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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2089865" data-attributes="member: 20741">I think that was a little uncalled for.  I dropped buying Dragon on any sort of regular basis at all when it swtiched to exclusively 2E as that was a game I simply didn't play and had no interest in.Seeing as about 40% of 1st edition players were similarly disposed, I was not alone in that preference.But the point is, I came back to D&D with 3E and tried to come back to Dragon as well.  I have several recent copies here. 326 through 328 would be the latest ones.  I have a dozen others and I pick it up and browse on the stand monthly to see if there is some reason to buy it - but it's just not doing it for me.From a wide range of posters on this thread, I would not appear to be alone in that view.The suggestion I was complaining about Dragon solely from a back-in-the-day perspective is wholly inaccurate.  I was, however, analyzing the change in the business and the pervasiveness of crunch in the present marketplace on a comparitive basis to the early 80's to illustrate a point.Erik agreed with that assessment, but you seem to think it was a poor or invalid analysis?  Interesting. In any event, Erik has given us his answer.  As other posters have noted here - there is a reasonable likelihood that no matter what changes Dragon makes it is not ever going to be again something which will necessarily be a periodical aimed at *me* and people like *me*.From the response given in this thread, there are more than a few people similarly situated on ENWorld.It seems to me that if you are going to make changes to a periodical, you do so for one of two principle business reasons:1 - you are trying to attract new regular readers to your publication; or,2 - you are trying to persuade existing readers to continue purchasing it as they might otherwise stop doing so (reduce "churn").There really are no other business reasons for making changes in a product of this kind.Seeing as part of the reason one makes changes it to persuade people who don't regularly buy the product to do so... then yes, I would think that as a matter of commercial sense, you at least listen to what such a person might have to say.To do otherwise is to confuse me with somebody whose money Paizo already has (that would be *you*).To listen only to current readers generally means you will a harder time finding new ones.  Preaching to the choir is not the best way to expand your congregation. If the logic of that simple proposition escapes you, I fear there is little I can say which will be of any greater assistance.</blockquote>

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