D&D General Dragon+ Content Going Away -- Whoops, It's Gone!

WotC's online ezine, Dragon+, ended a few months ago. Until now the existing issues were still accessible, but as of today, November 15th, WotC announced that "Dragon+ will be removed from app stores on or around November 15th, and dragonmag.com will be redirected and its content will no longer be available".

If you wanted to save any of the content, do it quick, because it goes away today!

[Edit -- and the content is now gone].

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Earlier this year we announced that the current issue of Dragon+ will be its last. Dragon+ will be removed from app stores on or around November 15th, and dragonmag.com will be redirected and its content will no longer be available.

 

[wingsandsword]

Well that kinda sucks. There was some interesting stuff there. I wonder why they did that?

Probably something contractual.

I remember when WotC had the rights to do Star Wars and Wheel of Time RPG's. . .their material/webpages for those just disappeared into the ether with almost no notice, as soon as the licenses expired and with little-to-no fanfare.

From 2008 to 2010, there was a casual game on Facebook called "D&D Tiny Adventures" that let you play simple solo adventures with a character you'd level up and develop over time. . .that disappeared almost instantly, as in they put up an announcement it was ending and had it gone later the same day. It turned out that the game was in violation of the licensing agreements WotC had for licensing out D&D video game rights, so as soon as the lawyers noticed it had to come down immediately.

When WotC makes something vanish off the web that fast, it's a legal thing.

 

[Hussar]

Probably something contractual.

I remember when WotC had the rights to do Star Wars and Wheel of Time RPG's. . .their material/webpages for those just disappeared into the ether with almost no notice, as soon as the licenses expired and with little-to-no fanfare.

From 2008 to 2010, there was a casual game on Facebook called "D&D Tiny Adventures" that let you play simple solo adventures with a character you'd level up and develop over time. . .that disappeared almost instantly, as in they put up an announcement it was ending and had it gone later the same day. It turned out that the game was in violation of the licensing agreements WotC had for licensing out D&D video game rights, so as soon as the lawyers noticed it had to come down immediately.

When WotC makes something vanish off the web that fast, it's a legal thing.

That's certainly plausible.

 

[FoolishFrost]

I’m not much for rpg piracy, as I like to see my favored creators eat, but this is definitely what causes people to bulk archive stuff.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

All the content on my iPad app just vanished as well

how does that happen? even downloaded they can recall?

 

[cbwjm]

I still wish that they'd provided the article about the cat setting as a PDF that could have been downloaded. It was one of the only articles that made Dragon+ worth reading.

 

[Weiley31]

I still say one of the biggest L's on Wizard's part was pretty much removing all of the fantastic 3.0/3.5 stuff they used to have on their website many moons ago. Lot of it was fantastic with lore, ideas, and what not.

Granted, there's still some work arounds to find most of it or what not, but still.

 

[Ibrandul]

Next up: $999 gets you four random issues of Dragon+

 

[darjr]

I’ve got the ones I’ve downloaded still. No airplane mode needed.

Coarse the app is going to break one of these days.

 

[billd91]

Well that kinda sucks. There was some interesting stuff there. I wonder why they did that?

Probably merging with Discovery+/HBO Max?

 

[Vincent55]

I really feel the whole company and D&D, in general, have lost their way much as many things have.