Chris

It's 2nd April guys. Do you see taking the layout down? Nope.... I like how everyone thought this was our April Fools joke. This design is here to stay

So it wasn't an April Fools. They genuinely were closing down but the founders bought it back from Ziff Davis. Apparently, according to their updated message which they themselves claim is also not an April Fools. LOL at how empty their footer is now though. Ziff Davis had a shitload of links to their network sites there. Fucking stupid timing though. A lot of people are going to assume they did close down from their earlier announcement and never visit the site again. The founders now have a nice job on their hands to get traffic back. @azn: That's such a stupid statement. MediaFire is better? How? How can you compare a gaming downloads portal like FileFront, to a general file-sharing website like MediaFire? There's no directories, no searching etc. Have you even ever been on FileFront or know what it is?

Well it's Wolverhampton yeah which is fairly near Birmingham. It's the offices of his ISP that are located in Manchester. His ISP btw, is tailored for small businesses. His parents must run a business from home or something. But yeah my point is, abusing a business broadband package usually has worse consequences.

I know. I even mentioned her RE collection in posts before :/

ROFL. I just read what he wrote. "Lurk before you leap". So basically, hang around for a bit then randomly leap into it.

lol dongs.

This is not the future my mother warned me about

Well, you did come to a site filled with horny teenage boys. Judging by some of the comments here, am I to anticipate a large petition to keep the theme on here past April 1st?

I like how they used the exact same timeframe for their fake GTA as ours, except, we did ours 3 years before...

Yeah it's cool and all but I don't think we have anywhere to use it. This design doesn't suit custom made artwork really. GTA-Series.com is a site that is designed around his custom artwork and the whole site is like it so it looks good. If we used it here I think it'd be a bit out of place.

Yeah I already had a screen of it, not because it said "Gay" though, I just tend to screenshot/scan anytime I'm featured in a magazine or professional website.

NineMSN just changed the caption from Gay Theft Auto to Girl Theft Auto... Some up-tight gay guy must've got offended or something :/ That or they realised we targeted girls anyway, not gay guys And yeah Joe you aren't the only one. On a slightly related note, my Mum saw this and loves the design!

Lulz I r famous. I lol'd at their description too. To be fair I would assume they simple keep an eye on http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/ and just post their faves. We got submitted there fairly early on in the day. We were within the first 60-70 sites on there this year. Back in 2006, we made #7 in their featured websites list which was pretty impressive. Still pretty cool we randomly get featured on NineMSN.com.au though. Pretty big news site in Australia is it not?

*Ahem*

But why would you want your current one deleted?

Why would you want another one?

Jesus Christ guys. Please remember we DO have a website as well as these forums! http://www.thegtaplace.com/

Oh don't be such a party pooper. You know you love it.

UPDATE: April Fools is over now so we're back to normal. Hope you got a bit of a laugh from the temporary redesign! Didn't get a chance to see it? Look here. After spending a while here at TGTAP, you'll realise what a masculine place it is. Guns, vehicles, crime, and a whole lot of adolescent males. Well, we've made a few changes to help counter this awfully skewed demographic we've gotten ourselves into. Over the past few years, TGTAP staff members have spent months researching ways in which we can make the site appeal to the fairer sex. After much deliberation, the conclusion was made that we should have a very pink layout incorporating typical female likes, including flowers, rainbows and unicorns. Apparently women love that stuff, so with that knowledge firmly engrained in our skulls, we committed to improving our design! We hope you enjoy the changes we made, and in addition to that, the influx of female members who should now be clamouring to join the forums! And don't you worry, we'll still be doing our best to bring you excellent coverage of Grand Theft Auto for years to come. At the moment just the default theme has changed on the homepage, but we should soon have the forums reskinned to match. Comments, feedback and any constructive criticism would be much appreciated.

Ha! Nope it's not actually. And tbh my 360 list isn't that big either. Probably 70-80 people on that. Haven't been on the PS3 for a few days but there's only like 4 or 5 people I've added. I'll go and add you now actually while I'm here. Most people here haven't added me, either because they don't know or don't care. I guess when I actually start playing multiplayer stuff people will start adding and I'll have a stupidly long friends list full of people I don't know and never play with In many ways it's better being less popular. So many people on 360 add me and like, most I don't even know who they are. Hardly ever play on it now either Good to hear you're getting a PS3 too TM!

ROFL. If this really was just a ruse then it's possibly the worst April Fools ever. Several reasons: 1. Announced over a week early 2. Though getting a lot of free publicity, majority of comments across gaming sites are negative so it's a hell of a lot of negative publicity for them. Good one.

Was born a noodle, and his mother didn't even give him a name. Poor thing.

Not anymore. Boxxy can suck my cock.