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Gamespot Previews World of Starcraft
ScaryFroMan writes "Gamespot has a preview up of Blizzard's new MMO, World of Starcraft. From the article: "To put it mildly, the human brain cannot possibly fathom and the English language cannot possibly express how amazingly incredible the next massively multiplayer game from Blizzard is going to be. First screens and details!""
AWESOME! This is obviously soooo true judging from all the other news here today.
OMG. Ponies!!!!
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.
massive group sex!
"It's time to drop out of school, quit your job, divorce your spouse, disown your children, cancel your gym membership, upgrade your PC, and clear out your schedule for World of Starcraft." Sounds about right to me. ;)
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...until I got to the part about it being a free download. Shyeah, right!
PONY RUSH ekekekekekekekekkekeke!
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
OMG are there going to be ponies in the game? I wanna take a zealot out for a ride on a pony. Maybe the terran will get unicorns as well.
We wanted World of PONEY God blizzard cant get anything right...
Sorry guys but quantity doesn't make quality. IMO this is probably the worst /. April 1 period we've had, anyone who disagrees probably had trouble reading the headlines.
I bet / hope Taco's wife thought this up and is now making as much fun of him as my gf is making fun of me.
Zerg are way cuter than all of the stuff in the poll.. Their slimy little faces, cute little fangs and claws, horrid bondage sex involving decapitation.. I CANT WAIT FOR THIS GAME!!! OMG 3
I wish, it would be really cool to see a Starcraft MMO. Now If-Only ghost would come out first.
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Am I the only one wishing this story were true?
the screenshots were convincing. The catch is that they mentioned BurgerCraft, which instantly gave it away.
Silence is golden... and duct tape is silver.
Get ready for Burgercraft! http://www.blizzard.com/press/060401.shtml
(And Ponies!)
....makes me realize that we will probably never see this as a MMO game. Can you imagine what a nightmare it would be to balance, while still keeping true to the "uniqueness" of the Starcraft races like the article tries to do?
The English language cannot possibly express how amazingly incredible the next massively multiplayer game from Blizzard is going to be.
:(
But unless the game has ponies, WITH glitter option, and WITH several special shades of pink also optional - then it simply won't be "amazingly incredible"...it will simply be "incredible."
The game will retain incredible status due to an innovative "Zerg mating game" - basically new Zerg characters can only be created when two Zergs engage in an amusing mating ceremony minigame, the Revolution version requires a "thrusting" motion using the cool new pad. Sadly PC gamers have to make do with simple button-combo pressing, a la Parappa the Rapper.
HOWEVER due to the conservative nature of Blizzard devs/GMs, mating is only possible when married, a long...long process requiring much commitment. AND while Zerg/Protoss nudity is commended, Terran nudity is discouraged - all we are treated to are a few "moaning noises" with the screen fading to black for 1-60 minutes depending on your "intercourse" skill.
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World of Starcraft would be about the only game that could challenge World of Warcraft in subscription numbers.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
I must credit them for their two fake screenshots.
Where's those 3D Starcraft characters from? Starcraft Ghost? That secret little Warcraft 3 map? Hmm...
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I came to Slashdot today by searching Google. Turns out this site has nothing to do with pink Ford Mustangs. OMG!
I dropped out of school, quit the job, divorced my spouse, disowned my children, upgraded my PC, and cleared out the schedules AND THE WHOLE THING WAS A &(*&(*% APRIL FOOL'S JOKE.
Good thing I didnt cancel my gym membership.
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This story is obviously true.. They waited till 12:01 AM on April 1 to post it.
I lost my karma, last april fools...
The absolute worst part of April 1st isn't the deluge of stupid "pranks" listed on sites like Slashdot, but rather the few gems of stories that you WISH were true and could/should be true, but aren't.
As a former but recovered WoW addict, I can say that you'd get my $60 and monthly dues again for at least another year and a half if you made this happen, Blizzard. I'd love to play a GOOD sci-fi MMORPG.
Rob Malda is not gay.
(April Fools)
the English language cannot possibly express how amazingly incredible the next massively multiplayer game from Blizzard is going to be
"WoS is t3h r0x0r" is English?
I especially liked how it would be out in Korea first.
Nice touch.
I am reminded why I hate each and every one of you.
- Eat it.
Yeah lets all hype Blizzard while overlooking their spyware
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004076.php
So i guess i should try and get my money back from that guy on ebay...
~Should i be worried when the real world starts lagging?
In reply to the guy earlier, yeah, I'd love it too. But at the same time, I know they'd screw it up so bad. So I'd rather have a Starcraft 2. Even Ghost would be nice. I mean come on! How many times are they going to postpone/ hold indefinately?
A someone else previously stated... omg ponies.
God i wish it werent april fools. I would love to play a good non-fantasy MMORPG. When the hell is tabula rasa coming out? Fucking ponies...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
This really could be cool if they decided to do it.
I think it'd work better as a MMFPS, though. Something like Planetside, but with the different races and then some factions within those races. Terrans fighting Terrans, Protoss teaming up with one Zerg hive to hold off another hive, etc. Make the whole thing built around PVP instead of PVE.
