Gleemax!
Yeah, it sounds stupid to me too. WotC thinks otherwise though. Yes the site looks pretty silly, is focused around a fictional alien named gleemax that… I don’t know, does some shit. And speaks to us:
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I know that kind of thing really makes me interested in a site and makes me want to find out more. All I know at this point is that Gleemax is fucking rad, dude!
So my real question, why does WotC hate us? Rumor is this site is why their magazine no longer exists. Lovely replacement.
More notes from ICv2:
“Our read on the core hobby industry is that it’s stable, but it’s aging,” WotC VP of Digital Games Randy Buehler told us. “We’re slowing down in terms of recruiting that next generation of hobby gamers. Today’s 15-year-olds have such a different experience than a 15-year-old did five years ago or 10 years ago, or when I was a 15-year-old. So today’s 15-year-old is online and doesn’t necessarily have any reason to leave his computer because there’s so much to do there.”
And this is their solution to that perceived problem?
WotC, if you want to know what your problems are, I’ll help you out.
1) You release way to many books these days and most of them aren’t up to any sort of quality level.
2) You have no idea what a roleplaying game is like. Yes, I love D20 and I love the 3.5 system. But do I love the way your books and system are laid out so as to discourage roleplaying? No.
3) You really have no idea what today’s kids are into. Let me just tell you, it’s not retarded sounding sites run by fakes aliens. If it were a real alien you might have something, but since it’s not. FAIL
Please, please do me a favor. Call me up. I’ll tell how to fix things, which books are good (Dungeon Master II) and why you should stop flooding the market with random stuff and diluting your brand.
What Would Matt Do: I’ll continue to make up house rules and help players with character creation so I’m not running pure hack and slash games when I play D&D 3.5. Also, lack of recent updates might be a good thing if all comes through. Watch this space for more info.