So the yearly joke is over now.

In my opinion the previous years' jokes were better, this Hfire thing was quite lame. But the people's reactions on the forums were always the best thing in Xfire's april fools jokes, and it was this year too.

What I like in Xfire's jokes is that they are interesting in technical aspect. For example changing the game names and icons, that required editing the web code and database contents. Having the site in 1337 language dynamically created on the fly was also interesting in technical view. And now having all videos redirect to some specific videos, keeping count of them to later allow viewing videos normally.

Gotta love the Xfire web team making this possible, instead of fixing some "easy" bugs such as { and } characters getting messed up in blog posts and having escaped characters turn into HTML entity codes in video comments.

EDIT: See? Those were originally { and } but turned out to numerical entity codes

So what were we left with after all this?

• 37 locked topics in General
  
• 16 locked topics in Technical Support - OPEN
  
• 4 locked topics in other forum areas
  
• a few topics not locked about the case around the place
  
• threats to leave Xfire (like every year)
  
• people dying (at least they posted they died)
  
• lulz?

Some people really didn't seem to know that such a thing as April Fools' day existed. There are people from many cultures using Xfire and this concept of making mad jokes in one day of a year is not known to everyone.

Some of the Xfire chat logs (names changed, I am feeling nice):

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[15:51] WP: what is up with xfire
[15:51] WP: when you go to profiles
[15:51] GODJonez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day
[15:53] WP: lol
[15:53] WP: thx

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[19:09] Li: hi man
[19:09] Li: whats up with xfire and nude gay stuff
[19:10] GODJonez: this day
[19:10] Li: =\
[19:10] Li: i dont understand
[19:10] GODJonez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day
[19:11] Li: ty

And I even got a PM on forums:

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to make jokes on the 1 april is ok but to change movies and backgrounds thats a bit to much sorry is that prog for 10 years old kids or so ?

It's only 364 days until next April Fools' Day, so prepare yourselves!