Blizz April Fool's (Spoilers)

Unread post by **Acherontia** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:27 am

Laughing hard right now. See, the Blizz April Fool's today is a silly joke about a little blue crab that will appear on your screen in dungeons (think Microsoft Word Paperclip) and offer "helpful suggestions" about boss tactics. Basically a joke on how everything's being dumbed down.

HOWEVER, when you visit the WoW forums, the crab is there on every page commenting on what you're reading. He even links to the meme-song Friday

Oh, and when I popped over to check if there'd been any replies on one of my posts, he asked if I would like him to summarize the thread. I clicked yes.

Jerk. >.>

My Pets · Unread post by **Tyuriwen** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:38 am

Aw, two buts are better than one! (I hope I'm not the only one that realised the typo).

Didn't know it did it on the forums too! Would be a cute little thing to enable/disable in the Interface menu, I love my Microsoft Paperclip. xD

Unread post by **Acherontia** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:40 am

Yah I noticed it lol.

If you check the comments on the Friday youtube vid, btw, it's currently just hundreds of WoW players bitching that they got tricked into visiting the page

Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:17 am

This is way too funny. I have to say I'm becoming attached to the little guy.

YouTube Edition · Unread post by **Kalliope** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:49 pm

He's adorable! I want to keep him!!!!

<33333

Actually, upon reading his description, I *really* think there's a certain amount of the population who would actually run with him if he were staying. "Crabby can do a quick audit of your gear and tell you where and how you can improve your equipment."

magistream · Unread post by **Nubhorns** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:57 pm

I think both of the April Fools ideas would be pretty fantastic if they were implemented. I'd imagine a lot of PuGs would drop on Tomb of Immortal Darkness...but not if Crabby was there to help!

I know what I'm naming Caboodle's Ghostcrawler when she gets to that point now. :B

YouTube Edition · Unread post by **Kalliope** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:01 pm

Also, be sure to click through the screenshots on his page - the eyebrows on the AH one! *dies of giggles*

Unread post by **Miraga** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:28 pm

I would have bought these. >___>

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/223 ... zard-Store

Unread post by **Acherontia** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:47 pm

I think a lot of people would, lol. Most of the comments are "WHY IS THIS NOT REAL."

Wings of Chaos <3

(Also, a lot of the people don't seem to realize it's an MMO-Champ joke rather than a Blizz one, and are raving angrily about how Blizzard's fake ideas are better than their real ones

)

Unread post by **Araela** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:32 pm

Is anyone else wishing he was tameable? That's the first thing I (semi-jokingly) asked my husband this morning when he showed me. Hahaha!

magistream · Unread post by **Nubhorns** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:27 pm

Araela wrote:Is anyone else wishing he was tameable? That's the first thing I (semi-jokingly) asked my husband this morning when he showed me. Hahaha!

Step 1: Tame Ghostcrawler.
Step 2: Name 'Crabby'.
Step 3: Make a macro in which Crabby says helpful things.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit!

Unread post by **Royi** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:35 pm

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/

Theres a lot more new ones out there. Some of my favorites:

•To ensure Orgrimmar and Stormwind are the premiere cities for Cataclysm, NPC’s have been removed from all other cities.

•Female worgen have been cured of their curse and now have only a human form.

•Ever a player favorite, the level-80 10- and 25-player raid of Icecrown Citadel is being reintroduced as a level-85 Heroic 5-player dungeon.
•Ever a player favorite, the level-85 10- and 25-player raid of The Bastion of Twilight is being reintroduced as a level-85 Heroic 5-player dungeon.
•Ever a player favorite, the level-85 10- and 25-player raid of Firelands is being reintroduced as a level-85 Heroic 5-player dungeon.
•Ever a player favorite, the level-85 Heroic 5-player dungeon of Deadmines is being reintroduced as a level-85 Heroic 5-player dungeon.

•In order to make the Cataclysm expansion appeal to all players’ sense of nostalgia, shaman, druids and paladins may now only queue as healers when using the Dungeon Finder.
((I actually remember my raid leader refusing to give a dps cloak to a paladin in ZG because "paladins only should heal"))

•Female warlocks are now correctly called witches.

•Rouges equipping helms that resemble eye patches now suffer a 2% hit penalty from lack of depth perception.

•Some paladin abilities did not contain the words Sanctity, Divine, or Justice. This has been corrected.

•Hunters now earn Valor Points when they are effectively Vote Kicked from a Dungeon Finder group.

•Druid forms are now considered vehicles, allowing one player to ride on the druid’s back while in any form, even their humanoid form.

•Due to player feedback regarding night elf, blood elf, and worgen “flippy” jumps, player characters can no longer jump.

And finally my favorite:

•The mouse can now no longer be used to turn player characters. In many cases, this gave certain players a slight advantage over those that used their keys to turn.

Unread post by **Rower** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:00 pm

He's so cute! I tamed this pet http://www.wow-petopia.com/look/deepseacrabblue.html and named him Crabby

Unread post by **Bodhran** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:21 pm

This is screaming out to be made into a addon like they did with the EPEEN meeter lol.

Also anyone want the wings that MMO joked about? /drools

Unread post by **Moonlost** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:40 pm

I love crabby, it makes me sad that he's only visiting for the day. :<
If someone manages to make an animated gif of this guy, I would use him for my signature so fast. XD

Unread post by **Bodhran** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:31 am

Moonlost wrote:I love crabby, it makes me sad that he's only visiting for the day. :<
If someone manages to make an animated gif of this guy, I would use him for my signature so fast. XD

^ THIS or a Icon/ava that can be used other places as well!

Unread post by **Raederle** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:21 am

Araela wrote:Is anyone else wishing he was tameable? That's the first thing I (semi-jokingly) asked my husband this morning when he showed me. Hahaha!

Absolutely yes! I said the same thing when I saw him. He's very cute & I love crabs as pets.

Unread post by **Miyon** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:27 pm

Gief wings o.O

Unread post by **Miraga** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:37 pm

I MADE CRABBY ANGRY! D:

Unread post by **Araela** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:01 am

Nubhorns wrote:
Araela wrote:Is anyone else wishing he was tameable? That's the first thing I (semi-jokingly) asked my husband this morning when he showed me. Hahaha!
Step 1: Tame Ghostcrawler.
Step 2: Name 'Crabby'.
Step 3: Make a macro in which Crabby says helpful things.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit!

I have GC - but renaming him Crabby would go against my pet theme, so I won't do that.

Regardless, he's pretty cute!

Raederle wrote:
Araela wrote:Is anyone else wishing he was tameable? That's the first thing I (semi-jokingly) asked my husband this morning when he showed me. Hahaha!
Absolutely yes! I said the same thing when I saw him. He's very cute & I love crabs as pets.

Glad I'm not the only one!

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