April Fools: Aquariums! - on El's Extreme Anglin'

[Mania]

We're finally getting some real news about the Cataclysm expansion! Although I admit I didn't expect to hear about something like fishing first, but still ... very exciting! Especially for pet-crazy hunters.

El of El's Extreme Anglin' has all the details, so head over there and take a gander: http://www.elsanglin.com/aquarium.html

A teaser:

Storing dead fish in bags or bank vaults is smelly. And nobody can see your rarest catches. Fish tanks allow anglers to keep their rarest catches alive - and gain rewards from doing so. They also let other people see precisely what rare fish you have caught!

The aquarium finally brings the best of "social fish-gaming" to Azeroth.

Edit: I forgot the 'Extreme'.

[Vephriel]

*coughs* April fools tomorrrow? xD

[Aleu]

I have my doubts. >:|

...But it would be cool!

[Kastarakovski]

Likely an April Fool's joke. But a creative idea nonetheless.
Almost had me going at the Sea Turtle becomes 310% speed underwater part XD

[Bulletdance]

Ah sweet sweet lies. It'd be awesome,but I have a feeling we'll be getting these when we can roll murlocs and wisps. (a previous April fools prank by blizz)

[Ryai]

Yeah most likely a joke. Sigh hate this time of year.

But, this does remind me of what Blizz was originally kicking about. Making fishing a bit more like erf, Animal Crossing or whatever? Was a while back but. Mayhaps they are changing it but well obviously most likely not this.

[Teigan]

Seems like a bizarre, ungainly Facebook type game. Which I hate and my farm or whatever always dies. It has to be a joke. I hope.

[Ryai]

Seems like a bizarre, ungainly Facebook type game. Which I hate and my farm or whatever always dies. It has to be a joke. I hope.

If you mean The Sea Turtle will also grow, gradually improving the Turtle's swim speed - eventually reaching 310% swim speed. The Sunken City of Vashj'ir is entirely underwater, so an "ultra-fast" turtle could be very useful. And will only take half a year of flawless fish-feeding to gain... Specfically then no, no it really wouldn't be to far fetched. Why?

the Violet Proto Achievements :DDDD

the pvp ones are always the killer, flub it up and well ooopsie have to try again next year!

[cowmuflage]

that does sound cool as im a fish keeper in reallife but its proberly a april fools joke. today it april the 1st where i am.

[Azzrazzah]

Christ, I hope it's a joke... Do we realy need something like this in the game.. Isn't dalaran abit crowded as it is, if everyone is dragging an aquarium around with them.. Just alittle too much!!!

[Saturo]

This sounds like El is just having fun making things up. Great april fools joke, tough.

[Teigan]

OK, I can see the merit of "growing" the turtle...but daily feeding....that would end in tears for me. I can't even keep Farmville alive!

[Arwyn]

It may be an April's Joke but for a brief instance I imagined having more space in my bank thanks to this bit of trickery.

[Saturo]

Well, it's pretty much definately a joke. Noone else has mentioned it, and besides, El always runs a little April Fools joke... Example being the Gnobbles last year.

[Artume]

Careful as you go, guys. I've been to El's twice in the last week and my virus software snagged a nasty both times.

Sadly, this isn't an April's Fool joke.

[Saturo]

That's odd... I've never had any problem on El's, and I've pretty much frequented the site since it's inception. Ah well, that's Linux for ye'...

[Mania]

Yes, this is an April Fools' joke. I've changed the thread title to avoid future confusion.

El's Extreme Anglin' and Warcraft Pets are Petopia's official sister fishing and minipet sites (respectively), so I wanted to highlight what they did for the holiday -- especially since I almost never bother with anything myself.

[Artume]

That's odd... I've never had any problem on El's, and I've pretty much frequented the site since it's inception. Ah well, that's Linux for ye'...

Wish I could handle Linux, but I'm fairly computer-impaired. I view my move to Firefox as progressive

Anyhoo, I looked at my Avast file and the virus seems to stem from a banner ad with a UK centre of origin, so I'm not sure how that works in terms of region. Do peeps in America and Europe see different ads?

I was amazed to get dinged twice, as I thought El must know about it by now, but evidently she doesn't. I've been a member on El's forum since ye olde days as well, so I'll have a sort through my e-mail and see if I have an address I can alert her on.

[Vephriel]

Ah, I always have all ads disabled, so perhaps that's why nothing suspicious ever popped up from El's for me.