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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 3480543" data-attributes="member: 23937">Although I can't/won't go into the financial details... both magazines are profitable. I'm not sure where you got the information that Dragon was doing poorly... it certainly had a rough patch recently around issue #320 or so, but it's currently doing pretty good and is on an upward trend. Dungeon's been doing an upward trend since around #114 and the relaunch (getting rid of Polyhedron and producing a minimum of 3 adventures per issue PLUS regular Adventure Path Content proved to be the magic bullet there).I'm not sure what exactly WotC's plans are going forward, but the cancellation of the magazines wasn't because they were losing money. It was the end of our license, and Wizards decided not to renew it and to take the type of material that the magazines produced to an online model.Are things scary for Paizo in the future now that the magazines are going away? Sure... but they're also really exciting. No one's been laid off at Paizo as a result of this move, and we've in fact been hiring new employees to ramp up for what we've got planned with Pathfinder and GameMastery and whatnot. Things are actually looking pretty good, to be honest.I'll certainly miss working on Dungeon, but I'm really excited about what we're going to be able to do with Pathfinder. We at Paizo are still on good terms with WotC, and the possibility of doing other licensed projects with them in the future is still very much on the table. We would have been happy doing Dragon and Dungeon forever, but that wasn't in the cards. One thing's for sure... it's gonna be a wild ride for the rest of the year! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 3480543, member: 23937"] Although I can't/won't go into the financial details... both magazines are profitable. I'm not sure where you got the information that Dragon was doing poorly... it certainly had a rough patch recently around issue #320 or so, but it's currently doing pretty good and is on an upward trend. Dungeon's been doing an upward trend since around #114 and the relaunch (getting rid of Polyhedron and producing a minimum of 3 adventures per issue PLUS regular Adventure Path Content proved to be the magic bullet there). I'm not sure what exactly WotC's plans are going forward, but the cancellation of the magazines wasn't because they were losing money. It was the end of our license, and Wizards decided not to renew it and to take the type of material that the magazines produced to an online model. Are things scary for Paizo in the future now that the magazines are going away? Sure... but they're also really exciting. No one's been laid off at Paizo as a result of this move, and we've in fact been hiring new employees to ramp up for what we've got planned with Pathfinder and GameMastery and whatnot. Things are actually looking pretty good, to be honest. I'll certainly miss working on [i]Dungeon[/i], but I'm really excited about what we're going to be able to do with [i]Pathfinder[/i]. We at Paizo are still on good terms with WotC, and the possibility of doing other licensed projects with them in the future is still very much on the table. We would have been happy doing Dragon and Dungeon forever, but that wasn't in the cards. One thing's for sure... it's gonna be a wild ride for the rest of the year! :) [/QUOTE]

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