Why 2 Magazines?

[Zaukrie]

Thank goodness there are two. I can't imagine how the article count would drop if it was one magazine. It's bad enough now.

 

[Fifth Element]

Nerdrage does not bow to logic. Much ire would be raised by eliminating one of the magazines. Enough people currently claim that WotC "killed" Dragon and Dungeon. Imagine the response if this legacy was not continued.

 

[Scribble]

Thank goodness there are two. I can't imagine how the article count would drop if it was one magazine. It's bad enough now.

Eh maybe...

Just seems like stuff is arbitrarily devoted to one section or the other at times.

Seems like it would make more sense to just have a whole digital magazine section, and then broken down into the various parts and categories.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Eh maybe...

Just seems like stuff is arbitrarily devoted to one section or the other at times.

Seems like it would make more sense to just have a whole digital magazine section, and then broken down into the various parts and categories.

Wouldn't that increase the cost of each individual magazine? That might be bad for DMs who are only interested in adventures or DM stuff, and the players would have to spend money on adventures they're not supposed to look at.

 

[Scribble]

Wouldn't that increase the cost of each individual magazine? That might be bad for DMs who are only interested in adventures or DM stuff, and the players would have to spend money on adventures they're not supposed to look at.

Are they selling them individualy now? As far as I know the only way you can get them is subscribing to the DDI as a whole... which gives you both.

 

[Morrus]

I totaly agree. With the digital format, and it all being presented through a unified "D&D Insider" front, the DRAGON and DUNGEON brand names are pointless. There's just one online magazine, and it's called "D&D Insider".

I assume that's the aim - to trade the brand equity of DRAGON and DUNGEON for D&D INSIDER and phase the former two out.

If I were them I'd have just made D&D Insider the new online magazine and continued to earn licensing fees for the DRAGON and UDNGEON brand names. But perhaps WotC's market research indicated that such a strategy would dilute the D&D INSIDER sales too much. Who knows?

Perhaps the two names are just being continued to avoid mass intranet nerd rage. They certainly serve no other purpose.

 

[Scribble]

I guess if they ever do decide to sell the individual pdfs then it would make sense to keep them seperate.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I totaly agree. With the digital format, and it all being presented through a unified "D&D Insider" front, the DRAGON and DUNGEON brand names are pointless. There's just one online magazine, and it's called "D&D Insider".

I assume that's the aim - to trade the brand equity of DRAGON and DUNGEON for D&D INSIDER and phase the former two out.

If I were them I'd have just made D&D Insider the new online magazine and continued to earn licensing fees for the DRAGON and UDNGEON brand names. But perhaps WotC's market research indicated that such a strategy would dilute the D&D INSIDER sales too much. Who knows?

Perhaps the two names are just being continued to avoid mass intranet nerd rage. They certainly serve no other purpose.

Pretty much my thought as well. The only reason I see them needing to keep the names is to prevent even more bad PR.

 

[rounser]

Perhaps the two names are just being continued to avoid mass intranet nerd rage. They certainly serve no other purpose.

Who would care? Personally I think it would be greeted with a resounding "meh", because Dragon and Dungeon have been grieved for already. Maybe a poll is in order.

 

[Scribble]

Who would care? Personally I think it would be greeted with a resounding "meh", because Dragon and Dungeon have been grieved for already. Maybe a poll is in order.

Please... no more polls...