battle.net april 1 jokes

[Father Beast]

being as it's that time again, I looked and discovered these two items

1. two headed ogre a playable race in world of warcraft. another player controls the other head.

2. Goblin Tinker is new hero type in upcoming Frozen Throne patch.

[duke o' york]

The first one's all right, but I don't get the second at all.

[Verto]

1.) Hilarious.
2.) ?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by duke o' york
The first one's all right, but I don't get the second at all.

I guess heores are supposed to be badass, not utter weaklings like goblin tinkers.

[DrSpike]

http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/goblintinker.shtml

The goblin tinker is not funny by itself; you have to know WC3 and read the page I link to. Trust me it's far more hilarious than that ogre thing.

[Buck Birdseed]

What about this one?

http://www.blizzard.com/press/040401.shtml

[DrSpike]

Also not bad.

[Spiffor]

The golbin tinker is a good idea actually. Since they have done the graphics, I hope they'll implement it in a patch or so

[DrSpike]

Balance first, silly heroes can be played in custom games.

[Sava]

warcraft 3 SUX!

[Nylan-Nolan]

Originally posted by Doc

http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/goblintinker.shtml

The goblin tinker is not funny by itself; you have to know WC3 and read the page I link to. Trust me it's far more hilarious than that ogre thing.

I get it!

Run humans! Run for your lives!

[DrSpike]

omfg ph34r the mechanicals lol so overpowered nerf plz kthxbai!!!!

[DrSpike]

Hehe, an update:

1.15 patch is upcoming, and Blizzard are still insisting this goblin hero will be added. There is a precedent since a previous April fool's joke was (some time later, admittedly) added as a neutral hero in TFT. They have also fleshed out the characters stats and hero abilities.

http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/goblintinker.shtml

People are posting skill allocations for each level already. Perhaps Blizzard went for the delayed fool, expecting people to call it a joke just for it to actually be included despite the fact it sounds like a joke.

Equally possible is that it's a double-barrelled fool with the second barrel relying on the fact that a previous hero was added after an April fool's joke.

Either way it's pretty funny.

[FrustratedPoet]

The Secret Cow Level in Diablo 2 is another example of an April Fool's Joke that actually did make it into the game.

[DrSpike]

Hehe this is the final(ish) patch though, and adding a new hero at a strange idea because of balance. I'm hoping it's all one big fool, because that would be quite funny. People are making GT strats already.