That’s how you know you won April Fool’s Day: when people still remember it over two decades later. My favorite joke - and this is admittedly a cheat because it’s not strictly gaming related - is when the official Star Wars site turned itself into a greenscreen monitor page from 1979, complete with a poll on whether Leia should end up with Han or Luke. Or how Overwatch put googly-eyes on all the characters - including Hanzo’s Dragon and the payload itself - every year. Two years ago Guild Wars 2 populated the world with absolutely gigantic cats they didn’t get in the way of gameplay but made you smile whenever you saw one. I also enjoy it when a game does something so out of left field you can’t help but laugh. I wouldn’t expect them to add something like it to the game year-round (the LFG dropout rate would exceed Oculus), but if they made something like it available for just one day, I definitely would’ve had a blast in there. But my favorite WoW April Fool’s Day joke was the Tomb of Immortal Darkness - not because it was uproariously funny, but because it looked like it would actually be fun. I fondly remember Crabby saying “looks like Hunter loot to me!” over every Agility staff and polearm I viewed in the Armory.
The annual World of Warcraft patch notes, for example, are usually pretty funny. That said, I do have to admit that occasionally I find the jokes on April 1st to be amusing, presuming they’re clearly jokes and not designed to hurt anyone. The Blizzard that gave us Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 is dead.I’m really not a fan of April Fool’s Day, or frankly pranks of any sort - all too often it’s at someone’s expense, or to make people feel gullible, or sometimes to actually hurt someone. As a surprise to absolutely no one, Diablo Immortal represents everything that is wrong with Mobile Garbage! I was proud of myself before for deleting my Blizzard account (and chronicling it on my Youtube channel) in protest back when ActivisionBlizzard took the "No freedom for Hong Kong!" stance back in 2014, and before that I hadn't bought anything from them since I cancelled my World of Warcraft account back in February of 2011, and I got rid of my phone early this year, and I am now even happier and more proud of myself!
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