I don't find it funny.

[Pixela]

April fools stuff = bad timing.

Both the patch notes and the smashed home points.

[Alhanelem]

Grow a sense of humor then.

I had a good chuckle and I'm glad SE has the sense of humor you seem to lack.

[Uriah]

Such a great use of the limited resources that are constantly lamented.

When you screw up the actual update because you thought it would be cute to do this, don't forget to be extra sorry about it.

[Tarmarkvar]

Such a great use of the limited resources that are constantly lamented.

When you screw up the actual update because you thought it would be cute to do this, don't forget to be extra sorry about it.

Are you for real? Do you not get that, other than the smashed homepoints, none of the stuff mentioned in the fake update notes was actually implemented? The resources it took to create this was a static web page. Most likely the post itself was generated by inputting values into a template. I would be surprised if this took more that 8 man hours (8 working hours divided up among some number of workers) to create, with most of that time being a 45 minute pitch meeting. The smashed telepoints were probably a single value in a configuration file or a database. Something like "point the home point resource to this image file instead of this one). I would bet anything that the home point thing will be automatically overwritten as part of their deployment process. Two weeks ago I had to make a hot swappable configuration file change to fix a bug, then I had to make the same change again last week after our regular scheduled deployment overwrote it.

How stupid do you think these experienced, professional programmers are that creating a web page and hot swapping some values is somehow going to mess up their development cycle?

[Alhanelem]

For a really long time many accused me of being the forum's biggest party pooper dunking on everything. Are the two of you trying to earn that title or something?

This was a joke by the team, it took basically zero resources. Loosen up those subligars, they're clearly too tight on you guys.

[Allestra]

its harmless and kinda cute
I laughed

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Pixela]

>We are removing most of the team from the game to work on something else, you'll get less content updates for the game you've played for 20 years. Also here is an april fools patch notes of lots of pretend updates two days after telling you that you're not getting any more soon"

Hilarity.

>We are moving developers off the project, so we will spend some dev time of the two people left to make changes to the actual game that will be there for exactly one day, thanks for paying our wages to do this"

How about you took that time to do something useful instead?

People have posted hundreds of suggestions of things they would like changed, that don't even take long and it never happens. Yet they have time to make an npc have smoke trails.

I don't mind this kind of stuff under normal circumstances, but was now the correct time for this nonsense?

Can we have the adult back in charge please?

[Tarmarkvar]

>We are removing most of the team from the game to work on something else, you'll get less content updates for the game you've played for 20 years. Also here is an april fools patch notes of lots of pretend updates two days after telling you that you're not getting any more soon"

People have posted hundreds of suggestions of things they would like changed, that don't even take long and it never happens. Yet they have time to make an npc have smoke trails.

Do you just not understand that, in software development, not all changes are equal? Just because you can implement one trivially easy thing does not mean that you can implement some moderately difficult thing.

[Alhanelem]

Do you just not understand that, in software development, not all changes are equal? Just because you can implement one trivially easy thing does not mean that you can implement some moderately difficult thing.

The shattered crystal thing has been done before anyway, they just flipped a switch essentially. The GMs already have the ability to change things in the game, that's how the player event support works. And maybe people don't realize it but that service is still available.

[Pixela]

The shattered crystal thing has been done before anyway, they just flipped a switch essentially. The GMs already have the ability to change things in the game, that's how the player event support works. And maybe people don't realize it but that service is still available.

Personally: I was already feeling depressed about what was said in the producer announcmnent, I was logged in and had near no drive to do anything at all that I normally do and was getting ready to logout. Then I zone and see a shattered crystal, do I need to point out the lore and what crystals mean in XI? It's such a bad timed "joke" on something that has a lot of meaning in the lore of the game so soon after this maintenance mode announcment.

When I first saw it I was trying to figure out what it meant for a few seconds, and because XI is such a serious mmorpg I thought it was a sign from the developers that the game is dying and all the crystals are broken.

Then I see the delivery npc in sandy, with loony tunes smoke trails.