The Failure of Gleemax

[Davewolf]

Is Gleemax still the neon bright colouring they started with (that made my eyes water and gave me a headache)?
If the colour's muted I might go back and observe the oncoming trainwreck...

 

[havard]

Mystara fans who ever went back to WotC's boards, anyway.

Not only. Several people who never posted at WotC have begun posting at the Piazza. However, the WotC Mystara board was the most active discussion forum for Mystara fans over the last few years.

The mailing list has also had a surge of activity this past week.

I think anyone trying to make sure the OOP settings became so obscure that they were sure to die off would definitely do well to steer clear of the largest RPG fan site around.

I wouldn't mind having a presence here, but my main concern is keeping the existing community alive. If ENWorld had a forum dedicated to each of the TSR settings things would have been different.

Havard

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wouldn't mind having a presence here, but my main concern is keeping the existing community alive. If ENWorld had a forum dedicated to each of the TSR settings things would have been different.

Yeah, and as I said previously, the last time WotC shut down a bunch of boards, those folks asked ENWorld for boards and they were made immediately.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this is going the same way the Mystara3E conversion project went. That ended up being a great tool for keeping the setting alive ...

 

[Mistwell]

Gleemax hasn't launched yet, so it's too early to judge it.

The only response you ever really need is the image at the top of the page, the red part:

 

[Dire Bare]

My bolding. WotC has obviously worked with them before - probably under a different name since nobody had heard of Radiant Machine before Gleemax. Wouldn't be at all surprised if they WERE Fluid with new hats on, actually.

Yeah, except that they're not. But that paranoid conspiracy theory will live on in the intertubes, I'm sure.

You do realize that WotC has other brands than D&D? And that some of those brands have web and/or computer products associated with them? Perhaps the people behind Radiant Machine have worked with WotC on products other than D&D? Crazy, I know.

 

[havard]

Yeah, and as I said previously, the last time WotC shut down a bunch of boards, those folks asked ENWorld for boards and they were made immediately.

This could still become an option I suppose. I, personally, am not going to make this request at this time, however. If someone did, I would obviously participate there as well as at the PIAZZA.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this is going the same way the Mystara3E conversion project went. That ended up being a great tool for keeping the setting alive ...

Whoah, you are embodiment of cheeriness, aren't you?
Not all projects go on forever. Was it a success? Maybe not. Did Mystara 3E conversions stop there? No, they just moved elsewhere.

Thanks for your support.

Havard

 

[Twowolves]

There can be only one response.
-blarg

That was AWESOME!

"Babies everywhere! YEAH!!"

 

[Delta]

"I just shattered my hand. YEAAHH!!"

 

[Meghan]

I gave 7 years to the wizards boards and gleemax came in, pushed me down, kicked sand in my eyes and then brought in a pack if dingos to eat my baby.

When the free stuff pushes me away, I'm not really going to be interested in it when it goes pay.

 

[DarkAngel1979]

Gleemax hasn't launched yet, so it's too early to judge it.

I joined Gleemax right at last year's GenCon, and it was pretty much in the current state. (Well okay, they just finally released a couple of boardgames on the site. Gleemax-the-social-portal itself is pretty much the same as always.) This year's GenCon is a few weeks away. Make of that what you will...

And I was super excited by the Goblins Game, they started an open beta, and now... no news for months.

Within that timeframe, our company (not well known outside the IT industry, and I'm keeping it Anon) released one full version of our software, is poised on releasing another, AND we released a version of our Unix port and a handful of Service Packs to fix customers' issues. Now, obviously our stuff is a decade old and so a huge bunch of the work is already done, but would it have killed them to wait until they had a shot of releasing within a year's timeframe before turning on the hype machine? It's really bad marketing. A lot of people who might have been interested went, said meh, then promptly forgot about it, and now not only will the marketing dollars have to flow a second time to reach them, but they might actually go "Hey I remember this, it sucked. Why should I bother?", which means that they're actually going to have to work *harder* the second time to reach these people than if they just had never opened their claptrap about the project before it was ready.