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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 3470674" data-attributes="member: 939">I sent my letter of protest already.  I'm a book whore, as I've freely admitted.  I buy every single last thing WotC puts out on D&D each month.  I buy minis for use in roleplaying.  I buy multiple copies of books for convenience sake.  I have even multiple copies of the leatherbound special edition books.  In short, I'm WotC best customer - the customer they wish every gamer would be.  I also have every issue of both magazines.  And now, I'm so disgusted I wonder if I'll buy any more WotC products.  I certainly will no longer just buy them all, as I did, as part of not only my enjoyment of books, but as a loyal customer wanting to support the corporation that owns the hobby I love.  I've heard it said elsewhere that subscribers and readers of these magazines were only maybe 50,000 customers out of several million.  But I hope anyone who reads this who works for WotC is up at night sweating bullets over what I say next.  Perhaps there is a strong correlation between those who were the subcribers of those magazines and those who, like me, bought everything they put out.  Sure, there were lots of gamers who never or almost never bought Dragon or Dungeon.  But then those could very likely be the same gamers who only buy one or two books here and there.  In other words, it could be that those 50,000 represent the main bulk of WotC's profits as a whole, despite their not representing most gamers.  In which case, alienating one of us is like alienating 100 "average" customers.  E-content just isn't the same.  Beyond that, killing the magazines makes me not even want to look at whatever e-content they do.  And I'm not some computer-phobe - I used to be a full time professional computer programmer, and no, it wasn't Cobol and mainframes, it was PCs and web-based content.  I love the web and computers and use both extensively.  I'm exactly the sort of computer-saavy gamer they are probably hoping their e-content would appeal to.  And yet they already have lost me.</blockquote>

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