Dungeons & Dragons Collecting Forums      FAQ   Register  Log in to check your private messages   Log in               Here's what Dragon and Dungeon gave their lives for Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 View next topic View previous topic      The Acaeum Forum Index » Collecting General Author Message FormCritic Valuation Board Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Last Visit: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 3999 Location: Washington State Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:10 am What is more newsworthy and puzzling than the early demise of Gleemax is.... Why did WOTC personnel think Gleemax was going to be anything but a horrid failure in the first place? The idea was too incredibly stupid to begin with.   Mind boggling in the Zen-like purity of its incredibly obvious failure-o-city. So pie-in-the-face a loser idea as to make New Coke look like the Beattles. Gleemax was so painfully, awfully, dreadfully, beyond any hope of success that one wonders about the overall sanity in Renton. There just aren't enough scornful words to use to describe how obviously bad the whole idea was.   gyg Valuation Board Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Last Visit: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 1291 Location: UK Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:34 am come on Mark, tell us what you really think Badmike Long-Winded Collector Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Last Visit: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 4542 Location: DFW TX Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:11 am     FormCritic wrote: What is more newsworthy and puzzling than the early demise of Gleemax is.... Why did WOTC personnel think Gleemax was going to be anything but a horrid failure in the first place? The idea was too incredibly stupid to begin with.   Mind boggling in the Zen-like purity of its incredibly obvious failure-o-city. So pie-in-the-face a loser idea as to make New Coke look like the Beattles. Gleemax was so painfully, awfully, dreadfully, beyond any hope of success that one wonders about the overall sanity in Renton. There just aren't enough scornful words to use to describe how obviously bad the whole idea was.   When we attended Gencon last year and Gleemax was announced, it was amazing how little buzz there was and how no one cared.  I remember the day it was announced, I had to find out later on this forum because despite spending all day at the Con nothing had been mentioned. Truly one of the more bone-headed moves of recent gaming history. Mike B. improvstone Valuation Board Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Last Visit: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 976 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:40 am So I clicked on the links (under the games button) on the gleemax page to go to D&D Insider and Magic Online and got .....     Quote: Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126' Include file not found /default.asp, line 5 The include file 'global/utils_vbinserts.asp' was not found. No wonder its not working for them ...   Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First       The Acaeum Forum Index » Collecting General Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6   Jump to: Select a forum The Acaeum Forums----------------Collecting GeneralCollecting General - Non TSRCollecting AppraisalClassifiedsThe Acaeum Distributed Computing Project Subwebs----------------Judges GuildPlanescape  View next topic View previous topic Login or register to post new topics Login or register to reply to topics Login or register to edit your posts Login or register to delete your posts Login or register to vote in polls All times are GMT - 4 Hours