Nifft
Penguin Herder
Cryptic... Ravenloft.
Well, at least you know anything in Ravenloft won't stay dead.
Cheers, -- N
Gleemax is Dead
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Well, at least you know anything in Ravenloft won't stay dead.
Cheers, -- N
Mouseferatu
Hero
This is the silliest thing I've read online in quite some time, and that's saying something.
mhensley
First Post
Actually it's doubtful that the team working on Gleemax have the right skill set to also work on the DDI tools. Plus it's usually disastrous to throw new people into a project that's so far along.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
It didn't exactly take Nostradamus to see that Gleemax launched poorly and got worse instead of better as time went on.
wayne62682
First Post
SavageRobby
First Post
Which means, of course, Wizards will probably do it.
Charwoman Gene
Adventurer
Yes, we do. I've given Pathfinder a few looks, not happy. I apologize for hitting one of my Paizo traps. I'm still pissed off about the "deformed Mongoloid stillbirth" comment from Erik Mona.
Better Than 10 Super bowls
Reading this thread reminded me, of all things, of something I heard while listening to a commentary on a DVD of the Simpson’s.
In the episode, Homer is pitching something as “better than 10 super bowls” and in the commentary the writers and producers joke about how they have to pitch things like that to get them to go anywhere.
But you know what is better than 10 super bowls? It’s 11 super bowls. No single episode, movies, video game or what not can match 10 super bowls. But to get the attention of the people who make these things possible, a project is pitched as something it is not and it is predicted that it will achieve success it will never actually reach.
Watching as the 4E situation – the new edition itself and the associated projects and projects – unfold, devolve and in some case fail, I have this nagging feeling that someone, in some meeting, just to get something done, predicted it will (more or less) be “better than 10 super bowls.”
Gleemax was never going to become the be-all and end-all of DnD on-line community and gaming. Had it been pitched as a valuable tool and a community that WotC could control, that would have been an accurate prediction but it probably would not have gotten the attention and funding of Hasbro.
I feel this may have happened to a lot of the 4E situation. So more of it will fail, not because it is bad but because the goals and standards were set ludicrously high.
So, what will be the next to collapse?
...and now, watch for changes in key staff.
This does not look good.
Reading this thread reminded me, of all things, of something I heard while listening to a commentary on a DVD of the Simpson’s.
In the episode, Homer is pitching something as “better than 10 super bowls” and in the commentary the writers and producers joke about how they have to pitch things like that to get them to go anywhere.
But you know what is better than 10 super bowls? It’s 11 super bowls. No single episode, movies, video game or what not can match 10 super bowls. But to get the attention of the people who make these things possible, a project is pitched as something it is not and it is predicted that it will achieve success it will never actually reach.
Watching as the 4E situation – the new edition itself and the associated projects and projects – unfold, devolve and in some case fail, I have this nagging feeling that someone, in some meeting, just to get something done, predicted it will (more or less) be “better than 10 super bowls.”
Gleemax was never going to become the be-all and end-all of DnD on-line community and gaming. Had it been pitched as a valuable tool and a community that WotC could control, that would have been an accurate prediction but it probably would not have gotten the attention and funding of Hasbro.
I feel this may have happened to a lot of the 4E situation. So more of it will fail, not because it is bad but because the goals and standards were set ludicrously high.
So, what will be the next to collapse?
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Looks like there's a pretty major shake-up going on over in Renton.
Frankly, I'm far less bothered (or personally impacted) by this aspect of WotC's recent efforts at refocusing than I am by their change in novel publication policies: http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/default.aspx?doc=main_discoveries07252008&=RSS-BOOKS
Seeing as how this means I've had not one, but two novels yanked from the publication schedule.And I know I'm far from the only one.
Major condolences, dude.
Looks like some marketroid rolled on the Random Buzzword Table and got "Refocus on our core competencies."
Next time, they might roll "Expand into new market spaces" and it will all start over again...
I do see some good coming from this; as I noted over in the GSL forums, if WOTC doesn't see fansites as potential competition, it might mean their as-yet-unrevealed fan site policy might be more lenient than it otherwise could have been. We'll see.
DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
I'm guessing the new CEO wants to put his stamp on things...
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