At its core a myspace for gamers is a brilliant idea. And WotC has the market share to actually get enough people involved. The problem was execution.
The people involved were genuinely incompetent and as such the project was doomed from the get go. I am happy that WotC decided to kill the project rather than keeping it on life support.
I agree that at its core, Myspace is a good thing to have. However, in practice, it has become one of the five sites I avoid like the plague, the other 4 being Gaia, 4Chan, and three of the specific portions inside 4Chan (namely /b/).
Now that Gleemax is going the way of the dinosaurs, I'll be busy with CopyPasta for my classes and ideas. It is a shame really, I had great memories from before they started all of these changes, and I hate to see the place they were created on die off like this. But then again, Tzeentch has dictated that a change must be wrought, so I cannot oppose this descision they have made.
Really, these last few months have been like watching a grandparent in the hospital. They just kept getting worse with no one doing anything but abandoning it and complaining about how it was doing. I know I abandoned the site too, but I still do post there to help others out, and I do care about how it has turned out.
All I can say is this though; Its been...intresting. Without these forums, I wouldn't know anything about the games I play, and I wouldn't have allies here. Hell, I'd still be just a face in the crowd without the net as a whole, and the forums at WotC was just one of the places I've come to know very well over these past few years. Its sad to see it go, but at the same time we all have to hope this change can be for the better.
And that G0 is never put in charge of managing forums again.Tzeentch has spoken, and the strings of fate have shown us the path that Gleemax now walks. Grab a shovel, people, its time to burry the past.
