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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 822434" data-attributes="member: 2572">I would have been willing to pay 50% more to have my old Dungeon survive instead I am forced to pay 100% more for content I don't want. At that price I am paying about the same price per page of adventure that I can get with dedicated modules. I did the price break down in a previous Dungeon thread. I made the determination that it was not worth my money anymore and stopped buying it.I remember when Poly was first added to Dungeon and we were told. Don't worry Poly will be a free addition added to the 100+ pages of Dungeon. After 1 year we were then told that Dungeon was going monthly and it would be wonderful and we would have the same amount of content but that now it would be monthly and cost less. Yes it does cost less but now we get only 1/2 what we were getting before for about the same same price effectively doubling the cost of Dungeon. So what has realy happened here is that despite claimes that Poly was a free addition what they were realy doing is preparing to force the subscribers of each magazine to subscribe to the other as well. If you look at the page count we still have the same amout of content as before on a bi-monthly basis but we are now forced to pay for Poly. We have been informed that Dungeon and Poly had about equal subscribers with a 50% overlap. So rather than raising the price for Dungeon to cover the costs it was deamed easier to force the 50% of Dungeon subscribers that didn't get Poly to pay for a subscription to it and vice versa so that the net subscription rates of each magazine went up 50% thereby boosting add rates and allowing the magazine to be profitable. Personally I find the way they went about it underhanded and in bad faith. As I said I would have been willing to pay more for Dungeon to survive if they had been honest about it and let us know how bad of shape they were in and what price they would need to charge to be proffitable. If it truely is double what we were paying before I would be shocked since non-advertising based adventures are released for that price per page.I hope they don't fold and that thier choice works out for them and the majority of thier customers, but I am no longer a happy customer and as they have always said if you don't like what were doing you don't have to purchase our product.</blockquote>

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