Oh, well.
ok, i'm not very sure if this is a joke or not... i will have to wait until tomorrow and see if that's true or they are playing with my feelings :(
I liked when I leveled my hydrolisk to 40 fast and evolved into a Lurker. I just walked into one of the pkenabled towns and no one had a siege tank yet, they were all marines,scv or firebats. I just burrowed in and scored tons of kills while people screamed "Griefer. Lurker, don't go in there, I told you not to. Why you going back again."
I think next time I'll play a dark templar and merge with someone else's dark templar at 40. Sure one guy controls the movement and the other the mind control, but its fun to mind control an scv and have him harvest minerals for me so we can ebay them. I think by the month's end I'll have an army of chinese SCV mining minerals for me and then I can totally sell Battlecruisers on ebay.
God spoke to me.
4/1 must be the most boring day on Slashdot. All there is is fake news, which means the parallel universe that mirrors our own is having a lot of interesting things happen, but we aren't. The day the world stood still? 4/1.
I find it funny how the terms 'gay' and 'straight' are part of the tags for every single 4/1 post. Why?
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
It's only funny when it doesn't make me cry that this didn't happen. Starcraft was so much more interesting than Warcraft.
What day is it? Could you please tell me?
I think I would kill to get this game, I mean this is all I ever asked wow to be.
What really disturbs me is that the folks at Gamespot came up with what sounded like a pretty workable way to put in a race like the Zerg into an MMORPG as an April fool's joke. I thought the whole idea of World of Starcraft sounded extremely cool, but the Zerg race notes sounded like it might be a workable game mechanic...
"Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
While this is clearly a joke post, the idea is pretty cool. A large scale RTS, where some players act as officers (giving directions), and others act as grunts (and get to plaster "real" people), would be pretty cool. I suppose once the THz processors come out, this will be a blast!
if blizzard did something other than add stuff to world of warcraft! Seriously, what is up with them? Don't they made games anymore?
Eight years later, all of their fans are still waiting for starcraft II...
The original Total Annihilation crew is hard at work making a successor (Supreme Commander) to the beloved TA.
Can we stop all this crap and just release StarCraft 2??
I think that what makes it worse is that people still play the first Starcraft. If it was an MMORPG I think we'd all die.
ahhhgh! that is cruel! I actually belived it for second and then they got to that "burgercraft" part.
Seriously, I'm beginning to think Blizzard specifically hates my particular demographic. I knew this would be an April Fool's joke, but remembering prior jokes that turned out later to be true (Gmail anyone?) one always hopes. And it had me going, too, until they reached the BurgerCraft part.
Damnit, Blizzard made a great game in Starcraft and then totally shut down that whole franchise. Millions of people would gnaw off their hands for an opportunity to play Starcraft 2, and yet Blizzard dumps it in the corner and walks away. So you sign up for World of Warcraft, roll an Alliance rogue, and just for fun, decide to become an engineer. Blizzard has decreed that all rogues are to be disowned. Might as well delete the character, because a level 60 rogue ain't gettin' any love from Blizz. On my server, at least, the Horde seems much more organized and intelligent than the Alliance. And just for kicks, the engineering profession is basically useless.
So why is it again that Blizzard seems determined to drive me away?
That's about the dumbest April Fools joke I've ever seen.
Dammit, I totally fell for this one!
Now I have to go tell my former employer, my ex-wife, and the nuns at the orphanage that it was all just a joke! Thanks a lot pinkdot.
DAMMIT
I Am a 6 year starcraft addict, i will donate my liver, 1 kidney, a lung and my hart for a new part of the Sc Franchise, FOR GOD SAKE GIVEME SC;ghost or Sc 2 ANNYTHING, Love the idear of MMOG of starcraft as long as 4 things happen. Scv will be able to build definsive/ofensive buldings, templar MUST KICK ARSE, the universe must have HUGE amounts of Ai. units controled by a goverment from each faction in order to make battles masive, MUST NOT HAVE Ato. aim all wepons must be controled by the player. I stress the last point because it would make the game ingaging, insted of just telling your dude to shoot, you MUST be doing the aiming (--FPS) and the fighting (hand to hand) units should be like Mortal Combat (using key combs. to make attacks) this is so it makes the strengh of the unit proportional to the skill of the player.
Also ALL UNITS MUST BE INCLUDED however gave then weaknesses that can be exploited by players
EG, ultrilisk should be almost invonrable to attack, but if attacked by "magic" it sould be realy weak
also air units should be included, making them weak againts scv buildings maby?
And finally i was joking i wont give away my organs to anyone, because it gets hard to play Sc on dialias
Are this article and pictures cached anywhere? I think I missed my chance to dream.
I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
It's scrumtrulescent!
Then theres the nitpicking, but otherwise its all there. Storyline, key NPCs, THREE seperate sides with openings for cross-cooperation, planets and locations they can pull out of their ass... (Whoever heard of The Temple of Atal'Hakkar or Gnomeregan prior to WoW?)
I don't mean believe the story, I mean if they had a Starcraft MMORPG, I'd play it. I'd play a 40K mmorpg also.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to conviction
Though I know that this is clearly an April Fools prank...I have one thing to say... FINISH Burning Crusade....we want it!!!