Gleemax = Enworld

[Nifft]

I for one welcome our new lime-green GLEE.N.World masters.

Mua-ha-ha, -- N

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Gleemax sounds like some kind of sexual protective device.

"Man, I woulda gotten laid last night, but she had her Gleemax on!"

 

[Merkuri]

Gleemax sounds like some kind of sexual protective device.

That's funny... I think that's the exact opposite of what most people think it sounds like.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The more people complain about the name, the more I want to use a Brain in a Jar from Libris Mortis in an adventure.

 

[Khairn]

Here are a few random thoughts ...

Letter from the VP of Digital Gaming explaining what they are trying to do is a good thing. Hey, I said WotC did a "good thing". I need to write that down in my journal. Now for the rest of this ...

The name ... Gleemax ? Ugh A tribute to an obscure Magic The Gathering card. Ugh Ugh

Font ... yech

Style ... oops that dosn't look right. In fact my eyes are burning.

Since when did being called a minion become kewl?

Overall, my willingness to ever see that site again ? .... None, Nada, Zip, Niente


Hey Randy, next time you try to introduce the first visible face of a new and confrontational business model you might want to create something that is in some way interesting or enjoyable to see. My first thought was actually that someone had broken into the WotC site and Fubar'ed your launch. When I realized that I was looking at the "planned" page ... I was less than impressed.

 

[molonel]

No, actually we'll soon have:

Dragon -> Dragon Online!
Dungeon -> Dungeon Online!
nothing -> Gleemax!

There are bunches of names that sound really, really stupid when you first hear them, but with familiarity comes acceptance and affection.

EN World is really a very, very stupid name for a mainly D&D site. The EN means *nothing* to new people. It means something to those of us who've been around for 7 years. (eep!) However, because EN World has been around for 6 years or so, it has recognition value. It means something beyond those two stupid letters at the beginning.

Cheers!

Enworld is pretty much a bland name that rolls off the tongue without offending it. The first time I read it, it could best be described with the color grey. Neither particularly attractive, nor particularly silly.

Gleemax is just dumb. It's a M:tG joke. And it's pretty sad when the best they can shoot for is a really stupid name that is supposed to grow on you like mold.

I realize that there are going to be people who defend WotC up until they start slaughtering small children on the lawn, or something similarly indefensible, but come on. Cancelling Dragon and Dungeon the way they did, and then this?

I love when you click on the "Gleemax Speaks" link and receive the following:

http://gleemax.com/articles/speaks002.html

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Oh, that's just all kinds of heartening.

Agreed. I actively avoided anything with the name Gleemax at wizards.com, simply because I couldn't take the name seriously. I would have much preferred "Flumphy-poo".

I might have preferred that, as well.

But hey! At least they gave us a Flickr account, right?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8548923@N08/

First they picked a name that only has meaning to insiders and one particular game (and only to the hardcore players who bought Unhinged) and additionally opens itself to ridicule. Why not pick a name that can be understood and embraced by all gamers if this is supposed to be a site for all gamers.

Exactly.

Lastly they also take this temporary website and skin it in the worst way possible. As harsh as it sounds radioactive cat urine is a fairly acurate description of the impression given. The color combination alone is siomething that will turn off alot a people stopping by to check it out for the first time. Once more this is supposed to be about all gamers but instead they skin it in color combinations that will turn away many otherwise interested people.

You know, I hadn't actually taken the time to look at their color scheme, but I just did, and wow. Radioactive cat urine is right.

 

[The Green Adam]

I come to EN World for a lot of reasons...people, the subject matter, the interface...IMHO and with no desire to cause trouble, I've always felt RPGnet to be a bit too pretencious and WotC Boards a bit too mainstream. The really creative ideas seem to pop up here.

That said, after reading the press release once or twice, my opinion is...huh? I'm not entirely sure what they have in mind. More specifically I'm not sure what about it is about Gleemax that is supposed to make me want to go there, other then to find out what it is that's supposed to make me want go there. :\

 

[Merkuri]

Tue, June 5
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Oh, that's just all kinds of heartening.

That's part of a game they were using to introduce Gleemax that started with a bunch of people being sent foam brains in the mail with a code on them. The extra characters are a code that sends you further down the game trail. That part's been solved by people chatting in the Gleemax part of the WotC boards.

 

[The Green Adam]

Gleemax sounds like some kind of sexual protective device.

"Man, I woulda gotten laid last night, but she had her Gleemax on!"

Yeah I would think the opposite.

"Don't double her pleasure - set it to overload with new GLEEMAX! For MAXIMUM GLEE!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Heh. Stupid name, and yet another doomed attempt to 'get down' with what the kids R doing these days.

-Hyp.