April Fools!

[Maikel Steneker]

This was really an awesome joke

I didn't believe it for a second though

But I had a good laugh.

Actually, I'd believe if you'd sold GBAtemp to any other company. But Cnet? Never

Everyone here complains about how bad GameFAQs is!

 

[grubbymitts]

Apart from it being obvious, the biggest clue was in the first letters of the names of the new mods spelling out APRIL , although you did well hiding it by having CNET_Peter as the first to post.

Hope stealing their logos for the day doesn't backfire, dudes!

Well done. I liked this one much more than Google's lame effort.

 

[Anorhc]

Now I will laugh at those who said: "That's it. Goodbye forever." and "This is the worst news ever."

Seriously. People who are over-dramatic are hilarious.

 

[JPH]

Now I will laugh at those who said: "That's it. Goodbye forever." and "This is the worst news ever."

Seriously. People who are over-dramatic are hilarious.

People who care about the online community, NDS and Wii Release Information and the website in general...

And for those that have been here for over a year or so.

 

[VVoltz]

Now I will laugh at those who said: "That's it. Goodbye forever." and "This is the worst news ever."

Seriously. People who are over-dramatic are hilarious.

People who care about the online community, NDS and Wii Release Information and the website in general...

And for those that have been here for over a year or so.

Amen, I was really really sad, not because of the change but because of people leaving, I am very serious when I say I care for a bunch of good people here.

 

[imtony]

I read it during school and it got me really bad. I was like WTF ? ARE YOU SERIOUS ? It had me going on til a couple of periods later, someone april fooled me and I realized this is probably just a April's fool joke too. But oh so convincing. =(

 

[GH0ST]

Amen, I was really really sad, not because of the change but because of people leaving, I am very serious when I say I care for a bunch of good people here.

I understand i was sad also because some people were not only fooled but nervous. Let's find something no so big but more funny next time ... so we can really enjoy it all together.

Somehow it is a good lesson ... about friendship and GBAtemp dependencies

 

[Doggy124]

R4 1.18...
CNET....

Next year I will leave the forum until 7th April.

 

[Hadrian]

I bet you bumbags who PM'd me saying I was a sellout feel real dumb now.

 

[superrob]

Well you got me for the first 30 minnuts but after that i really began to hate the joke.

 

[Master Mo]

Man, I`m just really happy, that this big Advertisement bar is gone. That thing drove me crazy I tell you *haha*

Great Aprils Fools joke. I respect everyone who was involved in this complot for that. And I think the message you wanted to deliver with this joke is really good and hopefully everyone, including myself, in here at gbatemp will now appreciate the staff and what you guy are doing here a bit more.

R.I.P ClNet... or maybe not in peace

 

[.TakaM]

oh wow, people actually fell for it?


don't mean to demean the prank, it was perfectly executed.
But Cnet buying a community of pirates? didn't believe it for a second

I thought members were playing along lol, I didn't think anyone was actually fooled




and yes, thanks for always maintaining integrity GBAtemp, I love you guys

 

[Bruinbaard]

Good joke and a very well set-up.
But it was quite obvious since everyone knows every gbatemper hates gamespot and exactly that logo you put in the gamespot logo

. If you would have done it another time of the year I think gbatemp would've lost like half of its popuation

 

[Bob Evil]

The main problem with April Fools Day ...


... is the fact that every day is April Fools Day on the internet.

 

[Szyslak]

*yawns
*stretches

So anything good happen yesterday?

j/k guys. It was a nice prank. Well executed.

I knew something was afoot as soon as Ace Gunman resigned. There's no way that power-mad mother****** ***** **** *** *** ******* **** * ********* ****.

*Filtered by Ace Gunman

[EDIT] See?

 

[Upperleft]

I fell for it like the others xDD
you got us good
but it wasn't funny rly

 

[Prime]

That April Fools was lame.

Failed

 

[cutterjohn]

Did we get you? Yeah we did! NEITHER CNET NETWORKS NOR GAMESPOT HAVE BOUGHT OUT GBAtemp. It was an April Fools joke... Now take a deep breath and relax! No, not even close. OMG! Ponies! FTW!

No staff have quit - it was all part of the prank! We started spreading the rumour about a possible sell out a few weeks to help make things a little more believable.Who'd've guessed?

Immunity will be given to those that went a bit overboard and started saying nasty things, so don't fret!

i.e. gullible idiots

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PPS. KiVan fell for it. We freakin' April Fool'd him!

WTF is kivan?

[EDIT]
You should've found someone at gamespot or CNET to post a fake corp. press release. It would've been MUCH better with that, still without even verifying it, I picked it out as a semi-early(to me) April Fools Day joke attempt. Dunno why people fell for it though, the "new mods" whose initials spelt APRIL, lack of press release at CNET, lack of copyrights, change of DNS records, metatags, etc. just proved it a lame joke.

Nice try though, but you guys will never beat OMG! Ponies!
[/EDIT]

 

[Electric_Wizard]

I thought it was a pretty good gag, don't know why people are so upset.

Seemed plausible enough until someone reminded me of the date!

 

[Twiffles]

WTF is kivan?

You come to temp and you don't know who KiVan is? Shame shame.

He's the guy that founded the website. The mythical member #1.