Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="The Grumpy Celt" data-source="post: 4402138" data-attributes="member: 1019">Better Than 10 Super bowlsReading 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?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Grumpy Celt, post: 4402138, member: 1019"] [b]Better Than 10 Super bowls[/b] 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? [/QUOTE]

Verification