April Fools Of Years Past
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pixiestixy on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 26 Comments Tags: april fools, april fools' day, bard, battlegrounds, burgercraft, gilgamesh, joke, pandaren, prank, the molten core, tinfoil hat, troll tears, two-headed orc, warcraft, wisps
pixiestixy on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 26 Comments Tags: april fools, april fools' day, bard, battlegrounds, burgercraft, gilgamesh, joke, pandaren, prank, the molten core, tinfoil hat, troll tears, two-headed orc, warcraft, wisps 
It's almost here. The day where all hell breaks loose on the Internet and two-headed orcs attempt to make a mockery of the great Horde faction. So, in celebration of the hilarity that Blizzard will undoubtedly unleash starting midnight tonight, we at Project Lore wanted to take a look back at some of Blizzard's best attempts to make a fool of us all.Shortly after my first venture into WoW in early 2006, Blizzard revealed its best venture EVER! BurgerCraft.
IRVINE, Calif. -- April 1, 2006 -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today unveiled BurgerCraft™, introducing the company’s latest business venture and revealing many details about the plans for its company-owned restaurant chain. The grand opening of the first BurgerCraft restaurant is set to take place on June 1, 2006 in downtown Los Angeles, California.
EPIC! Now it seems that the original WoW forum posts from 2005 that inspired this glorious idea have since been removed. But thankfully, WoWwiki and its infinite wiki wisdom have kept records of what started as a meme from poster Gilgamesh from Alleria. How many of you remember this?
WoB: Welcome to World of Burgercraft. Would you like a PVE value meal, a PVP value meal, or an RP value meal?
Car 1: What is the difference between the PVE and PVP meals?
WoB: The PVP burger has onions. The PVE burger does not. Except sometimes. You can add onions if you want. And we sneak some onions in toward the end of the PVE burger but you don't have to eat them. You can skip that part of the burger.
Car 1: What about the RP burger?
WoB: Vegetarian.
I appreciate that this joke stemmed from the players themselves. Blizzard knows how to appease its fan base! The previous year, Blizzard made a crack on its own battlegrounds system, which was then in development, by announcing that the battlegrounds would be pulled straight from Warcraft III, which Blizzard said would "allow us to better focus our efforts on creating game features that players really want, such as ordering various types of food in-game!"Apparently, food is a driving force for all WoW players. But Blizzard also is well aware of the fact that we are constantly scrounging for details on what's yet-to-come in game. They've taunted us with a great many new playable races - the mighty Pandaren, the air-headed Wisps and two-headed Ogres; items - the infamous tinfoil hat and related Troll Tears; a hero class - the Guitar Hero-styled Bard; and even a new console game - my personal favorite, World of Warcraft: The Molten Core.
Each year, Blizzard seems to come up with a more elaborate prank involving fake screenshots, back stories and even bogus commercials. I would question whether it was all worth it except for one thing: it really energizes the fan community and gets us all talking. So, while I cringe at the thought of being duped into another April Fools' joke, I'm also really looking forward to seeing what Blizzard throws at us this year.
Personally, I'm all for them shouting out to the fans once again and recruiting a certain legendary team to rule over Azeroth with an iron fist for the day. Your new overlords: Bowbins, Lylelovett, Winterstrike, Dorkins and Juggynaut. Perhaps you've heard of them?
So, what are all your predictions for the coming mayhem? Are you looking forward to the madness, or do you plan to lie low until it's all over?
Reader Comments (26)
I think Blizzard would announce that Arthas and his Scourge armies will destroy the Azeroth, and we will see armies in game and everything what breeths or not will be destriyed!! Than bosses from all the dungeons and raids will kill Arthas and his army, players will be ressurected and a HUGE dance part with flying Tauren, drunk Padaren and dead Gnomes will start!! Untill the Ragnaros', Yogg-Saron's and K'Thune's self-destruct and transforming azeroth in a new Outland with big red sing "Happy April's fool's day, we(GMs and other stuff) are out of here, thank you for fish".
P.S. Happy April Fool's day and sorry my bad grammar.
crazy imagination there Ivan hahaha
TY, I'm Russian, it explains everything =)) I think
...aah, yes...the day of the year where people become really stupid and forget that they can't believe everything they read on the Internet.
I still remember that April Fool's Day when Google released Gmail. One of these days they'll make all the accounts readable to the public and tell the world, "FOOLED YOU!"
Or maybe Blizz would announce Artifact items like "Juggy's Lucky pants", "Fake Bowbins' ears", "Dorkins' chest of unleashed power of Achievementology" and the most powerful item "Tabard of Project Lore" (Use: Summons two hundred copies of Project Lore dudes to LAG your opponents till DEATH (and after disconect kill it with a single BLOW))
I meant kill HIM/HER with a single BLOW
They should make gnomes their own faction for a day, letting them take back Gnomer...then take it away the following day *devil smile*
Aprils fools day prank:
All your characters become level 1 for 24 hours.
xD
@ Jordan
But Im going to Naxx tommorrow!!!
How about making all characters AND all mobs level 1 for 24 hours? Level 1 elite bosses FTW :)
hahahahaha
i remember when they introduced "the bard" lol
i was SO freaked out, but the next day my buddy told me it was april fools.
He said, Haha n00b
the realse date of starcraft 2
I think the best april fools joke is that every character pet npc ect. is turned into the same monotonous looking zombie. Try raiding without know who is tank.
That would be amazing. The health should scale down too. =)
I think Blizz should go 1 step further. On April 1st, they will announce that they have gone bankrupt; WoW is over. Of course, being April 1'st, no one will believe it. So, what do they do? They turn off the servers for a day or two, and watch all hell break loose. The Forums would still be open with threads explaining the situation, and then, some time later: *Poof*, everything is happy again^^
@Matt that would just be MEAN! (i like it)
>=D
I think that Blizzard should turn off all the servers that way people would have to do some thing else for a day. Although that would suck considerably considering that I was going to bust my butt to get to 80 that day. =)
P1MP MY MOUNT! =P
has anyone seen anything in game or on there website? I haven't noticed anything yet.
My favorite was definitely the Molten Core for console, I laughed so hard at the trailer. ...Has Sound!
/agree with matt lol
I for one welcome our new PL masters with open arms and hope they do not pwn me with their skills of invincibility, control of many alts, mastery of all things achievement, l33t healing (wait is that a way to pwn someone?), face smashing power, and of course epic randomness!
XD
For those of you jonesing for a taste of the guys from PL, check out Alex in this video with Liam Lynch!!!
SO GREAT!! ALEX, this should be everywhere!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ICiYZ-7Pm0
P1mp My Mount! http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/mount-p1mpage.html
Dance Battle System http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/dance/index.xml
So far, the only thing I've seen Blizzard release is a Voltron type unit for SC2:
http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/terratron.xml
I have yet to see anything WoW related
And as soon as I post, Blizz makes up something for WoW
"Dance Battle System"
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/dance/index.xml