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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3497652" data-attributes="member: 9254">He was actually pointing you to Pyramid, whose online catalog includes unlimited back issues.&nbsp; Without the ability to print the products or put them on a non-online device (aka a gaming laptop) they aren't useful.&nbsp; Now I could cheat and use something like <a href="http://www.cutepdf.com" target="_blank">www.cutepdf.com</a> to ghostscript up a PDF but it's a work around for a bad system.&nbsp; Which is not to say DI will have a bad system but that anything that doesn't work in the way the user needs it to work is a bad system.Personally I think WotC killed the Paizo license with the intent to have the mags dead for many month so that when WotC used their official launch con, Winter Fantasy, to announce the DI that there would be an immediate demand.&nbsp; In 8-9 months, when Winter Fantasy rolls around, do you think everyone will still be so bitter or do you think they'll be jonesing for their fix?&nbsp; I'd also suspect that the DI's bait will be preview snippets of 4e, much as D&amp;D snared a lot of readership before 3e was released.&nbsp; &quot;Subscribe to the DI and get the behind the scenes look at 4e concepts!&nbsp; Interviews with the designers!&nbsp; Archetype character artwork!&nbsp; Upskirt shots of a Marileth!&nbsp; Hot die-on-die action!&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; (I assume Eric's granma would know what a Marileth is to get the joke.)The DI will be littered with &quot;pre-release&quot; software (aka&nbsp; beta software) that they use to fine-tune the end product but with the extra bonus advantage of getting paid for it.&nbsp; Oh, I imagine it will be a deal (&quot;Subscribe for a year now and we'll charge you for only ten months and give you access to the pre-release material!!!!&quot; but it still amounts to the masses subsidizing the DI process.&nbsp; Monte did a similar thing, albeit in an upfront manner, with the Ptolus preorders.&nbsp; &quot;Buy it before it's done and I'll guarantee I actually do it!&quot;&nbsp; Ptolus was a heck of a risk to Monte (800 page!!&nbsp; Holy crap!) but the DI really isn't to WotC. So...meh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 3497652, member: 9254"] He was actually pointing you to Pyramid, whose online catalog includes unlimited back issues. Without the ability to print the products or put them on a non-online device (aka a gaming laptop) they aren't useful. Now I could cheat and use something like [url]www.cutepdf.com[/url] to ghostscript up a PDF but it's a work around for a bad system. Which is not to say DI will have a bad system but that anything that doesn't work in the way the user needs it to work is a bad system. Personally I think WotC killed the Paizo license with the intent to have the mags dead for many month so that when WotC used their official launch con, Winter Fantasy, to announce the DI that there would be an immediate demand. In 8-9 months, when Winter Fantasy rolls around, do you think everyone will still be so bitter or do you think they'll be jonesing for their fix? I'd also suspect that the DI's bait will be preview snippets of 4e, much as D&D snared a lot of readership before 3e was released. "Subscribe to the DI and get the behind the scenes look at 4e concepts! Interviews with the designers! Archetype character artwork! Upskirt shots of a Marileth! Hot die-on-die action!" (I assume Eric's granma would know what a Marileth is to get the joke.) The DI will be littered with "pre-release" software (aka beta software) that they use to fine-tune the end product but with the extra bonus advantage of getting paid for it. Oh, I imagine it will be a deal ("Subscribe for a year now and we'll charge you for only [i]ten[/i] months [b]and[/b] give you access to the pre-release material!!!!" but it still amounts to the masses subsidizing the DI process. Monte did a similar thing, albeit in an upfront manner, with the Ptolus preorders. "Buy it before it's done and I'll guarantee I actually do it!" Ptolus was a heck of a risk to Monte (800 page!! Holy crap!) but the DI really isn't to WotC. So...meh. [/QUOTE]

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