Do You Subscribe to Magazine(s) &/or Pay Website(s)?

[hong]

If you don't subscribe to online sites you will.
Or you'll wind up hanging out with people in rural america and polishing your guns by candle light.

I polished my gun by candlelight last night.

Well, no, I had a lamp. A metaphorical candle, if you know what I mean.

 

[wingsandsword]

If you don't subscribe to online sites you will.
Or you'll wind up hanging out with people in rural america and polishing your guns by candle light.

I own guns, I like candlelight, I grew up in a rural area but live in a city now. What is so wrong with polishing guns by candlelight? I've done it before, I probably will again.

I don't care if it's a "micro payment" system, I'd sooner quit buying new gaming material than buy .pdf's or other online materials. I've got multiple bookcases filled with AD&D/D&D/d20, WoD, and myriad other RPG's, not to mention a big collection of old Dragon Magazines that it looks like will be finished soon. I could game for decades and not exhaust my supply of materials, I could raise my children to be gamers and they'd have gaming materials for a lifetime. I've experimented with free .pdf downloads and found them awkward and memory-hogging and cludging to read and outrageously expensive to print out, especially compared to just buying a physical gaming book.

Why should I pay 5 cents for a file of yet another prestige class or some spells (especially when they used to put that sort of stuff up for free, reminds me of the line from the Tom Petty song "The Last DJ" about "How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free"), then have to pay several more cents for the ink to print it, and then the time to bind it and put it on the shelf with everything else, especially realizing how hard it. The more I think about it, the more I realize how little the Digital Initiative interests me.

I find that a computer is awkward and cumbersome for browsing reading material, printing what I have on a computer is awkward and painfully expensive with the costs of ink.

I paid for a Community Supporter account here, but that was because I like ENWorld, and I did it not for any premium gaming material (I have always refused to use the euphemism "content" to mean material) but because I know it is funded by the support of fans and I bought my CS account years ago when it looked like ENWorld was in dire straits and I didn't want it to go away.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

When WW3 comes, I will be running a 3Ed D&D game for the amusement of the offspring of our Mutant Cockroach overlords with my issues of Dragon & Dungeon intact...

Take THAT, Digital Initiative!

 

[Shadeydm]

I suscribe to Consumer Reports and pay extra for their online content, too bad this isn't an option with WotC.

 

[Baby Samurai]

I don't do either.

A Dragon magazine subscription can be hard to reach you when you're backpacking around Nepal for 5 months, and I don't like credit cards, so if we end up having to pay to check out the WotC site/boards, I will definitely be bummed.

 

[TheYeti1775]

If you don't subscribe to online sites you will.
Or you'll wind up hanging out with people in rural america and polishing your guns by candle light.

Nothing wrong with that.
Its very calming.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I find that a computer is awkward and cumbersome for browsing reading material, printing what I have on a computer is awkward and painfully expensive with the costs of ink.

I agree I really prefer to read from print. Just recently I got a e-book reader that uses that new E-Paper display tech. And I have to say I'm really loving it. I can throw a couple hundred novels into an SD card and carry them all with me in one little package about the size of a single thin softcover book. And the E-Paper display really does read like paper as well as having very good resolution.

Regarding subscriptions.
I have subscriptions to print magazines.
I have subscriptions to Pay Websites. I only have the subscription to the pay website because it allows me to download the content onto my own HD and the files have no DRM/copy-protection/watermarking attached. If any of those three features were present I wouldn't pay a dime.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

neither.

 

[Enforcer]

Both magazines (Macworld, Wine Spectator) and pay websites (Wine Spectator again, for the online review database) for me.

 

[amethal]

I used to subscrive to Dungeon and Dragon, but due to shipping issues I didn't renew. Now I pick them up from my FLGS each month.

I have taken out the rolling subscription to Pathfinder. I also subscribe to Interzone.

I don't subscribe to any pay websites / ezines. I did subscribe to d20 Weekly, until it folded.