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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katerek" data-source="post: 238286" data-attributes="member: 5193">ACTUALLY RELATED TO THREAD TOPICThe themes in Dragon have been largely useful to me, but that is because I am a total marketing whore and a slave to mass advertising, so I buy everything WoTC publishes (except for novels).I do agree though that the themes could be toned down a bit.  Dedicate more of the magazine to "crunchy bits".  For my dollar, I want more crunch and less fluff.Also, if Dragon never published another short story in it's pages ever again, my personal existence would be all the better for it, but hey, I am just one guy.My favorite parts concerning new product tie-ins are the count downs.  When something new comes out and then all of sudden there is supplemental stuff in dragon the first thing in my head is "Why didn't they just put it in the supplement?"Basically, I buy dragon because of the games I play; I do not buy the games I play because of Dragon.  Does that make sense?Today's gamer is far more savvy than we were a few years ago.  I would be willing to wager that if you removed ALL WoTC advertisements, other than preview articles and whatnot, from the pages of dragon, you would notice almost no difference in sales of said item.We have the internet baby.  There isn't a single thing that is published that I haven't known about for AT LEAST two months when I finally hear mention of it in Dragon.You want focus?  Do a pulse check and find out who reads the magazine.  Send out a questionaire to your subscribers and offer a free issue or something.  Hell, offer a free annual to any one that mails the questionaire back to you if they pick it up as a product insert.  You will get feedback then.I'm rambling.  I'll shut up now.</blockquote>

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