GAMING FRONTIERS: A $20 magazine! Are they nuts?

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

I saw Gaming Frontiers #2 at my game store last Friday and thumbed through it. Sure, it has full color and excellent production values, as well as useful material and info on d20 games... It's an excellent magazine, I'm not disputing that. But it is a magazine with a $20 price tag!!! I barely scrape up enough useful material from Dragon or Dungeon each issue to justify their $6 price tags... I'm sure not gonna shell out $20 for a magazine, even if it is d20 related. United Playtest, the publishers, are completely out of touch with the gaming and magazine buying public in my opinion. Cut the page count, cut the full color, and give us a $6 magazine (preferably with more crunchy bits) and maybe more people will buy it. I just don't see this publication thriving, let alone surviving, in its current $20 format. I mean, which would you rather have? A $20 magazine or a $20 rule book or supplement? Or two $10 adventures? Or five to six $3-$4 mini-modules? I know I go for the "crunch" every time, not a hodge podge of information--most of which I will never be able to use in my games, even if I enjoy reading it or find it interesting. I have ENWorld to fill me in on upcoming products and give me reviews and links to interviews, sites, etc. I have Dragon and Dungeon to give me crunchy articles and adventures for my games. So why do I need to shell out $20 for a single issue of Gaming Frontiers? The answer is, I don't--and I won't--not at that price or anything near it. Just my two cents.

 

[Darklance]

What is the Subscription rate BTW?

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

Probably $100 for six issues, LOL. No clue, actually.

 

[BadMojo]

I wholeheartedly concur, Kaptain. I noticed the Gaming Frontiers ad in a recent Dragon magazine. It looked interesting, so I checked out their website. I was actually hooked until I saw how much this thing costs.

There is no way I could justify purchasing a $20 periodical every single month.

So...yes, I think they ARE nuts.

 

[EOL]

It would be interesting to see how many people are willing to pay $20 a month. I wouldn't guess it would be very many, which means that Gaming Frontiers isn't going to be around much longer.

I think any time you're going to compete against the established product it's generally a good idea to be less expensive.

 

[Henry@home]

It would be interesting to see how many people are willing to pay $20 a month. I wouldn't guess it would be very many, which means that Gaming Frontiers isn't going to be around much longer.

I think any time you're going to compete against the established product it's generally a good idea to be less expensive.

What the **** do they offer for $20 a month?!?!?!

How many pages? What kind of articles?

 

[durath]

For $20 they better deliver it to my house with a large pizza and a 6 pack of mountain dew.

 

[EricNoah]

It's not a monthly thing, it's quarterly; and they insist it's not a magazine.

 

[R.X.DIEM]

Whoa !

Yeow, that's beyond steap. But it reminds me of the discusion in a resent posting about the future of gaming or D20 gaming. Something like that. $20.00, I won't buy it. Heck, most of MONGOOSE's books run about 20 bucks.( even less at Amazon). How many pages did this rag have?

 

[EOL]

It's not a monthly thing, it's quarterly; and they insist it's not a magazine.

Okay so it's not a magazine, splat books are black and white and cost $20, so using this new standard how does it compare to a splat book.