Whoah.

[noahgibbs]

Every so often I go and check on how World of Warcraft is doing.

Um....

So, in the newest expansion, you can play a bouncy panda monk. Or start a farm (not kidding), with daily quests to raise crops. Or have your (vanity, non-useful) pets fight each other.

So then, WoW ran out of ideas after Cataclysm? Or was Cataclysm this bad? I stopped paying attention mostly after Wrath of the Lich King...

I don't really want to see what happens when the WoW guys start seriously trying to steal ideas from Farmville.

Comments

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Pandarens apparently were around in one of the original two Warcraft games - people have been calling for them for a while now.

Not sure what to say about the rest, except that the landscape for MMOs has changed over the years. I don't think you would be remiss in using the phrase "dumbed down". Then again, I haven't played in a while, so maybe it's not all bad...

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Pandaren were indeed in the earlier Warcraft games. So were sheep. However, I'm pretty sure they're not a playable race yet. Though the way things are going, maybe next expansion...