Yeah, as you may have heard, this Panda thing was announced yesterday. Monks , pandas , no big deal, right? Anyway, off to read through the blogosphere…
ALL OF TEH POSTS!
OK, so, after digging myself out from the mass of posts in the last 12 hours (seriously, guys, I’m very impressed), here’s a quick roundup of the blogosphere beat so far:
Mists of Pandaria Talent System
- Rades is going through the DK talent system with a fine-tooth comb.
- Kurn has a detailed analysis of the Paladin talent system
- Sunfyre’s going through the druid talent tree
Loved it
- Guarded By The Light’s Miri was very impressed with her hands-on impressions of Pandaria
- The Grumpy Elf is one of the less grumpy bloggers today – he’s impressed that Blizzard listened
- The Ancient Gaming Noob might not be wild about pandas – but his daughter’s totally thrilled
- Player vs Developer is impressed by Blizzard’s panda gambit
- Azuriel of In An Age is really impressed with some of the talent possibilities
- I was really impressed by the way Blizzard is targetting underserved parts of the player population
Didn’t love it
- Forever A Noob feels neutral – he thinks the expansion could be good if it breaks us out of the endgame treadmill
- WoW Alone thinks that Blizzard has run out of inspiration
- Fel Concentration just wasn’t very impressed by any of it
- Shintar has some interesting analysis on just why the announcements made her shudder
- Divine Plea was like what? Pandas? Pokemon? Really?
- Elder Game is fascinating as always commenting on the WoW Talent tree changes from a dev’s perspective
- Nils thinks Blizzard is being ruled by focus groups . Oh, and he’s not wild about pandas either
- Chris at Game By Night thinks it’s less Mists of Pandaria, more Mists of Desperation
- I thought that the new talent system was another example of Blizzard in a war against mathematics
WoW vs SWTOR
- Syp at Bio Break thinks we’re seeing a new side of Blizzard
- I think there’s more to the “buy annual subscription, get Diablo free” deal than meets the eye
See you later today for Day 2 of Blizzcon!
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If by “Didn’t Love It” you mean kind of neutral, then that describes me. I’m not really into the skins on the characters and the races. I enjoy the gameplay. Pandaren neither excited me nor turned me off. My post says that, and I also say that this expansion could be a good thing if it gets us out of the same repeating patterns.
When you have listed my post with others who are outright naysayers, I just felt like I had to make that distinction. I’m not really negative at all about the new stuff.
@Dinaer – That’s very much why I listed the posts as “Didn’t love it” rather than “hated it”. There’s such a range of reactions there – from “OH GOD I QUIT” to several “meh” or “hmm” reactions – that otherwise I’d have had to give every post its own category!
However, I’ve rewritten your snippet to make that clearer. Thanks!
Perhaps mine wasn’t as clear-cut, but you can put me in the “Love It” category.
@Azuriel – Thanks! Adding you.
I wouldn’t say that they are ruled by focus groups. But I get that this is your creative freedom, Hugh
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At last! Something clear I can uednrtsand. Thanks!
@Nils – Summarising is hard
Focus groups seemed to be a common theme in your post. Happy to edit if you feel there’s a spine to it I missed, though!
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