Gleemax = Enworld

[carmachu]

And I don't see anything that automatically makes Gleemax a bad name for the service. For some people, sure. But that's the case with any name you come up with. And if the Magic crowd loves it, that's a strong plus for the name.

It could be bad, it's just that I'm not prepared to carpet bomb the marketing at WotC, because I simply don't know what process they've been through and what data they have.

Try looking at it this way:

You use an injoke name that the already won over M:TG crowd likes.....but its looking like its not hleping your cause with the RPG crowd, who you've already pissed off a good segment with your announcement of Dragon and Dungeon. Which has been promised something "REALLY REALLY COOL!!!!!" but they cant talk about......

You already have negative press, and release something that looks like horse vomit so far....WotC isnt exactly batting a thousand here with the RPG crowd. While its nice they want a larger audience....throwing us a bone would have been better....

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The D&D counterpart to Gleemax will be called Meepo and all will thus be forgiven.

 

[Merkuri]

Hmm, out of curiosity, would people be more accepting of the name if it sounded like "Gleemax" but wasn't spelled so obviously? Like "Gleamix"? Or "Gliimex"? Just wondering if there's a possible way to keep the history of the name without having it look like something that's not safe for work.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with WotC and just came up with an idea. I have no authority whatsoever to actually change the name. And somehow I doubt they'd change it regardless, since they trademarked it and everything. Who knows, though.

 

[D.Shaffer]

The D&D counterpart to Gleemax will be called Meepo and all will thus be forgiven.

Of course, if they DID call it Meepo, people on non DND sites would be saying the exact same thing I'm seeing here.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Mike,

Glad to see you here and glad to know that we are being listened to. I don't think you have to be worried about being kicked off of here for advertising.

Something I posted over at the Gleemax site but deserves repeating here. Right now WotC has announced this cool new concept. Lots of people seem to be onboard with the concept. What is happening now though is that people are going over there to check things out (even knowing that full functionallity and implementation are not done) What they find however is one giant ARG that has appsolutely nothing to do with the final concept. There are only two forums as well. One is reply only and for anouncements, the other is a nightmare of a place that is solely about the ARG and full of people who complain when newbies stop by looking for the future concept.

There really needs to be at least a third forum set up over there dedicated to the future of Gleemax and not the the ARG at all. This is not to say that the game can't continue but that now that the announcemment is out at least something has to be done over there to welcome all the new people who were "invited" to be part of this new community.

It was anounced over there by Randy that starting next week there would be daily entries of various kinds to help promote the future design. Before then, and hopefully today still the administrator will at least set up a temporary forum for all the new people to post in. I want this to be a success as well but right now in the first few days people are comming away upset rather than encouraged by what they see.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Of course, if they DID call it Meepo, people on non DND sites would be saying the exact same thing I'm seeing here.

And the ridicule would be even worse. Me Poo, now that is just grosse.

 

[Mortellan]

I'm still not feeling it. I guess it'll have to wait till after gencon when the answers are more clear.

 

[Mike_Lescault]

Something I posted over at the Gleemax site but deserves repeating here. Right now WotC has announced this cool new concept. Lots of people seem to be onboard with the concept. What is happening now though is that people are going over there to check things out (even knowing that full functionallity and implementation are not done) What they find however is one giant ARG that has appsolutely nothing to do with the final concept. There are only two forums as well. One is reply only and for anouncements, the other is a nightmare of a place that is solely about the ARG and full of people who complain when newbies stop by looking for the future concept.

In our 8:30 meeting this morning, this was raised by several people, most of whom I suspect saw your post on our forums about. It's definitely something that needs to happen, and we're working on adding more forums. Not sure how quickly we can get them up, but we'll see.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Thanks Mike, Good to hear.

 

[trancejeremy]

Heh, that is so not true.

Yeah, tell that to Sony. Pretty much every day, there is bad news about them. I think they would be very happy with no news