WoW.com's April Fools Round-up
by Anne Stickney 
Apr 2nd 2010 at 9:00AM
April Fools! Or at least it was yesterday. Some love the pranks, some find the pranks boring, some wish to see the pranks fall down a dark, dark hole, never to return, possibly to be eaten by a grue. Regardless of your personal feelings on the matter, we've gathered a short list of Blizzard and WoW-related pranks across the web:
Blizzard Pranks
Blizzard Pranks
- World of Warcraft EPEEN: New from Blizzard, the Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number system!
- WoW Armory Tuskarr Invasion: Folks checking out the armory may have noticed their characters transformed to tuskarr, their achievements reported as 'cheesed,' and a whole lot of gear ninjaed and summarily vendored
- Battle.net Matchmaking Service: Battle.net decides to play eHarmony and place lonely gamers with suitable partners
- Battle.net Neural Interface: New from the Blizzard Store, the Neural Interface promises a lifelike gaming experience
- Blizzard Mobile Games: Up for 2010 from Blizzard Mobile Games are Blackthorne 2: Thorne Harder, and Queen's Quest!
- Diablo Gamer Blanket and Body Pillow: Wave goodbye to the cold as best as you can while swaddled in this Diablo 'gamer blanket!'
- Diablo Deckard Cain GPS System: Now you can listen to Deckard drone while you drive!
- El's Extreme Anglin': El reports on the latest Cataclysm feature: Aquariums!
- MMO-Champion/Paragon/Premonition: MMO-Champion breaks the news that Paragon will be moving to US servers come Cataclysm and merging with the US Guild Premonition. Sponsored by AXE!
- Nihilum: Nihilum breaks some rules and brings us screens and video from the Cataclysm alpha
- Wowhead: Wowhead, er, TACOhead brings news of a new in-game item, the Hellfire Kickin' Taco Supreme!
- Tankspot: Tankspot announces their change to Farmspot
- Warcraft Pets: Breanni fills us in on some new non-combat pet... er... features coming out in Cataclysm
- World of Raids: World of Raids reports on the new Observation Deck and Spectate features coming in Cataclysm
- The Guild: The Guild proudly announces its new foray into the world of animation!
- Curse.com: Curse.com fills us in on Cataclysm -- exclusively available for the IPad
- WoW.com: And of course, there's us. Our day was filled with takeover after takeover, from Twilight to Muscle March to Saturn Six -- we've decided to return to WoW news. For now...
Love them or hate them, at least they're done for the year, right? Now we can all breathe a sigh of relief and start believing what we see again. Did you laugh? Did you see a clever prank we missed? Or did you hide indoors all day and fervently wait for it to all be over? Let us know -- and check out the gallery below for screenshots from the various sites listed above!
Filed under: News items, Humor
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Liz Apr 2nd 2010 9:07AM
As an added note; if your internet is lagging a bit you can see the background for the armory has changed so there's a bubble hiding behind the search bar saying "hey, have you guys seen a bucket around here?" (coming from the undead dude)
If your computer is loading it real quick; try hard refreshing, (apple + r for mac user *runs from pitch forked mob*)
elstor Apr 2nd 2010 9:51AM
http://www.wowarmory.com/_images/theme/wrath/bg-t.jpg shows a picture of the background if your computer is too fast (like mine)
Tim Apr 2nd 2010 10:01AM
So thats how you refresh on a mac!
f5 on PC.
elstor Apr 2nd 2010 10:07AM
Also, another official one from Blizz- Deathwing speaks!
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=24038738256&sid=1
video_game_master91 Apr 2nd 2010 2:38PM
You can also just right-click the page and select "View Background Image".
Fletcher Apr 2nd 2010 9:06AM
I'm very glad it's over. Being bombarded with stupid jokes all over the internet got tiring after the first hour or so.
Raze Apr 2nd 2010 9:47AM
Every piece of April Fool's crap was worth it for the update my favorite webcomic got yesterday.
http://www.nofna.com
Choose "Pika" from the dropdown list. It single handedly made up for years of terrible April fools jokes beside it.
Icewalker Apr 2nd 2010 10:07AM
That...that was amazing.
alamos Apr 2nd 2010 10:07AM
I'm pretty sure it's called April Fool's Day, not Hour. No offense, but by this point in both Blizzard and WoW's lifespan, haven't you come to expect this?
Jason Apr 2nd 2010 10:42AM
Just because we know they will do it, doesn't mean we have to think it is funny.
Mr. Tastix Apr 2nd 2010 10:36AM
@alamos: Yes, but that's the point, we *expect* it now. There's absolutely no surprise or shock value when people treat the day with a sense of paranoia about being pranked, everyone is expecting the unexpected.
I like the creativity in some of these April Fool's jokes (especially Blizzard's and the Cataclysm ones were well-done) but many of them get very old, very fast. Again though, it's due to the expectancy level, everyone EXPECTS to be fooled and pranked on April Fool's day and only the truly naive think otherwise.
My advice? Next year confuse the absolute hell out of everyone by either not having an April Fool's joke at all or by postponing it for X amount of days and having it on a random date. Remember those "pranks" where people say "APRIL FOOLS" in the middle of July, September - or whatever date past/before April 1st - after pranking someone? They work cause you didn't expect them, not because it's ironic [that it isn't actually April].
Also note the day may be called April Fools day, but the holiday is called April Fools. April is at least 30 days long, GIVE EVERYONE HELL!
dawnseven Apr 2nd 2010 10:45AM
I had some good laughs yesterday, and some heavy groans too. It was fun, but I'm also glad its over. I'm getting too old for so much chaos I guess. lol I might have to just skip it next year and pick the good stuff out of the recaps the next day.
Kylenne Apr 2nd 2010 12:12PM
Amen to that. Normally I'm all for good fun but I hate that the internet essentially becomes unusable for an entire day. 90% of the "jokes" are stupid and unfunny anyway.
At this point the only way to shock someone on April Fool's is to do something SERIOUS. Valve actually went this route once a while back, and announced some serious news that turned out to be true.
Though I did get a kick out of Bioware's special DLC for Dragon Age, which was gag gifts for your party members, some of which make them hate you instead of raiding affection. The Alistair doll for Morrigan about made me die. (And considering one of the potential endings, it's kind of a Funny Aneurysm Moment.) XD
amazon Apr 2nd 2010 9:10AM
You missed http://www.wowwiki.com/ which had all of its images turned upside down
Katalliaan Apr 2nd 2010 10:27AM
Oh good.. I was afraid my computer was going nuts. Nice to know that wasn't the case.
Hollow Leviathan Apr 2nd 2010 4:08PM
Some of the best April Fools are the small subtle ones, that make you wonder, is it April Fools? Or just me?
Docp Apr 2nd 2010 9:13AM
I love April Fool's Day. The rest of the year pranks are usually only done by university students with the main aim being ridicule, but on April Fool's day everyone takes a go and so you see some really clever, funny and interesting pranks or just general comedy. I think the fact that people know it's April fools day just encourages people to be more inventive (or drop the idea of pranking and just go for comedy, which is fine to).
For those who hate it I just say that you have the other 364 days of the year, you're not taking the 1 day we have.
miscus Apr 2nd 2010 9:15AM
battle.net matchmaking service, was the best one in a long while
Avan Apr 2nd 2010 2:18PM
I found it to be the best joke yesterday. Everything else just sucked, abysmally. It was like the internet said, "screw it," and just put up lame jokes with no effort for the sake of wasting no effort on lame jokes on a stupid day.
Aaron Apr 2nd 2010 9:17AM
TACOhead was absolutely brilliant. So was EVERYTHING they did to the armory.