Blizzard is notorious for playing pranks on its customers on April Fools' Day, including the pandaren as a fifth race in Warcraft III, the 2005 "Burgercraft" fast food chain idea, and the two-headed ogre and wisp racial ideas in WoW. My personal favorite is Caydiem's "Evil Patch Notes 1.11", which is still one of the best pieces of WoW satire out there.
Now, as the end of March quickly approaches, we have to wonder what Blizzard will pull this time. They have a lot of options. How about "The Great Sea" expansion, which would be entirely underwater? Better make friends with some warlocks and shamans quickly. Or an announcement that due to "overly rapid raiding progression," all trash mobs in Karazhan, Serpentshrine Cavern, and Tempest Keep will have their HP and numbers doubled? It would be neat to have some in-game changes, but that's unlikely. I'd love a joke where for one day, you have to CHANGE history in the Caverns of Time and see that the world would actually be a better place if you killed Medivh or Thrall. Then the next day, whoops, back to preserving the timeline!
What do you think Blizzard is going to do for April 1? What sort of pranks and tricks do you think would be neat to see?
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3-30-2007 @ 8:39AM
emir said...
They will announce Starcraft 2 , but due to huge epic-proportions hype ,same night they will say it was in fact April 1 joke. Blizzard website will be down for the next 6 months due to hacks by frustrated fans. Then they will announce World of Starcraft , but the project will be pulled back due to assassination of entire senior Blizzard staff . 2008 April 1. joke was that blizz is shuting down but there was no reaction in gaming world.
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3-30-2007 @ 8:45AM
Brandon Taylor said...
If they pull out the Great Sea prank, Hydrocane ftw.
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3-30-2007 @ 8:48AM
Savok said...
I hate April Fools, it's nothing but disruptive to anyone in charge of anything.
That said, Blizzard almost always have some wonderful piece of comedy, though I seem to remember last year's being "meh".
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3-30-2007 @ 9:35AM
Brad said...
I still think of those patch notes and chuckle every time I see Night Elf jumping around.
"Night Elves will now lose a small percentage of experience after jumping."
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3-30-2007 @ 9:39AM
Lenny said...
What about player created comedy? I know that a few officers and I are cooking up something good for our guild.
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3-30-2007 @ 10:11AM
robodex said...
I say 2.0.12 is an April Fool's joke of subtle proportions.
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3-30-2007 @ 10:13AM
Aurendar said...
Something humorous like changing all the guards in Stormwind into Abominations.
Now THAT would be funny!
~~Aurendar
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3-30-2007 @ 11:27AM
freehugz said...
Way to ruin the surprise!
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3-30-2007 @ 11:37AM
Reygar said...
they will announce details on the next expansion.
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3-30-2007 @ 12:04PM
Fort said...
"Improving faction with Timbermaw Hold will now decrease your faction with Argent Dawn, and visa versa, as we want to encourage players to make more important choices at higher levels."
Aldor? Scryers?
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3-30-2007 @ 1:22PM
J. Hatch said...
"Explosive nodes may now spawn in the place of select herbs and mines. Damage will be percentage based upon level."
Nightmare Vine anyone?
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3-30-2007 @ 1:37PM
jess said...
I loved it when Blizzard did the April Fool's day fake menu. Mmm serve me up some Moonfire Spam.
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3-30-2007 @ 4:52PM
Brian McBride said...
They will announce a fix to your class. No, that is too crewel.
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