Japan - cruel Dragon Quest IX April Fools’ joke

[FaithRaven]

Demotruk said:

wfz said:

FaithRaven said:

Did any of you actually read the story entirely ? The "game launched last night and 2000 people went to buy the game at midnight" is the 1 april joke. That line pic is just a part of the joke. There was no such line.

 

My faith in the Japanese has been restored! How dare hatmoza try to taint their image.

 

:P

 

 

We simply don't know whether they went or not. I doubt anyone kept track.

God dammit learn to read ! There was no line, the game launch + the line is the joke ! That news was posted in the morning with the purpose for people to read it and cry that they weren't there for the game launch.

From Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5192983/the-cruelest-april-fools-joke-in-japan

According to Akiba Blog, over two-thousand people lined up at midnight today for DQIX. Midnight. Today. Today is April 1, and Dragon Quest IX is slated for release this July. This is according to the website. Note: people did not actually line up for it last night! The website merely has faked the launch.

Still, very cruel for those who woke up today and checked Akiba Blog website and thought they'd missed the game's launch — especially considering the number of times Dragon Quest IX has been delayed and how many Japanese gamers are impatiently waiting for it.