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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EditorBFG" data-source="post: 3470500" data-attributes="member: 24719">(Quoted from the above-referenced old post by FnordBear for new relevance.)I hadn't seen this yet. But it is certainly what we all had in mind. Clearly, competition for the above would include Dragon and Dungeon magazines, hence the cancellation.Getting to download 1 D&D adventure a month with your subscription seems like their big draw, aside from maybe the character generator, and there was no way Dungeon didn't compete with that.Like everyone says, they are competing with the MMO's. People seem to be indicating WotC will be replacing the magazines with an e-zine, but that does not seem to be the case; with this much stuff, it seems obvious that subscriber-only content would update daily, or at least more than once a week. They want customers to check in almost every day, the way MMO players do. It is not only about getting the money, but about keeping you on the hook.Apparently, the free content has already decreased; but with all the job openings at WotC for online stuff, there is no question devoting more effort to their web presence rather than less. There may be some previews, as I suggested, but that will probably soon be all a D&D player can get for free.I don't see Magic: the Gathering's web support going the same road-- the Magic content exists to keep an already somewhat profitable enterprise healthy, not to stave MMO competition. Clearly, WoW has WotC higher-ups soiling their drawers, and it seems rightly so, but I don't think they see MMO's as hurting CCG's the way they see them hurting D&D.WotC ain't a charity, OGL or no OGL it goes without saying they want a larger share of all the dollars currently going into gaming, both digital and "analog"-- White Wolf's answer seems to be becoming an MMO subsidiary. An important question is, what can the rest of the industry do to keep the customers the OGL brought them? Especially when 4E leaves them behind.</blockquote>

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