It's April Fool's day, and that means there's all manner of craziness going on across the MMO landscape. From bogus upcoming features and races being touted, to crazy in-game shenanigans, our team is out hunting it all down to document for posterity in an upcoming April Fool's Day roundup posting. That said, today Alex was early on the ball this morning and sent us a screenshot of the craziness going on in Guild Wars. Not a regular Guild Wars player who can spot just what's wrong with this picture? Have no fear -- Alex also sent in a note to explain!
"This is my character Necromas Darklight having a little fun with the April Fool's event. They made it so that when in towns and outposts, all the player models were scaled down to minipet sizes and all the minipet models were scaled up to regular sizes. I know it doesn't sound like much but it's gotten everyone running around and meeting up for little parades and celebrations and even thrown the minipet trading market into a frenzy. For this shot I just decided to keep it simple and show off my 'miniature' lich. Sometimes it's just little things like this that go a long way to keeping me interested in the game and having fun."
If you notice something odd in your favorite MMO today, feel free to send in a screenshot to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com too. If we get enough, we might run them in a special April Fool's gallery showing off all the different things that went on today! If not -- we'll probably just show them off over the next few days for those who missed out on the events. Be sure to add in your name, the name of the game, and a description of the shenanigans too. Either way, we'd love to have your tales of tomfoolery!
Reader Comments (8)
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 2:19PM Greeen said
Haha, good one!
"I shall call him Mini-Me!"
"I shall call him Mini-Me!"
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 2:19PM Arkanaloth said
MUCH better still than mine.. I could never catch the right moment!
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 2:46PM (Unverified) said
Great idea!
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 3:01PM alucard3000 said
dont know where to post this but CoH has one
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/paragon_studios_announces_city.html
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/paragon_studios_announces_city.html
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 3:40PM Joshua Przygocki said
I remember the stick man April fools prank from a while back... everyone hated it lol.
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 5:04PM (Unverified) said
I remember it too and 1 year before that they had changed the toons' gender, i was so worried i lost my beautiful female dervish until i realized it was an april fool hehe.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2010 3:57PM (Unverified) said
The only problem this brings up is the limited number of minipets that may walk around in a town or outpost. Every place I visit has hit the limit, meaning I didn't get to take a look at my supersized minipets yet...
Posted: Apr 1st 2010 4:45PM (Unverified) said
Go to pretty much any outpost that isn't one of the major hub cities. Most are nearly empty. Or your guild hall if you have one.
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