Reality Studios Acquisition - APRIL FOOLS!!!

[Killer2354]

Lol, I caught the joke yesterday with the first people after thinking about it. This pretty sums up the devs' minds

[CraveMode]

I admit.. had me fooled as it was March 31st in the afternoon when I seen the news post.. I was excited about BF3 as our clan has whined about no mod tools.. but disappointed about no 128-player support on BF2 servers.

So, again, I am disappointed and happy, about the news.. no BF3 support, but there will be Arma 2 and 128 player support

[martinhjerpe]

About that 128 player support thingy, I haven't hear about that, is that all trolling too or did you actually do that?

[ThirdSin]

NOOOOOOOT man didnt u think bout any heart patients here :/

April 1st at Realitymod.com,
Killing the faint of heart since xxxx

No idea when you fools conglomerated into mod building murderers!! Whatevs though, it was a good laugh. Bonus - I didn't die.

[UK_Force]

About that 128 player support thingy, I haven't hear about that, is that all trolling too or did you actually do that?

That is true and being evaluated

[Stealth Clobber]

Hah, this was a laugh. I kept my mouth shut this time around; had plenty of feet in my mouth last April Fools when Vietnam was announced...

Jaymz']Stealth Clobber:
"I sometimes doubt the intelligence of the player base when they can't tell immediately that this is a joke. A new PR mod, announced less than a month after PR Arma2, and still in BF2, in VIETNAM, conveniently on April Fools Day.
Come on now lol"

[Fungus]

pwned *******!

[Jigsaw]

About that 128 player support thingy, I haven't hear about that, is that all trolling too or did you actually do that?

Not just been tried, but there is a test server regularly populated for it.

[Viper5]

It wouldn't be too unrealistic if EA or another company did buy us up, as they would want us to start working on something to make money strait away, although there would be no doubt Devs who would leave or not be hired who would most likely continue the work to finish off what had been started, much like when DICE brought up the DC team, many of the DC devs who didn't go to DICE to work on BF2 (with the ones who did may I note later all got sacked before BF2's release) kept on working on a final release of DC before they called it finished.

The first sign of any buyout would be Rhino's EA-mandated disappearance for grammar school

[SnipeHunt]

Project Reality 2 is still going ahead!

So is there any update on PR2? The last update was near 2 years ago and it from Eggman, who is listed as inactive now.

Has there been any significant progress in the last couple of years?

[Adriaan]

The first sign of any buyout would be Rhino's EA-mandated disappearance for grammar school

Oh snap!

[Bob of Mage]

If any of you think this joke was a little too hurtful, you should have seen what the site for NationStates did. The fake hacking had one guy threating legal action!

But to honest this wasn't much of a funny joke, more of a trick really. A new map where Canada invades D.C. would have been funny (even if fake). A crazy new faction would have worked too (Klingons anyone?).

[goguapsy]

Goguapsy, I dunno how many times we need to tell you this, it IS Reality Studios, BSS is a coalition of mods where Reality Studios is a real studio that owns the Project Reality title.

Sorry, only read saw it this time (with this and Scot's post).


But as I was saying, I didn't think that made sense, because I thought I had read that EA could take over all BF2 mods whenever they wanted (so there would be no "acquisition", just, well, taking )


BTW you only need to tell me once

(All I gotta do is read that one time... )

[dpq06]

I simply don't believe anything anyone tells me on March 31st and April 1st. It's actually hard to believe people are so easily fooled on April 1st.

[Bringerof_D]

lol some people post like they matter. Fact is we don't. we're just players who stumbled upon a good mod made by enthusiastic people who put a lot of work into something they give out for free. So what if they decided to use those skills to get a real job and make better for themselves?

besides its like they didnt even read through the entire op. PR2 work was to gear up pretty much immediately, where's the bad in that?

[Phillip.C921]

With co-op mod there are few maps only. Are there a way to get extra maps in v0.96??????

[Arc_Shielder]

lol some people post like they matter. Fact is we don't. we're just players who stumbled upon a good mod made by enthusiastic people who put a lot of work into something they give out for free. So what if they decided to use those skills to get a real job and make better for themselves?

besides its like they didnt even read through the entire op. PR2 work was to gear up pretty much immediately, where's the bad in that?

You got fooled

Just joking. But only a few like me actually read the signs and interpreted them logically with a clear "this is a April Fools joke". My disbelief wasn't specifically targeted at the ones scratching their heads over this, but rather the ones that got upset over it.

Honestly, I don't even think the DEVs were really trying...

They could of closed the Arma and Vietnam forums temporarily. The first page announcement could of sounded more "I hope you really understand" rather than "we're happy and getting paid so who cares?". Arma2 cancellation and some other stuff was hard to believe, the very least they could of said that they were restructuring the team with R-CONs and other community members to conclude those projects. DEVs could of make members understand why they had to do this instead of drunk sounding posts and even HELPING right after the announcement.

I'm pretty sure they were just as amazed as me in how many people fell for this. So yeah, I do think I have to right express my feelings toward most of the community like this:

[Doc.Pock]

lol arcturus nice one

[krispig]

Do some fricking work instead of wasting time on april fools thingy, its time to post up something about for exampel vietnam mod etc.

[bosco_]

You just delayed PR:Vietnam for another three months.