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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 3138097" data-attributes="member: 17262">The reason I said $5 is my magazine price limit is for several reasons.  Primarily, it is because the content to advertisement ratio in most magazines is absurd.  The amount of readable material in most magazines has shrunk so much over the years that it is just not worth it.Magazines like Time, Newsweek, Nature, or Popular Science also tend to have a problem with time sensitivity.  The weekly magazines are better at being timely, but the monthly magazines have to be produced months in advance, and can sometimes be a bit dated in their material.  This was not a big deal when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, when you did not have the instant access to information that you have today.  Now, however, being up to date can make or break a periodical.Then there’s the fact that most gaming magazines are just pimping the latest thing published by the company who makes the magazine.  White Dwarf only really talks about the latest thing for sale from Games Workshop.  Dragon and Dungeon magazines usually only talk about the latest thing published by WotC (or Paizo).  I do not feel the need to buy the latest and “greatest” thing from these companies, so the magazines tend to carry very little I can find useful or informative.Finally, I have a limited budget for gaming.  If I save up and buy a game book, or adventure, or some miniatures, I can almost assuredly get a high cost-benefit ratio out of the product.  If I buy miniatures I am pretty much assured I will get things I want and will use.  The same can generally be said about game books (though not always at the 100% level of miniatures).  The magazines are really hit or miss.  I think the last time I bought a copy of either Dungeon or Dragon I found I could use approximately 1 to 2 column inches of material from the magazine.  At the current cover price the cost to benefit ratio is just too low.  It is not enough bang for too much buck.</blockquote>

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