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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 3472464" data-attributes="member: 548">WARNING - You've probably read all this before about 23 times.  But not by me.  The general gist of it is that if the WotC press release was more like the statement at the start of this thread, I think people would be too busy drooling over the [AMAZING PRODUCT] to complain about the end of the magazines.  The rest is fancy nonesense...That Strategic Review blurb was excellent... it immediately announced the replacement product and explained it in great detail.  This would have worked perfectly well on the Internet as a press release today.The recent WotC press release, and the spin that followed it, was excreable.  The follow-up project is not even defined, and we don't even know if it's really a follow-up or if it was something they were planning to do anyway.  As far as I can tell, they saw Paizo doing too good a job on it, so they killed it to avoid being (winning) competition for their own product.  To use a mythological reference, it's like Saturn eating his young (note the comparision is meant to be more one of repulsiveness and stupidity than morality, so don't wave that ad absurdem stick at me).A WotC press release of any quality would have said something like, "DUNGEON and DRAGON may be gone soon, but let us take this opportunity to announce [AMAZING PRODUCT]!  This [AMAZING PRODUCT] allows you to [DO THIS AMAZING THING] and [ANOTHER AMAZING THING], all without getting out of your chair!  [AMAZING PRODUCT] will have these features:[Bullet list of 3-5 AMAZING FEATURES]Unfortunately, we only get a vague announcement that Something Amazing is coming up, with no idea of its timetable or if it will really be Dungeon or Dragon replacement.  Paizo succeeded in rolling out something that may or may not be Amazing, but at least we know it's Something.  WotC didn't even do that.</blockquote>

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