At the beginning I was happy about seeing this new team popping up, but after this I definetly not gonna support this team in anyway. This was just a outrageous try to get attention.

pPingu

Switzerland2892 Posts

April 01 2012 13:14 GMT

#323

Ok so the announcement says that people were doubting if it was a real team or a scam, so they had the idea to make as if it was a scam (some people in team found it was a good idea, others didn't), they knew there was a risk with this for them

Everything was paid and there is no problem, they announce their new players

Serimek

France2274 Posts

April 01 2012 13:14 GMT

#324

Ludicrous and shameful.

RPR_Tempest

Australia7798 Posts

April 01 2012 13:14 GMT

#325

This is actually a really interesting way of getting publicity. Very nicely planned and executed by them.

figq

12519 Posts

April 01 2012 13:16 GMT

#326

I liked the joke, because it was too bad to be really a joke and actually made many people angry for real. Those are the best 1st April jokes in my book that I remember later, because they managed to make me angry at the time. Well played.

By the way, their Liquipedia page was created a month ago and since the beginning it had as team creation date 1st April 2012. So... expecting some dramatic joke announcement/opening should have been normal, even disregarding their site.

LeLfe

France3160 Posts

April 01 2012 13:16 GMT

#327

On April 01 2012 02:08 LeLfe wrote:

Show nested quote +

see what you did there!

anyway as long as it's april first and all players came to react, I wouldn't even be surprised if it were somekind of buzz...

You read it there first...

IBringUFire

Germany103 Posts

April 01 2012 13:17 GMT

#328

Well, nicely executed. Although many people guessed it right.

One thing though: Would have been nice to have the explication in English when booting the website. I mean, all the other stuff IS translated, but the most important part isn't?

Happy April Fools...

2DGod

England3 Posts

April 01 2012 13:18 GMT

#329

http://www.eclypsia.com/en/news-38.html

iAmBiGbiRd

Australia1029 Posts

April 01 2012 13:18 GMT

#330

As has already been said, any kind of PR is good PR and they have probably gained attention from a lot of people who knew little to nothing about the team, looking forward to seeing EC in the future

Arcanefrost

Belgium1257 Posts

April 01 2012 13:19 GMT

#331

April fools seriously, you guys are so retarded.

How2getMaster

Germany124 Posts

April 01 2012 13:23 GMT

#332

Starcraft II is such a profession nowaydays. How can something like this still happen?

Greetings.

enecateReAP

United Kingdom378 Posts

April 01 2012 13:23 GMT

#333

You're all such retards, saying you won't support a team because they tricked you? Lets all not support coL because they joked about dropping sc2!!!
Seriously, chill out drama whores...

Awesome new pickups btw

Bashnek

Australia895 Posts

April 01 2012 13:25 GMT

#334

Thought it'd be april fools, Well played, well played.

I dont blame people for taking it serious though, even the team knew there were doubts about "legitimacy", which is why they used it to fantastic effect.

I like..... "most" of the new pickups. GL eclypsia! ^_^

SolHeiM

Sweden1264 Posts

April 01 2012 13:25 GMT

#335

This was the most retarded April fool's in the history of the world. I have no idea how people find this kind of April fool's acceptable. If it had been any other day of the year, and the management came a day after and said "lol jk, just doing some PR" people would've gone fucking apeshit.

What is it with the world these days where anything goes just because it's April 1st? This "holiday" of tricking people is fucking ridiculous.

I for one will do my best to avoid any player or person associated with Eclypsia, because these kind of jokes are not how an organization who are struggling in an already struggling business are supposed to conduct themselves. This was not professional, it was the most unprofessional "joke" I have ever been apart of.

Congratulations, you fooled me. You also alienated me. That's not what an April fool's is supposed to do.

teddyoojo

Germany22369 Posts

April 01 2012 13:25 GMT

#336

pathetic, just pathetic.

kaup

Germany22 Posts

April 01 2012 13:27 GMT

#337

make fun about such topics it not funny,,,,, very funny guys very good.. not ... you should get really banned TT

Poltergeist-

Sweden336 Posts

April 01 2012 13:27 GMT

#338

Wow, a successful April Fool's joke and some people get all upset. Relax!

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

April 01 2012 13:28 GMT

#339

Well played. Most April Fools jokes are so predictable and obvious these days. This one had a lot of people guessing and confused for a while. Thumbs up from me.

pdd

Australia9933 Posts

April 01 2012 13:32 GMT

#340

Erm is it only me or does anyone else only see a black screen on the website? For some reason though everytime I right click and drag the screen it kinda pulls an image out (which is what happens when u do it to images on Chrome)

EDIT: Tried it on Firefox and it seems to work now. Something to do with Chrome or a plugin I have on Chrome I guess.