So.. no pandas (sensitivity).. what about White Tigers?

Well it is a fantasy world, so why not just make a creature that looks like a panda but is sufficiently made up that it can't be described as a real panda. Just looks kinda similar.

I don't know, maybe they can put horns on it

Giant Panda Attack!!!
http://www.newmoanyeah.com/2002-revi...nda_attack.php

eudas

No, I'm one of the people that haven't found them. Sigh...

For anyone who has read the article in part, or in full, about the white tiger...another way of looking at the inbreeding and deformities the author calls abhorations, is to look at domesticated dogs...The vast majority of dog breeds are the inbred, deformed descendants of wolves and still have over 95% common DNA. If folks create new "forms" of tiger, the saddest thing is the time and energy not being put into conservation of the species being lost...as for me...I capped a white Tiger after training him as a Dire White Tiger and I named him Argus...After reading the article, I might have to change his name to Lenny and buy him a bunny to call "George" to love and pet..."Tell be again about the rabbits, George..." <BANG!> poor, poor kitty...

lol.. good one..

just make it a spirit panda that's alredy dead...your not killing it...it gets tired.

Or just make it immortal.

Someone should make A Panda IWAY team...Don't kill a vitrual panda but go ahead and skin a dog, priorities seem to be out of order, Maybe we should ban the wolf too cause it could be sensitive to ppl who got attacked by wolfs or have dead wolf pets. Then maybe Disney could ban the bear because its too much like Winnie the Pooh, Hell ditch the dune lizard cause it resembles the Geico mastcot, OR BETTER YET LETS JUST TURN THIS GAME INTO SOME DUMB PLAYHOUSE DRESSUP WHERE ALL THESE EMO SENSITIVE WEIRDO CAN RESPECT EACH OTHERS CULTURES NO MATTER HOW ABSURD IT IS WHILE NORMAL PPL HAVE TO BEND OVER TO THIS RIDICULOUS CENSORSHIP.


ahhh.. I feel much better now.

Not to be blunt... but your comment is extremely racist and retarded. Not only did you made yourself look like a fool, but you also verbally insulted the Chinese's respect for the pandas. And no, you aren't funny either.
Normal people huh? so are Chinese not normal now? watch your mouth kid, the problem with free speech and no censorship is that pointless comments like yours get to see the light of day, and thus wasting a few minutes of my life reading your post and lecturing you on it.

plz plz, this was a decent discussion of the topic at hand :-)

besides, I've eaten dog before (not going to say where so as to avoid someone flaming the locale) and I'm 100% American.. well, I do have feather in me, but I suppose that means 110% American:-)

I could see them adding polar bears to the shiverpeaks though :-)... hmm, but the one thing you should remember about bears (pandas or otherwise), from my understanding they are still broken (slowest attack speed with no benefits since the skill they use is a dud), so maybe no panda is a good thing..

Eating dog sounds offensive at first, but consider this: most dog-eating cultures eat dogs bred for eating. They still keep household pet dogs that they care for as well as any culture (not considering the highly spoiled, worthless variety of dog often found in the US and often treated better than most children)...but the dogs they eat are simply best for eating...it's what they were meant for. Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE dog lover (as pet, not dinner)...but I know the difference between a pet dog, show dog, working dog, hunting dog and food. Anyone morally oppossed to eating dog should feel the same way about eating any mammal...especially pigs! Pigs are terribly intelligent...but damn....I loves my bacon!

As for not using the panda as a fighting creature in the game makes a bit of sense...I mean, they are endangered and mostly quite docile...I vote panda as minipet! or like the bunny or frog...there to see, not to kill. Having a panda in battle just seems a little stupid anyway...like being mauled by a Koala or torn to shreds by a kangaroo (which, by the way, were once 9ft tall and carnivorous).....def-def-definately a minipet...definately.

That's kinda true in the states with some pets.. People kill other people every day and most people don't even think about it, or care when people get lenient sentences.. But you'll hear some story of some sick nut killing some kittens or a dog, and people scream bloody murder and want his head. I remember a story locally, where a guy was facing 9 years in prison for killing someones cat. Crazy.

Pandas are for teh jappy stuff. CHARM THE CRAB! (and btw Pandas are not very different from ordinary bears in character, so they even they look cute they are 100% bears)

The reason I assume is that pet's kinda' represent true innocence. Their not really smart enough to premeditate anything truly sinister. They live with us because we chose for them to.
To kill someones beloved pet will send shockwaves through society because this point just hit's home so hard. 'To kill a mockingbird' if you will. For those who don't know what that means.
It is said that to kill a mockingbird is a sin becuase all they do is sing their hearts out for us all day long. It is mostly metephoric in meaning. There has also been film and written material about it (the book is excellent btw). Funnily enough, in reality, mocking birds are as terititorial and aggressive as any wild bird. Still, the point remains.
The only problem is, we live in a world where the value of human life seems to have slipped into a grey area for some. Really quite tragic. Oh well...

The whole panda thing is a sign of the games industry maturing. It's a good thing. I do not know the specifics about the panda law, but I would imagine that their is a lot of meaning in it for the Chinese people. Maybe something that is not so obviously apparent at first.
Having a panda as a mini-pet would be nice though. Have you ever had a party wipe and just seen your pet standing over you (still idling) when all the chaos has lifted? It's makes it seem like they are 'protected' by the game, or that they are just toys (no one 'kills' toys).
I just wish my baby Kuunavang sounded as sweet and soothing as a mockingbird .

ssssssssst....

Greenpeace will come to guildwars if we don't watch out

btw, this wasn't meant as a thread to reverse the panda decision. It's law and its a target country, so I agree it should stay. It was more or less a discussion about how it may pan out into other levels. Is it just about the law or is it about sensitivity. If it's about sensitivity, how far does that go. I think there are people who read topics and respond without reading anything else, so maybe this will help: NO CHANGE IN PANDA STATUS. HOW DOES THIS AFFECT OTHER ISSUES. :-)

I vote to make panda as minipet, i see it as reasonable solution.

Your absolutely right, I was being ridiculous and I woulda respected everything you typed until saying "watch your mouth kid" which just pissed me off. Now all i have to say is "watch your mouth gramps".

Well, atleast you did get his point. Now stop being a dick and everything will be fine

All I have to say is "I stole Ling Wong"

She's mine, all mine I tells ya.

Ahh it's this thread again, as to say in WoW there is a panda mini pet, one that you can put back in its cage and let it come back out.