Origin as a joke is moot, they were an actual unit in WC3 and are an established race in the lore, just their background gets established in Mists. Are you saying having a brand new story be the basis for an expansion is a bad idea?
Or do you have something against Pandaren being in the game? Too kiddie? You can always quit, bro.
Also, they're not out of lore. Turalyon and Alleria are still alive...somewhere. The Emerald Dream game files are still being updated. Azshara, as you said. Kil'Jaeden is still alive, and the Burning Legion still exists.
I'm interested in the next expansion, but I don't judge things by their cover either.
1. I am quitting after I get into a raid and kill Deathwing (on normal, don't care about heroic). It is a nice closure point for me being the last of the original Warcraft villains
2. Pandariens were a joke, literally. They threw it in as an update while developing WC3 and people asked about them so much Metzen went ahead and scribbled out some lore and made them mercenaries in WC3 and TFT.
3. I meant major villains, and Azshara may as well be dead at this rate. Maybe they can recycle the Legion or even the Nerubians if they like, heck they could make a new Lich King at this point. But my point is they are out of original villains so now it's either make new from scratch or recycle.
4. Emerald Dream will be like Pandaria, they will withhold it until they are out of ideas and then spring it on you as another expansion.
5. I have no interest in MoP, the 4.3 raid will mark for me the end of warcraft, WoW, and most likely MMOs in general. To me they have more or less destroyed any strong point that could be made about it or MMOs in general.
I hope TOR pulls heavily from WoWs fanbase, because all that is left there are teenagers and stupid college students. Inside a game without any sense of community where you can do whatever you want without ramifications. Then the same problems that plague WoW may transfer over to TOR.
you can fix this game overnight by making blizzard a private company again
While nice, it won't happen. I think once a company reaches that point of becoming public it is essentially a one-way street. I would suspect the steps, time, and money required to revert back to private would be such it would render the company unprofitable for such a time it'll eventually go bankrupt. Once you go public and you succeed the company is more or less at the mercy of the whim of the largest stockholders. They don't give a fuck about how the company runs or what is made, as long as their stock value continues to increase.