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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 3244840" data-attributes="member: 53">While I certainly can't speak to the internal politics of the time, I do remember the discussions between the last Dragon Annual (the d20 Special) and the announcement of the discontinuation. There were a lot of complaints about the d20 Special (a lot focusing on reused material from 3rd parties).  The publisher (Johnny someone?) said it sold very well on the stands, and seemed to dismiss the complaints.  Other comments from him that, IIRC, touched on both on some people's comments about the d20 Annual and the cancellation gave a strong "you didn't like this, then we'll take out Annual and go home" vibe to them.  That may not have been accurate, or intended, but that's how it came across and I'm not the only one that noticed it.My own failure to renew my subscriptions came after a similiar issue.  They announced online that they were discontinuing the subscriber exclusive content about the same time my subscription was up for renewal.  However, for a couple of months after the annoucement. their subscription notices were touting that as a reason to subscribe.  If you push something as a reason to subscribe, you should follow through until those who subscribed because of that subscriptions would have lapsed.  Otherwise it's very close to "bait and switch" (buy this magazine because their is exclusive subscriber content.  Oops, we don't have that).Whether it was a bad thing to begin with wasn't the issue.  The issue was that they were promising even after they had cancelled it.Note that I've since renewed my subscriptions, even if I have quibbles with the some of the editorial decisions (for example, the Adventure Paths dominate Dungeon magazine too much).</blockquote>

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