BLIZZCON

I just finished watching the first day of Blizzcon coverage via livestream. Wow!

Or should I say WoW?

 I wasn't sure I wanted to buy a virtual ticket.  I kept dithering about it, until I realized I actually had both today and tomorrow off and I could watch it LIVE.  So I bought the ticket yesterday, and boy, I don't regret it.  There's just something incredibly exciting to be hearing things the moment they're announced.   I felt very snobby, to tell you truth, in Chat talking about things that were announced 30 seconds previously.

Mist of Pandaria is definately the new expansion, no big surprise. What is cool is that all the speculation that Pandaren would be cross-faction was totally confirmed.  Plus, there a lot of other features- a talent system overall, new "PvE Scenarios", and Pet Combat, which has already been dubbed Wowkemon.

Naturally, on learning that Pandas were cross-faction, my first thought was, "Can they talk to each other?"  I guess that what I get for belonging to a cross-faction guild for the last month.  If Pandaren could communicate cross faction, that would be a huge help to the AAMS, although the sudden influx of pandas would be interesting to explain ICly.

Fortunately, someone asked Chris Metzen about the language issue.  Unfortunately, he said he preferred not to answer that question, as he did not recall what the dev team had done about it.

Pandarens don't pick sides until level 10.  I'm very curious how the dev team decided to handle the issue of suddenly not being able to communicate with your level 11 brethren.  As one of my fellow RPers said, Metzen's non-answer may mean they forgot!

There was a demo of the Pandaren starter area for people to play.  Maybe one of them will be able to give us the low down on the language issue.