MoP seems to finally be getting the love it deserved (especially Pandaren) over the past couple years and all this newfound respect and love for the expansion makes me wonder just how much better MoP would have done (and WoW as a whole for that matter) if Kung Fu Panda was out of the picture. I’m sure you all remember how absolutely chaotic it was when MoP was announced, and at least to me, I can’t remember such a split in public opinion about an expansion before release and almost all of the hate for it being directly from people’s comparisons to Kung Fu Panda.
That being said, do you guys think MoP would’ve done better if Kung Fu Panda wasn’t a thing? Or would it still turn out the same, thinking Pandaren and the expansion as “childish”? I personally think it would’ve done better, and WoW in general might be in a better spot in people’s minds.
I felt like Pandaren could have been more interesting if they had some Humans and Orcs are on there and would add to whole Chinese and Japanese Civilization like what Ionia did in League.
Considering how long it takes to make an expansion development would have started long before KFP was ever even heard of. That being the case I’d put money down that there was extremely little - if any - influence from it in MoP.
The controversy around MoP from what I recall was that Pandaren were a bit of a joke race in the RTS games (I’ve never played them so can’t confirm) and that the expansion was a blatant attempt to curry favor with the Chinese market. I don’t recall anything about Kung Fu Panda. Is the movie referenced at all in the game?
kung fu panda 1 was a great movie and i’m not accepting any opinions to the contrary. Haven’t seen kung fu panda 2 or 3 yet and cannot pass judgement on those.
Oh well in that case I don’t think the “durr goofy cartoon” nonsense would have been any different, I think KFP just gave the trolls more low-hanging fruit to use as ammo.
I don’t think so. When MoP came out. (I was still a kid.) Asked my father to buy me the new WoW Xpac and like always. He did! He always asked what they were about though he never played the game.(I later learned he just wanted to chat with me, love my dad<3.) I told him and without know anything about the game. He looked at me and said. “It’s probably going to be fun like all your other xpacs. Just it sounds like this was aimed at the Chinese market.”
Without understanding. I played the xpac and like always I had fun! I don’t think kung fu Panda did anything for it other than maybe actually bring in some people! I mean… heck if I saw a movie about fighting pandas.(Also I thought the movie was good!) I would probably imitate it as a kid and then see an add somewhere for WoW about being a kick butt panda. I would probably want to play that game.
I stand corrected.