Gleemax is Dead

[TerraDave]

- This change is a very very good thing

Yes, yes it is.












LONG LIVE ENWORLD!

 

[Festivus]

Hi All,

A couple of points, which some folks have already pointed out, but worth highlighting:

- The Wizards of the Coast forums are not going away. Nothing will change with the D&D forum area.

- Staff blogs will continue to exist on our forums in our Staff Blog section.

- This change is a very very good thing, as it allows us to focus on Magic Online and D&Di, both of which deserve our attention and resources.

Let me know if you have any other questions. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread. Thanks!

-Mike

Just tell me where I can mail the Jolt cola and gummy bears for the DDI programming staff. I have been looking forward to the tabletop for a while now.

If WoTC moves too slowly, other replacements (OpenRPG, FG2, etc) will look much more appealing (speaking of my online group of friends opinions towards virutal tabletop DDI). Already we are playing 4E on Fantasy Grounds but my expectation is for something much more integrated. Too far down the road and it might be difficult to sell me on it.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Gleemax, to me, felt like an injoke and I wasn't initiated. The strange name must have been hilarious to the insiders but I had the sneaking suspicion I was the object of the joke. Maybe that's just me. Happy gamer, that I am.

I hope they won't be deterred by the failure of Gleemax. Some birds just won't fly.

 

[Branduil]

So how troubling are those pages at the end of the core books that say "Join D&D Insider, powered by Gleemax!" now?

 

[Xyxox]

I also recall WotC stating at the Gleemax announcement that it had full corporate backing and that despite naysayers WotC was fully committed to this. It seems now that DDI has full corporate backing as well. At this point I don't trust any statements coming out of WotC.

DDI = eTools 4.0

So how troubling are those pages at the end of the core books that say "Join D&D Insider, powered by Gleemax!" now?

Why would that be any more troubling than those CD-ROMs of sneak peek software in the back of the 3rd edition PHB's?

D'oh!

 

[Teflon Billy]

NIGEL: I think he’s right, there is something about this, that’s that’s so black, it’s like; “How much more black could this be?” and the answer is: “None, none... more black.”

DAVID: I think, like you’re, like rationalizing this whole thing like into something you did on on purpose. I think we’re stuck with a very, very stupid and a very, very dismal looking album, this is depressing.

I declare this the winning post in the thread.

 

[Tetsubo]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand Wizbro drops the digital ball... again.

I have such hope for the future...

 

[Darkwolf71]

I declare this the winning post in the thread.

I concur.

 

[JoelF]

Hey Mike, thanks for stopping in. Do you know what the status of the Gleemax Games are going to be? (Will we still be able to play Vegas Showdown, etc., somewhere?)

As a follow up to this question, what is the fate of the eagerly anticipated Uncivilized: The Goblin Game?

 

[Mouseferatu]

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.