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<blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3959053" data-attributes="member: 4275">I guess. To me, the difference between &quot;hey, I'd like my stereo back that I let you rent from me&quot; and &quot;someone snatched my stereo!&quot; to be a little more than a nitpick. Snatched implies theft. &nbsp;Will you get to preview the entire magazine? I doubt that. My guess would be that they'll have free articles each month along with a table of contents or a &quot;this week in Dragon&quot; type column.Assuming that they will say &quot;hey, here's this thing, we won't tell you anything about it, sign up for a year to see what's inside&quot;, which is the impression I had from your earlier post, seems like it's giving the guys WAY too little credit.Chris Thomasson has worked on Dragon and Dungeon for a long time, Wizards has demonstrated that they do in fact know how to run an online service. Ah but that's not what you said. You said they promised the magazines would be BETTER. I remember them promising they'd be as good (they have been imo) and saying that they felt like an online distribution model was a better way to reach folks. Subscribing for 1 month is a subscription.Again, I don't know, but I'd be shocked if it didn't follow a model like this:1. Subscribe for one month, 9.99/month2. Subscribe for three months 8.00/month3. Subscribe for 12 months 5.00/monthSo basically, you're mad that it's not free. I guess I can see that.There's advantages to each method. Mongoose is hoping that offering free stuff will increase sales of their books. Since Wizards doesn't have any problem selling books, they are looking for new ways to monetize content and increase revenue.Both are legitimate approaches.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vigilance, post: 3959053, member: 4275"] I guess. To me, the difference between "hey, I'd like my stereo back that I let you rent from me" and "someone snatched my stereo!" to be a little more than a nitpick. Snatched implies theft. Will you get to preview the entire magazine? I doubt that. My guess would be that they'll have free articles each month along with a table of contents or a "this week in Dragon" type column. Assuming that they will say "hey, here's this thing, we won't tell you anything about it, sign up for a year to see what's inside", which is the impression I had from your earlier post, seems like it's giving the guys WAY too little credit. Chris Thomasson has worked on Dragon and Dungeon for a long time, Wizards has demonstrated that they do in fact know how to run an online service. Ah but that's not what you said. You said they promised the magazines would be BETTER. I remember them promising they'd be as good (they have been imo) and saying that they felt like an online distribution model was a better way to reach folks. Subscribing for 1 month is a subscription. Again, I don't know, but I'd be shocked if it didn't follow a model like this: 1. Subscribe for one month, 9.99/month 2. Subscribe for three months 8.00/month 3. Subscribe for 12 months 5.00/month So basically, you're mad that it's not free. I guess I can see that. There's advantages to each method. Mongoose is hoping that offering free stuff will increase sales of their books. Since Wizards doesn't have any problem selling books, they are looking for new ways to monetize content and increase revenue. Both are legitimate approaches. [/QUOTE]

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