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Originally Posted by Believe  Just make Pandaren look like Grizzly bears for the China version, they made model changes for them before... |
Exactly. I don't get what the issue is. They've said things that imply that the whole "China won't allow Panda-people" rumor is bullshit and other things that suggest it's true. I was under the impression that there were existing Chinese games that included playable Pandas, so that would seem to be a contradiction, but whatever.
Regardless, even if playable/killable panda-people was indeed the problem, it could be solved with little more than changing the skin to make them look like regular black or brown bears. The same exact model could be used. If the Chinese wanted to get really shitty and complain about the name it seems like it wouldn't be terribly hard to plug in some other name instead of Pandaren into the Chinese version of the game, but maybe I'm wrong there.
It just seems like there would be some easy ways around it, moreso than what they're already having to go through with all the WotLK content (including removing DK's entirely from what I've read), and releasing an expansion with playable Pandaren would doubtlessly bring in tons of new players from NA, Europe, and Japan.
Adding Pandaren seems like a no-brainer from a business standpoint. Just look how fucking excited people got about playable Frogloks in EQ.
