April Fools!

[chuckstudios]

It was a little over the top to be believable.

Maybe would have got a 13 year old kid.
Only if you take it as just what you saw on the outside (the banner and such), the reason it was believable was because of things I will speak off underneath the quote below...

QUOTE(danielgardino @ Apr 1 2008, 08:39 PM) I must confess that I´ve never seen so much dedication and work to try to make us fall for this nasty April Fools joke. Advertising Banners, CNET Taskbar, even shutting down the site for a few hours just to pretend the servers are moving to CNET... that´s pretty orchestrated joke.

Oh, and the "new" moderators... Adam, Pete, Ryan, Ian and Liam... that´s very funny. Very nice people.

There was much more to it than that. We had fake topics appear and disappear, we leaked faked rumors for a month, etc etc. We had most people believing it was true before the actual joke went into effect. The cherry on top was that we released it on March 31st (April 1st in Australia) to avoid the typical "It was launched on April fools day so it has to be a joke" skepticism.

However, admittedly, it probably wasn't as convincing if you hadn't been hearing all th rumors swirling, and seeing people's topics on it mysterious get closed/deleted. Or if you hadn't seen the fake staff arguments we put on in the IRC channel, or didn't know about the quittings.

That's what I get for leaving for leaving for a while... I miss out on the good stuff

 

[DespizingU]

Poor JPH. He really fell for it. He was actually pretty pissed about the sell out too.

That was a very obvious and lame April Fools(hope you guys try harder next year), but I think JPH deserves an apology. He was probably balled up in his corner in the fetal position crying about this.
poor guy.

 

[Ferrariman]

SHIT!!!


wait... w00t! No mother fucking asswiping censorship!

 

[xcalibur]

[02:54] You know this was all Cnets fault.....it wouldnt have been as big f a deal if they didnt suck balls....
[02:54] you have a point
[02:54] for once
[02:54] moots said something good
[02:54] lmao

also

QUOTE[02:54] Actually.
[02:55] Originally we were going to go with Nintendo, which would have been completely fake.
[02:55] yeah
[02:55] too bait

 

[pipesfranco]

thank you so much i thought the end was in sight

we love all you guys and the people who make it how it is...you bastards!

 

[Mehdi]

can we keep the gamespot skin as an option

?

 

[Heran Bago]

It's not an "april fools" if you make the joke before April. Then its just a prank.

It was a well done prank. 'A' for effort! I hope next year the staff can do a good april fools joke.

(e: there's still time to get one in this year!)


I hadn't fallen for it but it was fun watching the shit hit the fan.

 

[Ace Gunman]

It's not an "april fools" if you make the joke before April. Then its just a prank.

The joke was made in April.... in Australia.

 

[SavageWaffle]

Damn, i had nothing else to do. And the gray bar was annoying.

 

[Heran Bago]

It's not an "april fools" if you make the joke before April. Then its just a prank.

The joke was made in April.... in Australia.

It was posted Yesterday, 11:33 AM. Are you sure you aren't overestimating the time difference?
Even then, were the sever or poster shaunj66 in an april 1st time zone at the time?

 

[Bamboo]

thank you for fun!!!!!

 

[shineget]

i just logged in purely to see if it was a joke or not, thank god it was. To be honest, i did fall for it at first but assumed it was an april fools after reading some of the forum posts. but there was always a part of me that thought, maybe, just maybe.

 

[Ace Gunman]

It's not an "april fools" if you make the joke before April. Then its just a prank.

The joke was made in April.... in Australia.

It was posted Yesterday, 11:33 AM. Are you sure you aren't overestimating the time difference?
Even then, were the sever or poster shaunj66 in an april 1st time zone at the time?

If you're referring to the announcement topic, that was made in advance several hours before the actual prank.

 

[thegame07]

Well thanks jph for the pm

however I knew it was a april fools joke as soon as you told me lol! I thought you where in on it, Shame on you guys doing that to him! lol

 

[Gus122000]

Never thought it was true

 

[Brainy142]

KiVin got BEAT DOWN by the april fools joke

I figured It was fake after I went to the cnet site and didn't see your listiong and it was before april fools

 

[bobrules]

I WAS RIGHT. april fools made the entire forum into a testing area.

 

[Tanas]

This must have been the worse April fools of the lot... why would a law abiding site want to own a warez related site, and ruin their reputations.

 

[kmaster78]

That was a good joke! Because poop would definitly hit the fan if it were true!
There is a lot of april fools jokes going around the web. This one is the best!

 

[JPH]

This must have been the worse April fools of the lot... why would a law abiding site want to own a warez related site, and ruin their reputations.

The Staff can't have a little fun every once in a while?

Actually, I think it boosted the site's popularity - not decreased it!