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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3473084" data-attributes="member: 22424">I very much doubt it. I'm pretty sure it happened now because the license was up for renewal now.WotC didn't consciously 'take one for the team' because corporations don't do that. And, bluntly, that's the way it should be - their job is to maximise shareholder value, not to be nice to the competition.(Honestly, place yourself in the boots of a Hasbro shareholder who doesn't care about D&D, Dragon, or any of this. You learn that one of Hasbro's divisions has gone out of their way to help their competition, potentially causing you to lose money. Would you not be angry at this development?)Paizo are obliged to refund the subscriptions of anyone who doesn't transfer to Pathfinder (or take one of their other options). In order to persuade people to switch, they're offering Pathfinder subs/Dragon back-issues/store credit at very preferential terms. Even so, I bet they're going to have to refund a significant chunk of those 13,000 Dragon subs.Basically, this is huge for Paizo however you slice it.However, I think there probably is something in this being cast as the end of the magazines, rather than them going online, and it probably is to do with them not wanting to carry subscriptions over. However, my guess would be that it's just much easier to account for if they just cut the ties and have Paizo issue refunds to all, rather than have the subscriptions transfer, and then have to offer all customers the option of a refund (since an e-zine is useless if you don't have internet access).</blockquote>

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