If you're taking this from one slide, you're taking it way out of context. I actually watched the presentation. They did say it was going to be a bit of a lull before crap really hit the fan (presumably with the other Old Gods and dealing with things like Sargaras and whatever we have to do with the Titans), but they never made it out to be silly like. Are there silly things, like the names of the Pandaren racials? Well, yeah. But WoW /always/ has silly things in it. Doesn't mean the whole emphasis is silly-like.
In fact, they made such an emphasis on how they want to get world pvp rolling again, it made me frown, because it's not something I generally want to deal with. And when I say WAR in all caps, I'm doing it because that's how they were saying it at the con. The WAR in Warcraft. That made me frown too, because the whole faction thing is stupid imo and a lot of the split doesn't even make sense. I could maybe see it if there was a third one with the nature loving and respecting people off on their own (nelves, tauren, draenei at the least, with worgen making sense because of the nelves involvement with them), but as is? Nelves with the ever destructive gnomes and dwarves? Tauren with the monstrosities that are the Forsaken? Doesn't make sense. Plus the whole, "Rawr, hate you, going to fight when there's this other big thing that's going to destroy the world as we know it," is so stupid too. Yeah, I'm probably the one being silly here, but as soon as I tried out Horde and saw how awesome Thrall was...I didn't want to fight them!
People just honed in on the pandaren, forgot that they've existed lorewise for like a decade, assumed it was a ripoff of Kung-fu Panda, and ran with it, completely missing the whole, "we're invading a peaceful, pristine land and ravaging the natural resources and shattering the peace," part.
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In fact, they made such an emphasis on how they want to get world pvp rolling again, it made me frown, because it's not something I generally want to deal with. And when I say WAR in all caps, I'm doing it because that's how they were saying it at the con. The WAR in Warcraft. That made me frown too, because the whole faction thing is stupid imo and a lot of the split doesn't even make sense. I could maybe see it if there was a third one with the nature loving and respecting people off on their own (nelves, tauren, draenei at the least, with worgen making sense because of the nelves involvement with them), but as is? Nelves with the ever destructive gnomes and dwarves? Tauren with the monstrosities that are the Forsaken? Doesn't make sense. Plus the whole, "Rawr, hate you, going to fight when there's this other big thing that's going to destroy the world as we know it," is so stupid too. Yeah, I'm probably the one being silly here, but as soon as I tried out Horde and saw how awesome Thrall was...I didn't want to fight them!
People just honed in on the pandaren, forgot that they've existed lorewise for like a decade, assumed it was a ripoff of Kung-fu Panda, and ran with it, completely missing the whole, "we're invading a peaceful, pristine land and ravaging the natural resources and shattering the peace," part.