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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHazle" data-source="post: 3466766" data-attributes="member: 46046">Another thing..I (and i assume others) buy Dragon and Dungeon from my FLGS. This allows me to look through each and decide if the content is something I'd like to have. Sometimes this wasn't possible due to plastic covers to protect inserts, but for the most part it worked out great. I ended out buying every issue of Dragon since #274 (the first 3rd edition issue). Not so much with Dungeon, I only own about 2 out of every 3. The option to make this decision at the store makes the purchase more personal. What if WOTC started only putting out electronic publication? No hard cover books, just PDFs or some other format. Sales would surely drop.Often these magazines were the sole reason for going to the store, and while browsing I would purchase other things. The limited quantities at my FLGS would induce me to get there the day of each release, not a factor with any other product. Without this, I will only go once a month, or less, and at my leisure, to sample the new releases to see if I need or what them. This is less time in the store with product in my face.Online content is a great idea. What Wizards is trying to do (whatever it might become) is innovative and progressive. It might not work, but you won't know until they try. But Dragon and Dungeon magazine wouldn't have offered competition for customer base. People who what content, buy content wherever they can find it. Create quality content and the customers will come to you. Eliminate a good content provider to create a vacuum so the new one will have more room in the niche just says that you are not confidant of your product.In my early gaming years, I would often borrow my friends' copies of Dragon to help enrich my worlds and characters. I just don't know how this will work with online or PDF content. I could make a copy (pirate) of what I have, but then my friend wouldn't have to purchase it if he liked it. If it is mostly online (like it is now), how will I access it in 5 years, I can still pull out Dragons from 5, 10, 20 years ago, not so much with online content. Without more information on what Wizards has to offer I don't have any further insites, except that the content needs to be several times better than what goes on the D&D site now, to make me what to pay for it.Thank you for your time.-Scott Hazle</blockquote>

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