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*** In a slight subversion, they also announced a new neutral hero, the Goblin Tinker, for ''[[War Craft]] III'' on the same day that was not a joke. They tried to make it seem like either of the two could be real but it was fairly obvious.

** 2007: They announced Burgercraft: A chain of fast food restaurants that would serve Blizzard gamed themed food. They also announced the new Alliance race would be the Wisp, the weakest member of the Night Elf army, who could only attack by self-detonating. Finally, a "fired" employee "leaked" the [[http://www.wowpedia.org/Patch_1.11_

** 2008: Due to Blizzard's parent company purchasing Activision and changing its name from Vivendi to "Activision Blizzard", Blizzard announced a "second prestige" class: the Bard, which required you to play ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' while playing ''World of Warcraft''. Also, poking fun at Sony's attempt to turn their MMO ''[[Ever Quest]]'' into a ''[[War Craft]]'' style RTS, Blizzard announced that they were releasing "[[~~Wo W~~]]: Heroes of Azeroth", an RTS prequal to World of Warcraft. It was literally Warcraft III, and also served to poke fun at [[~~Wo W~~]] players who were [[Adaptation Displacement|unaware of the previous games and lore]]. There was also the announcement of the "Tauren [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Moorines]]" for [[Starcraft II (Video Game)|Starcraft II]].

** 2008: Due to Blizzard's parent company purchasing Activision and changing its name from Vivendi to "Activision Blizzard", Blizzard announced a "second prestige" class: the Bard, which required you to play ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' while playing ''World of Warcraft''. Also, poking fun at Sony's attempt to turn their MMO ''[[Ever Quest]]'' into a ''[[War Craft]]'' style RTS, Blizzard announced that they were releasing "[[WoW]]: Heroes of Azeroth", an RTS prequal to World of Warcraft. It was literally Warcraft III, and also served to poke fun at [[WoW]] players who were [[Adaptation Displacement|unaware of the previous games and lore]]. There was also the announcement of the "Tauren [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Moorines]]" for [[Starcraft II (Video Game)|Starcraft II]].

** 2009: Blizzard announced a dance battle system complete with trailer. The controls were said to work like riding a vehicle in ''Wrath of the Lich King''. For ''[[Starcraft]] II'', there was the announcement of Terratron, a [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Combining Mecha]] made out of Terran buildings. For ''[[Diablo]] III'', the Archivist was announced as a new class, basically having the character play a Deckard Cain-like old geezer whose dialogues are pretty much senile rantings. And on the UK ''World of Warcraft'' site, they announced a "Pimp My Mount" feature, which allows players to add ridiculous customizations to their mounts a la ''[[Pimp My Ride]]''. Additionally, every post made of the World of Warcraft forums that day was peppered with random roleplaying lines.

** 2010: Blizzard announced a new character rating for ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' called the [[Fun With Acronyms|Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number]] a vertical bar on your character that [[Does This Remind You of Anything|grows]] as their gear improves (a [[Take That]] at players who rely too much on gear ratings to determine their worth), and the Battle.net Neural Interface which [[And I Must Scream|permanently]] immerses the player in full VR and [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|hopefully doesn't cause any permanent brain damage]]. And the WoW Armory character feeds had all boss kills changed to "<Player> Cheesed Boss" and all loot changed to "<Player> [[Ninja Looting|Ninjaed]] [Item]". Blizzard also introduced the new Battle.net matchmaker, a dating site where players would find romance in the form of "Someone to pwn noobs with." They also announced ''[[Diablo]] III'' blankets and pillows and a Deckard Cain GPS voice pack to go with it.