Blizzard adds furries.

[Sheepherder]

So... quote speculations from random fansites and forums as proof?

Gaming journalism at it's finest.

[Ingmar]

Like "unnamed sources" are unique to gaming journalism.

[Rendakor]

I'd agree with everyone who doubts the truth of these claims, except the same mainstream fansites all called BE/Draenei early successfully.

[Merusk]

Goblins, combined with cross-faction x-fers = Horde Pop overcrowding inc. 

[Hindenburg]

You severely underestimate the popularity of furries.

[Lantyssa]

Tauren aren't all that popular for that assumption.  Though people will probably think it's okay to let that repressed fur out with Worgen since claws and fangs are cooler than hooves and hippies.

[Fordel]

There is a extremely large population of people wanting to be Worgens.


One of the longest running (if ridiculous) druid suggestions is "OMG WORGEN MOAD!!!"

[Azaroth]

A bigger factor, I think, will be the way the races are intentionally designed.

From looking at those Worgen females, I'd say they'll be probably be homofurrymagnets - Tauren women on the other hand, while hilarious especially in dance, just flat out aren't designed to be sexy to anyone in any way.

[Hindenburg]

Tauren aren't all that popular for that assumption.  Though people will probably think it's okay to let that repressed fur out with Worgen since claws and fangs are cooler than hooves and hippies.

Tauren are far too muscular and brutish for most of the furdom.

[Sheepherder]

I'd agree with everyone who doubts the truth of these claims, except the same mainstream fansites all called BE/Draenei early successfully.

They also called Pandaren Brewmasters for Brewfest.  If you throw enough shit at a wall some of it is sure to stick.

From looking at those Worgen females, I'd say they'll be probably be homofurrymagnets - Tauren women on the other hand, while hilarious especially in dance, just flat out aren't designed to be sexy to anyone in any way.

There aren't, in fact, any worgen female meshes or textures aside from that single mask, which would be useless to try to skew into a working face texture.  As such, it's unlikely to bear any resemblance to any character mesh that will ever exist.

[Azaroth]

But you doubt they'll be furry-friendly?

[Sheepherder]

But you doubt they'll be furry-friendly?

Like Tauren?

[Fordel]

The Women Worgen will be hot, the Draenei woman were too successful for any female race to NOT be hot ever again.

[Ingmar]

But you doubt they'll be furry-friendly?

Like Tauren?

The eyes on the mask alone are a dead giveaway, they're straight out of furry fantasyland.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Well to be fair, draenei women are probably the hottest looking race in wow bar none. Built in heels via the hooves, curves accentuated and a ridiculous posture coupled with sultry russian accent?

[Vash]

Well to be fair, draenei women are probably the hottest looking race in wow bar none. Built in heels via the hooves, curves accentuated and a ridiculous posture coupled with sultry russian accent?

Not to mention some of the best /silly emotes, even after they had to ditch the more provocative ones from TBC beta.

Hearing "Yes, they are real,....and they cut glass." still cracks me up when I hear it.  

[Sheepherder]

The eyes on the mask alone are a dead giveaway, they're straight out of furry fantasyland.

So, we're back to the Halloween mask.  Can I just assume that half the people here are going to be incomprehensible until after Blizzcon?  I should have known that this would happen as soon as someone trotted out the "Blizzard is just concealing their intentions!  It's a rush job!" rebuttal to the explanation that not only worgen were added as masks.

[Ingmar]

Do I have to put "If it really is worgen" as a qualification before every post, just for you?

[Sheepherder]

Do I have to put "If it really is worgen" as a qualification before every post, just for you?

It couldn't hurt.  I'm having a lot of trouble keeping up with all the speculative crazy and which people have quaffed the Kool-Aid.

[Lakov_Sanite]

FWIW those are not the old goblin textures on the masks, they are actually new ones, similar though upgraded, this was not done with the other masks that were released afterwards.

[Sheepherder]

FWIW those are not the old goblin textures on the masks, they are actually new ones, similar though upgraded, this was not done with the other masks that were released afterwards.

1. Yeah, it was done with the others.
2. You don't just copy game textures and drop them on a surface with a wildly different mesh.  Generally you don't even Photoshop it then drop it on another mesh, because that shit is incredibly hard.

[Simond]

So your proof about how it was done with the others as well is to link to the existing pic of the poorly-done "o shi-" masks. 
Why are you so adamant that it's not going to be worgen/goblins, anyway?

[Merusk]

Well, I think the biggest clue would be if Blizzard hired Doug Winger.  We're safe for now.

[Azaroth]

I knew I shouldn't have googled that name but I did anyway.

[Sheepherder]

So your proof about how it was done with the others as well is to link to the existing pic of the poorly-done "o shi-" masks. 
Why are you so adamant that it's not going to be worgen/goblins, anyway?

