Comments on: World of Warcraft’s Yeti

By: thylo

thylo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:33:19 +0000

yeah Blizzard (the company that makes and hosts WoW) takes all kinds of liberties with the design of its game fauna. the crocs have six legs! (they call them crocolisks though).

but at least they gave these yetis nails instead of claws, and incisors instead of a host of fangs.
but of course, it’s just entertainment and not a serious attempt at a zoo.

By: Ftero

Ftero — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:51:02 +0000

Actually Rappy, they have a Minotaur race that you can actually play, they’re called Taurens. I’m not really sure why they call the creature above Yeti. There are still Wendigo in WOW, I think you’d first see them at lower levels and then the higher level you get you’d start to see Yeti. The WOW developers have said that they have added in little quirks like that all over the game, and they have. There are references to other games, movies, TV shows, so it’s not surprising that they’ve added something as popular as a Yeti to the game.

By: Rappy

Rappy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:48:01 +0000

I don’t play WoW, but I can say that it somewhat resembles a few of the more modern interpretations of Minotaurs where you have an almost Sasquatchoid creature with horns and hooves.

By: enjoyment

enjoyment — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:31:41 +0000

Doctor Atlantis u missed ur chance, i had me a sweet yeti cape, but sold it on the AH for a couple silver hehe.

By: Emonix

Emonix — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:56:18 +0000

As a WoW player myself, I can tell you the black yeti on the first picture is indeed a cryptid. It’s a rare spawn!

Gridbug - Leeroy Jenkin is not a yeti hunter, he’s a dragonkin hunter … which actually killed him. LOL

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:49:25 +0000

Oh man, this completely skipped my mind when I first posted. There’s also a creature called “Nessy” in the game.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Nessy

By: Nachzehrer

Nachzehrer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:02:24 +0000

The WOW Yeti looks like California’s Billiwhack Monster, a bad-tempered creature with ram’s horns. It haunts a dairy in Ventura County.

By: Cryptonut

Cryptonut — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:17:17 +0000

Perhaps the WOW Yeti designer is from Texas, and included his own “Hook ‘Em Horns” touch to the design.

By: doctoratlantis

doctoratlantis — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:46:01 +0000

I don’t think this grainy photo of a “Yeti” proves that they exist inside World-of-Warcraft. Where’s the body? Until I am wearing Yeti-pelt armor, I just can’t believe.

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:35:12 +0000

This is just another reason why I have to start playing WoW