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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:22PM (Unverified) said

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Luna Online introduced a new playable race too

Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:26PM DarthCheese said

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City of Sidekicks was actually pretty funny! :D

Posted: Apr 3rd 2010 12:32PM mattwo said

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They really didn't try hard enough on the details though...
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:32PM (Unverified) said

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you didn't put Diablo 3's 5th revealed class....

Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:32PM RogueJedi86 said

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Diablo 3's not an MMORPG, that's why.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:33PM (Unverified) said

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it's still a great april fool's joke
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:31PM Crode said

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EVE Online: Eve University is now Accepting Mercenary Contracts:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1294420

Posted: Apr 1st 2010 8:37PM Its Utakata stupid said

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This is the best, IMHO:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/equipmentpotency.xml

...for those who don't play WoW, this reference is a perfect spearing of an obnoxious overly used and abused 3rd party add-on called GearScore that rate players gear on the spot. Even the dev's openly detest it.

Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 10:32AM (Unverified) said

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Sorry, lead a raid of 25 people and tell me GS isn't important. Specifically, PUG a majority of the raid and don't use GS.

It takes a long enough time to get 25 people together, let alone making sure they are geared enough to do the content. In the later raids, you NEED to putting out certain DPS numbers or bosses don't die, you have to have some filter in place to weed out people that WONT be able to meet those numbers.

I don't have time to inspect every single member that I PUG, look at all his gear, make sure it's appropriate, then give him the go ahead.

You essentially have 4 types of people. Under-geared and incompetent, under-geared and competent, geared and incompetent, and geared and competent. Why not use a mod to weed out 50% of the people that shouldn't be there to begin with?

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Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 2:07PM Its Utakata stupid said

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With the risk of getting way off-topic...

...if you lead a group of consistent regular players with people you know...that work on referal, you can eliminate 75% of players who shouldn't be there. Granted this may take a bit more time, but the long term benefits of having a reasonably competent group that you can regulary run goes without saying. You don't need GS to help you get that.

And in before you cry Weeklies or VoA...most of those can be completed without heavy gear requirements or high competence. And due to the current loot badge system the likeliness of getting a group who are over qualified gear wise for that instance is quite high anyhow. Again you really don't need GS to help you with that.

...in the meantime, enjoy April Fools shenanigans.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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The E-PEEN from Blizzard made my day.

The combat videos of the Sarlacc Enforcer from SWTOR were pretty good too.

Posted: Apr 1st 2010 9:17PM Espilae said

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Good, you didn't feature the EVE one. EVE gets way too much coverage on this site as is.

Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 5:50AM SgtBaker said

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It's because EVE is not as lame as rest of these carebear MMO's ;-)
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Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 7:46AM Graill440 said

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@sgtBaker,

Hmmm, you one of those new generation "Pro" gamers every talks about? You know whats lame and whats not for everyone? Keep us updated, your comment on EVE was life changing.
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Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 9:49AM SgtBaker said

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No, I'm just here to troll idiots
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 9:20PM Sorithal said

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Rofl at the Sarlacc Death Star beam video clip bioware made on that page xD

Posted: Apr 1st 2010 11:57PM (Unverified) said

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I thought WoW's two-headed ogre (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/two-headed-ogre.shtml) was pretty good. I knew it was an April Fool's joke, but my boss and I both secretly longed for the ability to run around like this for just a day... alas, it was all a lie. Like the cake.

Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 4:05AM Temko said

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darkfall released a patch... (no joke)

downtime was 4 hours.... (servers came up 18 hours later )

now there is a joke :!

Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 7:41AM Graill440 said

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One thing i swore i would never do is pay attention (on purpose anyway) to anything WOW related. I saw the link and clicked it, it was amusing i will give it that.

Had my brother explain "gearscore", sounds like a bunch of BS, halfway through i told him forget the explanation, it wasnt worth it.

Posted: Apr 2nd 2010 1:23PM (Unverified) said

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What about the GW2 beta keys in GW?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Beta_key_hunt

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