Valves April fools joke

[Just_A_Glitch]

I do hope that if this game ever does get released, it is on April Fools day, in a similar manner to this.

As for the joke, I love it, because I don't care one bit about the series.

 

[jpoon]

Hah, nice...crafty crafty gabe!

 

[Aeonknight]

Let's see.

Valve trolls it's fanbase using a subject that's already pretty touchy, and people applaud it.

EA tries to make money because they're a business and that's what they do, and they're the devil's spawn of the gaming industry.

Logic!

 

[Atmos Duality]

As long as you dont enter any passwords you should be fine.

I disabled my noscript and Avast+Malbytes didnt find anything, so it appears the website is clean at least. Could be phishing though.

EDIT: You know whats really annoying about this new captchas though? Noscript blocks them. >.>

"Never leap before you look." Checks are simple and quick. Repairs can take hours.

ASIDE: And yeah, I had to work around No-Script to use the new captchas.
Plus, doesn't it strike you as self-defeating to include static ads for a security check?
(ignoring for a moment the obvious incentives for ad-revenue)
You'd think those ads would get indexed and added to bot-scripts in a day, tops.

 

[lacktheknack]

Let's see.

Valve trolls it's fanbase using a subject that's already pretty touchy, and people applaud it.

EA tries to make money because they're a business and that's what they do, and they're the devil's spawn of the gaming industry.

Logic!

Valve didn't do it, so there's that.

There's also a difference between a picture of Gaben Newell with a trollface and having your purchases gimped.

 

[Erttheking]

Oh that is cruel, that is just fucking cruel.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I dunno man, it seems like I leap everyday without looking and nothing has happened... Yet. Kinda surprised I have gone this far without at least having my anti-virus pick up something and block it.

Maybe its because the kind of common sense you get by working with the internet for years is second nature to me. I dont even realize how careful I am anymore.

Well, part of it involves what parts of the net you go to or why.
It's part of why I told Lacktheknack "Good instincts". You just stop consciously noticing some of those things after a time or just know when to back away.

Then again, I'm a network security engineer by trade. Perhaps its a matter of perspective, since computer forensics is sometimes part of the job.

ASIDE: Oh look, it's "The all-new Chevy Sonic". Again. For the 6th time in two days.
If I can keep a Captcha response in a notepad on my desktop for some Copypasta action, IT'S FAILING TO DO ITS JOB.

 

[Vkmies]

It would have been funny if you could've actually bought it. Or at least proceed to almost pay for it.

Good job though. Gotta love you, Valve. Even though I totally called this.

 

[albear]

lmao at his troll face

Captcha: they ate it

....my cake?....those b*stards!

 

[Detective Prince]

You BASTARDS.

Very amusing.

Captcha: Life's Too Short.

Lol.

 

[Jandau]

Successful troll is sucessful. Well played, Gabe. Well played.

 

[Teimuraz]

Why do they joke about that?
Why not to get themselves together, and finally release arguably the most anticipated game? Why joke about it, making fans angrier?

This make no sense, so for some reason I think, anouncment is coming

 

[XMark]

This was not a valve site. Notice the extra p in steamppowered.

 

[Jaeger_CDN]

First thing I thought of when I saw the extra P in powered was the p-p-p-powerbook [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/p-p-p-powerbook] scam

 

[spectrenihlus]

Imagine if it was true though.

 

[Lunar Templar]

XD!!!

wow, i wonder how many people are PISSED off right now its fake XD


catchpa: on cloud nine

yes, i bet who ever made this is