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Actually, they did, Tyr. I could be talking out of my butt, but I don't believe Warcraft 3 was sold in China. They definitely had problems with the samurai panda, since the Japanese and Chinese cultures don't mesh well, and because it encouraged the killing of pandas which is against Chinese law.

Sticky please.

This post gets bumped from pages back all the time, and it's a very interesting read, I've had it in my favourites for ages since I couldn't be bothered finding it again.

Again, do you have a link of any kind to back this up Az (or anybody else)?

I heard about all this a lot, but there's never any evidence... I mean, all I'm asking is for 1 shred of evidence, and I'll gladly agree.

If you do 'Warcraft 3 + china' search on google, you don't get article about censorship or what not - you get the roster for the Chinese team that won the WC3 WSVG tournament in 2005.

From all account, the 'China = No panda' rumor was started because people were disapointed that we got Draenei and not pandaren in TBC, and for some reason everybody bought into it.


Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:25am by Tyrandor

Actually I do remember that particular arguement. Before Draenei were announced Pandaren was the hopeful race for Alliance players. A Blizz rep said at that time they weren't making plans for Pandas to be a playable race in WoW due to a dispute with the Chinese government.

He never specified that they were going to use Pandaren for BC but were legally unable to, he just said they wouldn't be a playable race in BC. If that makes sense, you are keeping up just fine with Blizzards loopholes.

Except a Blizzard employee never actually said that.

Here:



I don't know why this rumor (Because yeah, that's all it is) is taken at face value by so many people.

Edited, Aug 26th 2008 11:50am by Tyrandor

The only problem the Chinese had with the Pandarans were that they had Japanese clothing. Blizzard changed their outfit and this is no longer a problem. It is interesting how these rumors get blown absolutely out of proportion though. People hear something and since its those strange foreign Chinese people, they just accept it. I imagine the Chinese actually like the Pandaren very much now.

The two rumors about China that were true: They didn't like their national animal being depicted in Japanese clothing, this was changed. You can't show bones in china, they have undead models with no bones showing.

I found this thread and found it extremely interesting. The debate on whether a new playable race would be Nathrezim or Worgen in particular. So I looked up Worgen on wowwiki to see what I could find.

It seems that people are pointing out Xorothian Plains in a starting area and Wolfenhold in the other as proof of Worgen or Nathrezim but if you read Velinde's Journal in WoW it says that the Worgen are fighting and losing on their home world against "Lords of the Emerald Flame." If they aren't Nathrezim I will shard my gear and give all of my gold to the first level 1 that spawns in front of me in the Valley of Trials.

If they are both on Xoroth then it's not too hard to assume that it could be Worgen just as easily as Nathrezim. In fact I would say much easier. Once again from searching on wowwiki most of the hard info on Worgen come from Kirin Tor who know of their existence because Worgen occasionally get brought to Azeroth after magical mistakes. It also says that no one knows precisely how to open the portals for them to come through. This to me, leaves sufficient room to write in extenuating circumstances without messing with canon to much. For example, the rifts they came through were never made correctly and they were addled, hence the bloodthirstiness they are known for. This is just an idea of something that could possibly fit of course. It doesn't fit perfectly of course because of The Book of Ur which talks about the Worgen on their homeworld being evil but I am not Chris Metzen. Then again he has made some continuity errors too hasn't he.

I personally think it would work better for the Worgen to be a playable race than the Nathrezim. I would also like to see it more. I've always thought the Worgen looked awesome.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Worgen

http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Book_of_Ur

http://www.wowwiki.com/Velinde%27s_Journal

i agree. If you think about it, BC was released about 2 years after vanilla, and wotlk is being released about 2 years after BC..... guess..we can expect to see a new expansion in about 2 years, so we will find out then.

we'll find out before its actually announced, as always lol

but if we follow the way Blizz brings expensions / area patches out : Azeroth (main) > Outland > back to Azeroth > next ? back to Outland maybe ?

There is still 1 critical place missing in Outlands, Deathwing's Lair, which should be kinda East of Netherstorm / N-E of Hellfire. And we are are missing our General Paladin and his lover. They could be fighting Deathwing on his island, which could be added in a expension OR patch onto Outland.

/Necropost.

With the Cataclysm trademark announcement I think reviving this thread is warranted. Looks like it refers to the sea expansion.

With so much power in our hands......it is so tempting to use it for evil....MWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA