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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghendar" data-source="post: 3508712" data-attributes="member: 16804">I don't believe I ever used the words "hundreds of mags indicates WotC is wrong." My point was that WotC may in fact be misguided about comments made like the one by Rouse where he said "people tend to go online for this content." It certainly wouldn't be the first time a corporation made the wrong decision, but I guess time will tell whether this decision is right or wrong.You can look at them sure I just don't know what useful data that will yield. The only longterm gaming mag I know of that might even be comparable to Dragon in terms of longevity, reader base, and quality might be White Dwarf, not some fly by night mag that limped along for 13 issues and then died.I agree.There is a lot of say one thing and do another going on. The one thing that irritates me is those completionists who feel the need to buy everything WotC releases regardless because, well, they are completionists. I'm not citicizing those folks (I was one of them a couple years ago until I realized that I had a shelf full of books that never got used.) but to blindly buy everything send the wrong message to the company. It sends the message that they can release any old thing and people will still buy it. But I guess that's a discussion for another thread.Then how do you explain how Dragon has remained in print (minus the six month blip when WotC took over) for 30 some odd years? Or that Dungeon has also remained in print since 1987?No, this isn't about WotC not believing in paper mags, it's all about mazimizing profit and the e-model is the way to do that.</blockquote>

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