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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 3569809" data-attributes="member: 4892">I know you didn't ask me, but I've had my problems with them. They haven't been as friendly as everyone makes them out to be towards their long-term subscribers.First, I was apprehensive when the Paizo team took over. New people in charge tend to make changes. I asked Erik Mona face-to-face at the first GenCon Paizo was in control of the magazines if any changes were going to be made to Dungeon. I made it very clear that I was taking his word that there would be no significant changes to the magazine when I signed up for another 3-year subscription. Of course, Polyhedron was soon added to the magazine, definitely a significant change in my eyes. Erik's only defense was to offer me a refund, but that left me with the very difficult decision to either continue paying for content I didn't want (Polyhedron) or lose the content I did. I begrudgingly stuck with them.Second, there was the fuzzy math of the switch from semi-monthly to monthly. They were trying to pull a fast one on a math major. "Now in two months you'll get 200 pages (2 100-page magazines) of content instead of 150!" But the conversion of my subscription was in number of issues, not length of subscription. So my 3-year subscription became an 18-month subscription. The content I was paying for went down 33% and the length of my subscription got cut in half. Yet they insisted we subscribers were getting MORE content. After enough complaints they threw us a small bone and added one or two issues. I believe I had 28 issues remaining and they added 2. The 28 issues before the change would have been 4,200 pages of content, after conversion I got 3,000. Explain again Paizo how I got more content?Third, the transition: I am not a fan of the APs. We played SCAP almost to the end. We played AoWAP to the end. But we lost interest quickly in the STAP. It's just not what our group was looking for. I do think the Gamemastery modules look good, but Paizo has decided not to support non-AP fans. Look at the great deal you get if Pathfinder is for you. I asked if they would extend the same deal to fans of the non-AP adventures. I was even ready to sign up for a month-to-month subscription to the Gamemastery modules. But they showed me that they only care enough for the AP fans and will only offer a good deal to them with Pathfinder.That's their third strike with me. They no longer offer what I'm looking for and have not provided the customer service I would expect for such a loyal subscriber (I was a subscriber of Dungeon for the entirety of Paizo's run). So I'm done with them. I'm taking my cash and crossing my fingers (but not holding my breath) that WoTC's DI will somehow provide what I'm looking for.</blockquote>

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