The Bard And Other WoW Related April Fools Jokes
Every year we can always expect Blizzard to post an April Fools joke. The year before TBC came out, I remember the announcement of the “wisp” as the new Alliance race for TBC before they eventually announced the Draenei. The wisp was a funny idea because it was supposed to be like hardcore mode wherein if you died, that’s the end forever! Lsst year was the announcement of the schematic for the tinfoil hat and the complicated and unreasonable attunement process for the Black Temple. This year, it’s the announcement of the new Hero Class: Bard.
I knew it was a joke right away because of the picture of the blood elf with an electric guitar on the announcements page. In light of the recent merger of Blizzard with Activision to form Activision Blizzard, the company had the right to parody the famous game Guitar Hero in light of World of Warcraft. This is obviously a guitar hero reference. Nevertheless, the joke was pretty funny. What makes this even funnier is that this new hero class uses a different resource system called “groove”, wherein the player needs to complete certain riffs to use his/her abilites and the riffs actually get more and more difficult as you progress. Click here to read more about this April Fools joke.
More April Fools activity has been seen in other WoW related sites. For example, the home page of your favorite WoW Head website looks like Thottbot. Also, WoWwiki and Guildwiki, the WoW and Guild Wars wikis respectively, have switched places. Also in the WoWwiki site there’s a news item that says “Farewell to Drsyc” who is one of the WoW Community Managers but when you click on the link, it leads you to a page announcing the departure of a Guild Wars CM.
April Fools is never a dull day especially for World of Warcraft since you know there will always be a funny joke!
update: I also noticed the players’ avatars at the official forums are all bears!
image taken from the World of Warcraft Community Site
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3 opinions for The Bard And Other WoW Related April Fools Jokes
Scott
Apr 1, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Possibly the best April fools joke ever is the Tauren Space marine.
http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/taurenmarine.xml
Angelo
Apr 2, 2008 at 7:36 am
yeah I checked that out and it’s really hilarious! There’s even mention of murlocs lol
Lia
Apr 2, 2008 at 8:34 am
I find the WoW for console even funnier haha!
http://worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/
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