1. His proof is that the pictures clearly showed some difference unique to the goblin masks.  My counterpoint is "fuck no, look again."
2. I'm adamant that supposition based on Halloween masks is stupid on a magnitude normally reserved for the Blizzard forums.
3. That being said, it takes a greater mind than mind to connect "giant hole in the ocean" to "werewolves."  Goblins at least aren't completely out there.

[Ingmar]

I knew I shouldn't have googled that name but I did anyway.

So you're saying I shouldn't?

[Simond]

Yeah, your point was "Look at the masks again" and...looking at the masks again the goblins and worgen are clearly new textures and every other one clearly isnt. Except the female ogre, which is a hasty scan of an illustration from an RPG sourcebook with the hed pastede on yey

So I'm not quite sure what your point is, here.

E: That depends if you're at work or not, Ingmar. 

[Lakov_Sanite]

Yeah, your point was "Look at the masks again" and...looking at the masks again the goblins and worgen are clearly new textures and every other one clearly isnt. Except the female ogre, which is a hasty scan of an illustration from an RPG sourcebook with the hed pastede on yey

So I'm not quite sure what your point is, here.

E: That depends if you're at work or not, Ingmar. 

What he said.

Fake edit: I'll post again after they're announced at blizzcon to gloat.

[Merusk]

You mean there's a whole generation of internet goers who don't instantly get creeped out by the name?  Well hell, that explains the resurgence of other old memes.

[Hindenburg]

Wasn't familiar with that name, and am a bit impressed that furry futanari has been going on for so long.

[Ingmar]

You mean there's a whole generation of internet goers who don't instantly get creeped out by the name?  Well hell, that explains the resurgence of other old memes.

I've been on ye olde interwebs since circa 1992, and the name isn't familiar. I try really hard not to click on anything furry-related, so that might explain it. Whoever he is, he doesn't have a Wikipedia entry!

[pants]

3. That being said, it takes a greater mind than mind to connect "giant hole in the ocean" to "werewolves."  Goblins at least aren't completely out there.

The linkage for Worgen = Alliance = hole in ocean expansion I understand goes like this.

Theres the kingdom of Gilneas, which was around in WC1 or something, but noone has heard of since.  The closest you have in Wow is that big wall in silverpine forest, Gilneas is behind there.
Silverpine is full of worgen and stuff, sons of Arugal and the like.
Therefore, the retconned reason why noone has heard from Gilneas since they disappeared behind their wall, is that everyone has turned into Worgen.
And just in time for the new expansion (which is the rumors are true, is the big hole in the ocean, which is next door to Gilneas), something happens to make some of the Worgen become more 'human' and friendly to the Alliiance.  And probably add in that the place you set sail to the whirlpool thingy is somewhere in Gilneas.
Thus, new race!


Thats the logic I've heard anyway.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I didn't even think it was ret-conned, i just figured all the humans in gilneas were infected with something.

[Triforcer]

3. That being said, it takes a greater mind than mind to connect "giant hole in the ocean" to "werewolves."  Goblins at least aren't completely out there.

The linkage for Worgen = Alliance = hole in ocean expansion I understand goes like this.

Theres the kingdom of Gilneas, which was around in WC1 or something, but noone has heard of since.  The closest you have in Wow is that big wall in silverpine forest, Gilneas is behind there.
Silverpine is full of worgen and stuff, sons of Arugal and the like.
Therefore, the retconned reason why noone has heard from Gilneas since they disappeared behind their wall, is that everyone has turned into Worgen.
And just in time for the new expansion (which is the rumors are true, is the big hole in the ocean, which is next door to Gilneas), something happens to make some of the Worgen become more 'human' and friendly to the Alliiance.  And probably add in that the place you set sail to the whirlpool thingy is somewhere in Gilneas.
Thus, new race!


Thats the logic I've heard anyway.

I would be astonished if this isn't 100% correct.

[Sheepherder]

Yeah, your point was "Look at the masks again" and...looking at the masks again the goblins and worgen are clearly new textures and every other one clearly isnt. Except the female ogre, which is a hasty scan of an illustration from an RPG sourcebook with the hed pastede on yey

So I'm not quite sure what your point is, here.

Is this one scanned as well?  You seem to be the expert on these things.



I'm sure that's either from a sourcebook, or a straight rip from the game going through several days worth of photoshop scripting in order to skew a 3D image into proper proportions for a 2D image, because it couldn't possibly just be new art.  That would be crazy talk.

EDIT: Slightly more snark.

EDIT2: They also all appeared in the same prepatch, I can't check the PTR versions though.

EDIT3:

Fake edit: I'll post again after they're announced at blizzcon to gloat.

I should probably point out that my argument isn't so much that it's inconceivable that Worgen is a race, it's that people are working themselves up into a righteous motherfucking froth because of the retarded Halloween masks.  However, it would be a retarded race.  Even the plausible retcon and reasoning behind such a decision is pretty bad (really?  You can't sail from anywhere else but Gilneas?  The werewolves are our friends in killing the brown green people?)

So yeah, call me a skeptic.