BlizzCon World of Warcraft Q&A: Swimming Mounts, Deathwing, and Panda Fiction

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A panel of World of Warcraft developers took questions today during Blizzard's BlizCon convention, revealing a few upcoming details on the wildly popular MMO.

The biggest news so far is that ground mounts will now learn how to swim post-Lich King.

"In the first content patch that follows Wrath of the Lich King, all of your ground mounts will no longer dismount in water, and they swim now," said a Blizzard representative. Creative VP Chris Metzen announced that popular Warcraft lore character Deathwing will be coming into the game in the future.

The panel also noted that while they may work the Panda-like Pandaren race into the fiction of the world, they ran into some trouble with China's perception of the race, noting that they had to be sensitive to such a large base of customers.

Also mentioned was a possible five-man "interaction" with Arthas, the title villain in the upcoming expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

From The Chatty
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    October 11, 2008 2:00 PM

    Fucking Chinese ruining my Pandaren.

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      October 11, 2008 2:21 PM

      Would the equivalent for Americans be a race of humanoid Bald Eagles?

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        October 11, 2008 2:25 PM

        Americans don't have a weird fetishism for Bald Eagles unlike China does with Pandas

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          October 11, 2008 5:49 PM

          www.freerepublic.com

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            October 11, 2008 11:35 PM

            The people on that site scare the holy fuck out of me. Same with indymedia and democraticunderground. Ideologues are scary...but freepers are in a constant state of outrage that is just amazing...I think they'd have a vein in their heads explode from all of that after a while?

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          October 12, 2008 8:41 AM

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            October 12, 2008 1:59 PM

            Yeah, lets make an american flag race in WoW please.You can't compare anything that america has to the china's ideology to that freaking animal.

            Take your own advice and think about it again.

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      October 11, 2008 6:59 PM

      We wouldn't care if they made some fucked up bald eagle race that drinks alcohol all the time.

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        October 11, 2008 7:21 PM

        ...don't forget the guns that the Eaglen use all the time...They shoot a pistol to pass the peas [like we used to do...]

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          October 11, 2008 11:18 PM

          A bald-eagle with a 1911 and a bottle of malt liquor would be a badass addition to WoW.

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            October 12, 2008 4:32 AM

            It definitely would be a typical image of how many Americans are perceived outside of their country.

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              October 12, 2008 1:08 PM

              Someone needs to photoshop a picture of the muppet's Sam Eagle with a Colt 45 malt liquor in one hand, a Colt 1911A1 in the other, and the words "Colt 45 Akimbo" below.

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        October 12, 2008 6:18 AM

        Yup. There is Dark Elf quest in WAR that requires the player to kill a mother eagle and steal its egg. OH NO, alert DHS !

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      October 11, 2008 7:19 PM

      I saw screenshots of chinese clients with different undead modeling and textures. Quite bizzarre requeriments.

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      October 11, 2008 11:54 PM

      Those goddamn commies...

      /angryfist

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