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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3958812" data-attributes="member: 48965">Come on now.  WotC is a corporation...free Dragon and Dungeon are not a "gift to the gaming community".  They were suppose to be a way to sell the gaming community on the new e-zines (which WotC had no experience in doing yet cancelled the print magazines for) and assuage the irritation alot of people felt over them snatching the print magazines up.  You do realize that they are going with a subscription model, right?  Which means in order to sample the e-zines once they go into pay mode, one will have to make a considerable commitment to them.  I'm not getting roped into 3 months, 6 months or a year of something I haven't been impressed with.It was WotC who hyped themselves up into this corner, not the fans.  We were told it would be bettter than what had come before and they would show us why over the free period.  Now looking at WotC as a company (because they are not my friend, buddy, whatever)  it's their fault if they bit off more than they can chew.  Paizo could have easily held the magazine license until they finished 4e,  WotC made the choice that they were ready for this and have no one to blame but themselves if they were not.  In this situation they held all the cards and chose how to play them.  If anything this was WotC chance to show us how wonderful these e-zines would be compared to the print.  So far, IMHO, Dungeon has remained basically on par with it's predecessor (though now I have to waste ink and paper in printing it up and it doesn't look as good)...while Dragon has been a dissapointment.  So for me they have in no way shown why I would want to commit to these e-zines or even in what way they are better than the print mags.  At least not enough for me to commit to a subscription.  See it would be a different story if, like the print mags I could browse through an issue and make a decision to buy that particular one or not...but that's not feasible with this model.  I mean sheesh, Mongooose as a company is magnitudes smaller than WotC yet they put out a high quality e-zine for their games every month...and it's free.</blockquote>

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