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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 3818322" data-attributes="member: 518">Not surprising. Paper mags are getting to be a little too expensive I think for a majority of people to buy them regularly. (not just gamers, but in general)I know that in my area bookstore chains, Dungeon & Dragon basically disappeared in the last few years. I'd see them on occasion, but either the stores werent carrying them period, or were ordering so few copies that they sold out quickly and I never saw them. I went looking for the last issues for keepsakes, and never found either one.I stopped subscribing..oh...IDK 4 years ago, simply because I got out of gaming for awhile, and also cos I found so little useful in either one. I wanted to pick and choose issues, even though I wasn't actively using them, just to have an entertaining read.I suspect the sales trend of D&D products from WOTC is similar. It's steadily been dropping. Again my local chains D&D section has been getting moved to progressively smaller spaces. The Video Game and Computer game "cheat books" take up more space these days.I don't think it's a circumstance of poor quality from Paizo, but rather the downslope of 3.X sales. 2E was lucky in that towards the end they had a surge of cash and enthusiasm with the WOTC buyout. As well as the 25th anniversary and launch of 3E. The market is very different right now (for ALOT of businesse):The D20 glut and dropout, and we've been color hardcovered to death by WOTC, and while that may have been a grand idea 5 years ago when there was so much enthusiasm, I think its come around to bite them in the @$$ now. I don't think the people with enough expendable income can make up for the vast majority of gamers that make up WOTC's market (i.e. those who DON'T have that expendable income)I've rambled enough...I'm sad to have seen Dungeon & Dragon mags go...a fine institution it was for so many years  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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