in any form, in any media, as it goes against their attempts to curb poaching. They are a symbol of China, not a sacred animal.
I'm not sure if the Brewmaster was in the Chinese version of WC3, but I know that the Chinese Community was aware of it. Originally the Brewmaster wore a samurai-like set of armor, and Blizzard changed this to appease the Chinese Community.
And I honestly think that if Blizzard would do something when adding in the Pandaren, such as raising awareness about the situation of Pandas as an endangered species, all of this might be a moot point.
I desperately want to see them as a playable race.
Yet again, this is absolutely incorrect. As I've posted several times,
this
is the only news source that I've found regarding any sort of law in China regarding violence to images of pandas. Only one province has a law that I can find that has anything to do with the exploitation of panda imagery - and the article does not even say whether or not that passed.
China originally had problems with Pandaren in WC3 because the characters were wearing Japanese-style clothing. This was altered, and all was fine.
If China had problems with violence against imagery of pandas, then how in the world did they ever release Kung Fu Panda in China? Why are there dubs of Ranma 1/2 into Chinese?
Pandaren aren't in WoW because Blizzard hasn't decided to add them. That's the long and the short of it.
Now, in regards to Naga: Tauren and Draenei have hooves instead of feet, and they don't actually wear boots as boots - instead, they look sort of like ankle braces. While it would require extra coding, the leg armor could go on the Naga's waist, while the boots could simply appear as an armored bracer on the tail.
Post by
Claggi
I think these races should all get their
own expansion
.
Other than gnolls, surely the other three can be fitted to future expansions... I'll figure out how!
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