WOW Pandaren is "no joke"

Pandaren were used as the center of two of Blizzard's April Fools jokes.

I'm not buying that they're not a joke. sell WoW account

Metzen needs to admit that he ran out of ideas and is scraping the very bottom of the lore barrel. WoW accounts cheap

I'm as big a wow hater as you'll find, but I'm not totally against this idea.

Panda's seem all cute and docile, but they'd still tear you apart given the chance.  Fits in perfect with the Monk class, which was always a personsl P'n'P favorite of mine.  Will it bring me back to WoW?  I doubt it, but I'll definitely be spending a few hours on my brothers account on release

I was around for BOTH of those April Fool's jokes, buy cheap WoW gold one in Frozen Throne (iirc) and one in WoW, and I CERTAINLY initially thought this was some kind of joke.  In my opinion, it would be better if it were, but since he's saying it's not....more power to them. Whatever.

I still think that the things that make up the totality of THIS expansion....are horrible. It's the first expansion I'm not buying.  I've discovered that I'm now not just burnt out on WoW....I'm burnt out on Blizzard. I've been a loyal fan though the RTS game series through the Diablo series and through WoW.  It's just time to throw in the towel.

It's an April FOOL's part of the "lore" if you can even CALL that being part of the lore.  And you can rationalize some amount of seriousness to the other races, except maybe the gnomes, but it's hard to rationalize there being anything serious about pandas, and Pokemon style pet battles.....and even MORE simplified talents.  It just looks like they're catering the game now to children.  Maybe everyone doesn't feel this way, but some of us do. And I'm a LONG time Blizzard girl.  Blizzard was one of the first dev companies I really loved and bought ALLL their games (except for Starcraft 2 because I wasn't that into the first one).  I'm just very disappointed with this turn.  It's okay....we're all entitled to have opinions about it.1. Pandaren existed in Warcraft lore very minorly role AS A JOKE. Their introduction was initially an April Fool's joke, and their inclusion in WC3 was an easter-egg reference to said joke. Their next reference was again, as an April Fool's joke for WoW Pandaren Express.

2. Blizzard claims that Pandaren were one of the most requested additions to the game. That's funny because it seems to me that a great deal of people, even including people who do or have played WoW, think that they're a terrible addition to the game.

Keep spouting the WoW hater cop-out all you want. it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people think that Pandaren are a terrible addition to the game.