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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1472886" data-attributes="member: 115">Ah, here we go again.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  As I recall, when Paizo took over, the option was thus - fold the magazines together or lose them both.  They intimated that neither had the readership necessary to sustain printing costs, even at the bimonthly level.  Now, if you're a conspiracy theorist, you could say they lied about that.  However, they have no reason to lie, because the logical business move is to dump both magazines because they're not making money.  Instead they worked to try and keep them both afloat. As for the rise in printing costs after they said they wouldn't, you know what that says to me?  The magazine was still not doing well enough to sustain it's publication.  Again, instead of doing the logical thing and just dumping the magazine, they took the necessary steps to keep it afloat, with full knowledge they would upset a percentage, possibly a significant percentage, of their readers. Finally, let's all keep one very important fact in mind.  If you're a member of this community, you are in the minority of role-players out there.  Despite what we might like to think, there are more people that don't know about ENWorld than there are people that do.  Just visiting this site, let alone being an active member of the community, indicates a level of dedication to the game above and beyond the norm.  What this means to me is that we're all more likely to be spending money on stuff like Dungeon/Polyhedron and other peripherals.  We're the minority though.  Most people are not spending money on D/P in the first place. Whether you like the magazine or not, Paizo has worked hard to keep Dungeon and Polyhedron alive.  Bashing them for the actions they had to take to keep both magazines alive is just petty and short-sighted.  If you really want to be constructive and help, get out your pen and paper and write down all the things you think could improve the magazine.  Send it to them.  No e-mail.  Physical snail mail.  Then go and pick up the magazine next time you see it on the stands.  After all, cancelling your subscription is only furthering the demise of both magazines.</blockquote>

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