Olaf the Stout
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Worse yet, I'm sure the cost to restart physical production would be tremendous- it's prolly out of the question. And even if it weren't, I wouldn't trust the content to be worth the cover price, after the continuous, mutli-year DDI disaster. I would have to page through each issue before I picked it up.
I do not think that we will ever see a physical print version of Dragon or Dragon magazines ever again. From what Paizo have said in the past, getting a new print mag up and running is very expensive and not overly profitable. Yes, Dragon and Dungeon would have some advantages compared to a completely new magazine in terms of advertisers and subscribers, but not enough for it to be worth WotC's effort.
I am also left wondering why this matters so much to folks who didn't switch to 4e. I mean, in a hypothetical world with paper Dragon/Dungeon, these would still have been 4e magazines - not 3.x or earlier. There's no hypothetical world in which Dragon/Dungeon would have reasonably kept pushing out 3.x content. Would you really have kept your subscriptions? As far as I can tell, you're down a few magazines either way.
My group currently plays 3.5E but I think I would have still bought 4E copies of Dungeon magazine. Even if I couldn't directly use the material, the ideas for the adventures (or possible conversions) would still be worth it for me.
As for a 4E Dragon mag, yes it would be a lot less useful. However, I quite liked a lot of the more fluffy articles, like 'The Play's The Thing' and other advice type articles or the 'Ecology of the XXXX'. These were often quite edition-neutral and would have still been of use to me.
So I wouldn't have considered them to be a 'loss' for me if they were still around, but putting out only 4E material.
Olaf the Stout