Facebook Buys The Escapist for $90 Million - Update

[Atomic Spy Crab]

April fool!
Facescapist

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

Leems segit.

Sorry, but this one was too obvious. Saw this just by the name of the thread alone.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Wow, on April's Fools day... how lame.
Really guys, just don't try if you're just not gonna make up something actually worth a chuckle.

April Fools Day has become so popular and routine these days that there's no surprise involved at all. Nobody believes anything that anybody says on April Fools Day, which defeats the purpose.

 

[JoJo]

No way, I was considering posting this exact topic as an April Fools when I was at work today and then come home to find I was beaten to it by the staff themselves, great minds think alike eh? Good on you, hope a few head's spun when they read this XD

 

[Chrozi]

I want my kickstarter money back.

 

[lokicdn]

Brilliant, one of the better ones I've seen today.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Oh you motherfuckers, You actually had me going for a moment for a while there...
...
Seriously, I was depressed as fuck about this site becoming Facebook: Gaming.

 

[Silverspud]

Whoo, you got me.

 

[Saetha]

Wait, what?

Wait, WHAT?

Oh, right April Fool's. Damn, it gets me every time. Well, gotta admit, I had a nice laugh over the sheer absurdity of this, when I saw the article posted.

 

[erbi79]

Love it ^^ my favorite parts were the:
"Mr. Sterling will be transitioning from the company in May."
"Mr. Chipman will be transitioning from the company in May."
etc.
jokes

 

[themilo504]

When I saw the title I actually believed it until I realized what day it was, you managed to win this time but next year I shall have my revenge.

 

[Brian Tams]

April Fools jokes are only good if you're going to fully commit to them, esccapist.

Come on! Where are the intrusive adds, the popups, the autoplaying... ads... the... uh... ummmmmm.... shoddy videoplayer?

Well, this is awkward.

EDIT: Hey, at least you don't require us to sign in exclusively through our facebook accounts yet. Yet.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

HA! For a second it got me, then I thought, and then I laughed. Well done. Good timing what with the recent changes. Though, it would have been better if ya waited to change today.

Does this mean I get a pay rise? AWW YIS!

You get paid?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

You lost me at the "Rolling Stone" of game journalism. :/

Yeah, same here. Still funny though.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

I guess I'm more gullible than most here, because I almost had a fucking heart attack. Granted, I never pay any attention to the dates.

They totally had me up until I checked the comments and found out that I'm the slow one of the group.

 

[M920CAIN]

I'm not laughing. No one here is dumb enough to believe it. Should've tried harder to fool the audience.

 

[Risingblade]

At least it wasn't google!

 

[thewatergamer]

Good one

 

[dalek sec]

I'll be honest, you got me at first. But the bit about cash bonuses gave it away. I just can't see facebook doing that. Then I noticed the Rolling Stone bit and the $90 million sale price.

Same here, I almost screamed but I took a moment to look at the rest and saw the cash bonuses as well. There is no way in hell Facebook would do such a thing.

Very clever guys but damn it all if you didn't make my heart flatline... D:

 

[omega 616]

Aw, come on ... it's not really an April fools "prank" if you can tell from the title that it's a prank.

You priced yourself far too high, might have paused for thought at $100K but $90 mil? You over reached and ruined it.