Looks like Blizzard has been listening. Following a petition to immortalize Robin Williams in the game, a non-player character called "Robin the Entertainer" was spotted in World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor.
Whether "Robin the Entertainer" actually makes it to the final cut of the expansion remains to be seen but the NPC really does exist. Spotted by WoW database site Wowhead, the NPC appears to be a djinn and looks a lot like "Genie" from the Disney movie Alladin which Williams lent his voice to.
WoW players are in agreement that the NPC is a fitting tribute to the actor who recently passed but many have pointed out that the model is not new, having been taken from the game's previous expansion. They're referring to Asaad, the third and final boss of the Vortex Pinnacle in Cataclysm.
If the exact same djinn appears in Warlords of Draenor, some will be disappointed because this means that Blizzard is simply recycling models. Others have argued, however, that probably the model is still in development and the NPC Wowhead found was just its first iteration. Still, others think that the NPC is capable of transforming and that the djinn is just one of its forms. It has also been speculated that "Robin the Entertainer" will replacing Perry Gatner from The Burning Crusade as a stand-up comedian for Shattrath's World's End Tavern.
There's no official word from Blizzard about a WoW tribute to Williams, but a "we're taking care of it" response after the petition came out was more than enough to satisfy many players. Given the overwhelming response at just the possibility of a tribute NPC being included in the coming expansion, Blizzard should definitely take this as a cue to keep on working on it.
While the NPC is included in game data for the expansion, it has not been reported to have appeared in any part of the beta as well. Players are very much aware that the "Robin the Entertainer" they saw now might be nowhere near what would be included in Warlords of Draenor when it comes out, but there is comfort in knowing that it's highly likely that Williams will be forever a part of one of his favorite games.
Aside from the djinn, two other NPC models were found by Wowhead in patch 6.0.1 of the beta build of Warlords of Draenor. One was a human male and the other was a human female, possible in reference to Williams' characters in Mork & Mindy and Mrs. Doubtfire, respectively.
