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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3465445" data-attributes="member: 18363">Didn't WotC recently start a pay-for section on their website, or something like that? I seem to recall them having a poll some time ago regarding whether anyone would pay a regular fee for access to a section of the website having more content, etc. Perhaps this is the reason they've chosen to end Dungeon and Dragon. And it is definitely WotC that is choosing to end it. As with 3rd party Ravenloft, they chose not to grant the option of a renewal, and thus the company involved had to end its publication (in the former case Ravenloft, in this case a couple magazines that have become classic sources of information for D&D). Last time WotC forced the cancellation of an entire setting so that they could, some months later, release a Ravenloft Expedition book of their own that didn't need to be compatible with the published 3e version of the setting. This time it seems that perhaps they feel their online option will have more people buying into it if it does not have the competition of two popular magazines: Dungeon and Dragon. I'm guessing that the creation of Pathfinder is Paizo's way of coping with this loss, keeping up a magazine business despite the sudden and likely surprising (at the time they were informed of it) loss of the two magazines they have been publishing for years. As another before has stated, I cannot really see WotC's online attempt ever being half as interesting, as useful, as well written, etc as either Dungeon or Dragon are / were. I expect it will, if not fail, at least not receive the sudden increase in subscriptions that WotC is obviously hoping will occur with the end of Dungeon and Dragon. The saddest thing is that even if their online attempt petters out, I doubt they would then allow Paizo to again print Dungeon and Dragon. They are destroying a couple classics on a gamble, a hope that they can gather a few new subscribers of their own by removing the competition. I honestly hope Pathfinder does as well as its parents, Dungeon and Dragon. It deserves to do so well - if only as a fitting legacy of its predecessors.</blockquote>

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