My perspective is this: I subscribed to what is advertised as a monthly publication. I expect to receive one issue a month, every month. I hear you that you have had issues -- those are your issues, not mine. It is not common practice among publishers who offer subscription services to require subscribers to monitor emails, message boards, etc. in order to ensure that a monthly publication is indeed received monthly. Had I subscribed to what was advertised as an "irregularly published" magazine, I'd not be posting about my experience here.
My purpose is solely to relate an experience that I consider unsatisfactory so that other people may be aware of it. In my original post I do not disparage Paizo, and do not suggest that other people emulate my decision. I expressed an opinion (which I described as such) about a behavior, and suggested a motive for that behavior.
I request that further discussion focus on the behavior rather than me, my posts, or Paizo's reputation in general.
Actually, in my experience, monthly subscriptions for non-magazines only mean that you get 12 issues a year (if possible) which you did get. If you look at other non-magazine monthly subscriptions (comics come to mind and they are only 30 pages - on;y 18 of which is actual content) I have seen 3-4 come out in the same week so that they could keep thier 12 a year statement (note statement, not promise)My perspective is this: I subscribed to what is advertised as a monthly publication. I expect to receive one issue a month, every month. I hear you that you have had issues -- those are your issues, not mine. It is not common practice among publishers who offer subscription services to require subscribers to monitor emails, message boards, etc. in order to ensure that a monthly publication is indeed received monthly.
Fortunate, nothing. Having been a subscriber to Dungeon through the Polyhedron controversy and Paizo's efforts to make things better, as far as I'm concerned they've earned a lot of appreciation.