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<blockquote data-quote="Jason Kain" data-source="post: 3958518" data-attributes="member: 46949"><p>As far as I'm concerned, Dragon is not currently in production. Don't overreact, I have logical reasoning behind this.</p><p></p><p>When Dragon was in print, people bought it for the contents. Be it stories, gazetteers, prestige classes, whatever. In addition, we got previews of upcoming products. We weren't paying for the previews. It's like a theater, we pay to see the movie, we get to see trailers as a bonus to entice us to see those movies.</p><p></p><p>Now Dragon is online. Cool beans. It's free. Cooler beans. We enjoy Dragon, relatively similar to the way it was. It was a magazine(e-zine) dedicated to adding to our current games. In the same way as before, we get previews and advertisements for upcoming products, to entice us to purchase them when they're available. The only catch is they're articles dedicated to fourth edition.</p><p></p><p>The kick comes with this article, which says to me "We're not going to support you current games anymore. We need you to focus on our upcoming products." All fine in itself, but it's not Dragon anymore. Advertising it as Dragon is incorrect, as it's not filling it's original intent. I can put toothpaste in a ketchup bottle, but that doesn't make it ketchup. It's toothpaste with a different wrapper.</p><p></p><p>To me, they can't even try to get sympathy with their cries of "Free content at our expense!" with Dragon anymore. If they drop support for 3rd, it's like going to the theater to see a movie, being told you don't have to pay, and then sitting in a chair for two hours watching trailers. Sure, you got to watch free trailers, but you wanted a movie. Dropping support for current games changes Dragon into something else. It's not the same as it was, and it's not the same as it's going to be.</p><p></p><p>So, for those of you who want to cope with this but are having trouble, just view Dragon as in hibernation until 4th. Content under the Dragon banner will be a preview of the upcoming edition. Including the relaunch of Dragon as the 4th Edition e-zine. Critique it as you would a movie trailer.</p><p></p><p>On a completely separate note, everytime someone writes E-Dragon, for some reason I miss the D and end up reading it as Eragon. It's really starting to mess with me at this point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jason Kain, post: 3958518, member: 46949"] As far as I'm concerned, Dragon is not currently in production. Don't overreact, I have logical reasoning behind this. When Dragon was in print, people bought it for the contents. Be it stories, gazetteers, prestige classes, whatever. In addition, we got previews of upcoming products. We weren't paying for the previews. It's like a theater, we pay to see the movie, we get to see trailers as a bonus to entice us to see those movies. Now Dragon is online. Cool beans. It's free. Cooler beans. We enjoy Dragon, relatively similar to the way it was. It was a magazine(e-zine) dedicated to adding to our current games. In the same way as before, we get previews and advertisements for upcoming products, to entice us to purchase them when they're available. The only catch is they're articles dedicated to fourth edition. The kick comes with this article, which says to me "We're not going to support you current games anymore. We need you to focus on our upcoming products." All fine in itself, but it's not Dragon anymore. Advertising it as Dragon is incorrect, as it's not filling it's original intent. I can put toothpaste in a ketchup bottle, but that doesn't make it ketchup. It's toothpaste with a different wrapper. To me, they can't even try to get sympathy with their cries of "Free content at our expense!" with Dragon anymore. If they drop support for 3rd, it's like going to the theater to see a movie, being told you don't have to pay, and then sitting in a chair for two hours watching trailers. Sure, you got to watch free trailers, but you wanted a movie. Dropping support for current games changes Dragon into something else. It's not the same as it was, and it's not the same as it's going to be. So, for those of you who want to cope with this but are having trouble, just view Dragon as in hibernation until 4th. Content under the Dragon banner will be a preview of the upcoming edition. Including the relaunch of Dragon as the 4th Edition e-zine. Critique it as you would a movie trailer. On a completely separate note, everytime someone writes E-Dragon, for some reason I miss the D and end up reading it as Eragon. It's really starting to mess with me at this point. [/QUOTE]
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