Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Little Things

This is what happens when you base an expansion around playable Panda People.

"No, seriously, guys. Our morbidly obese, karate-fighting cartoon teddy bear people are pretty gnarly."

I'm picturing the guys making TOR and GW2 maniacally cackling and high-fiving each other after hearing about 'Mists of Panda Land'. The really amazing thing is how BioWare and ArenaNet dodged a huge bullet here and how much of a failed opportunity this was for Blizzard.

Just one little tiny optical change, just one tweak like changing 'Kung Fu Pandas' to 'Dragon Men', or 'Tiger Warriors', and it's a totally different ballgame. It's ridiculous - but that one little aesthetic decision could change the MMO landscape for years. Pandas just violently altered MMO history.


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