How an April Fools joke positively affected the community

EvilUnicornLord·Apr 3, 2017·4 votes·658 views

Who could have thought that pretending players were bots was a good thing?

MYRPH, in the article /dev: Do Bots Dream of Electric Poros? commented on the situation.

So i came here after being in a "bot" game. Best thing ever riot. We were getting wrecked, but because we were "against bots" we didn't flame each other we were like, okay guys we cant lose to bots. We came back to win, just to see that the other team thought they lost to bots and were saying how embarrassing it was. Such a team building experience when you didn't read about it before it happens to you. hahaha.

Now I wish my computer wasn't broken (posting this on mobile) so I could have joined the event.

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7 Comments

TormentulaApr 3, 20174 votes

I find this magic change more drastic than any rework, jungle change, or class update:

All chat being disabled. Not only do I feel more at ease without that lv 7 yasuo going "ez" every time he gets a gank, but I also feel less incline to /all bm myself or my team.

Overall, I realised through this experiment how much of a difference all chat makes to the community. It only exist for salt.. like seriously less than 1-100 games all chat used for a good reason.

Kinda disable that in my client settings actually.

LimmieApr 3, 20171 votes

I disabled /all chat in my game ever since I started playing SMITE and realized how much better the games were (there's no all chat there). Nowadays I even /mute all in ranked games.

TormentulaApr 3, 20172 votes

Yea I love smite, its super chill and I think that's why. Sometimes the V commands get spammed like missing pings in league but its not as bad.

TyrekGoldenspearApr 3, 20171 votes

It's still on now. Not sure how much longer.

EvilUnicornLordApr 3, 20171 votes

Good news is there is progress on getting the PC fixed. My uncle (who is a computer whiz) took the hard drive from the computer when he went back to Montana, now he's done what he can to repair the damages and is mailing it back.

Bad news is I'M STILL MISSING EVERY EVENT!!! I like playing Dark Souls 2 on the Xbox but that can't be the only thing I play!

Variety! I crave variety!

######sorry.

rework trundleApr 3, 20171 votes

That's weird, I started bm'ing a lot more the other team than normally. ######Even though I will emote lvl 7 whenever I kill my opponent in almost every situation. hehe xd