My Experience of 4e Marketing Failing

[Nightchilde-2]

Forget about D&D turning into WoW, ENWorld is turning into the WoW boards.

LEEROY JENKINS!

 

[Grazzt]

Surely Heroic Fail? Or perhaps Paragon Fail?

Set it up as a skill challenge and they will most assuredly fail.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Where I first heard the term epic fail.

Thought it was amusing and thus, used it here.

The way some react, am I missing some cultural signifigance to this term?

 

[The Little Raven]

LEEROY JENKINS!

The Ashbringer...

 

[Glyfair]

Exactly. Not only is the clerk not paid enough, it is a generalist position and can't be expected to know a lot of about everything (maybe a little about everything and a lot about something).

I agree with this. I can't count the number of times I have seen people misled by asking an employee in a "generalist store" about a niche product.

As for RPGs, I remember when my local hobby store (not hobby game store..this was late 70s and it was carried by the "Michael's" type hobby/craft stores) recommend both "Tomb of Horrors" and an Runequest adventure to someone asking for some good adventures for them to start running D&D. Obviously TSR failed in their marketing?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The way some react, am I missing some cultural signifigance to this term?

It's popularly used among folks on the official WoW boards complaining about, well, just about anything.

Epic (purple) is the second-best quality of magic item in WoW, just behind Legendary (orange), which is the nearest WoW equivalent to D&D artifacts.

 

[JoeGKushner]

It's popularly used among folks on the official WoW boards complaining about, well, just about anything.

Epic (purple) is the second-best quality of magic item in WoW, just behind Legendary (orange), which is the nearest WoW equivalent to D&D artifacts.

Ah. Having never played WoW (Guild Craft a little), this is "news" to me.

 

[Spatula]

Where I first heard the term epic fail.

Thought it was amusing and thus, used it here.

The way some react, am I missing some cultural signifigance to this term?

Not really. It's your average internet phrase meme-thing.