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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 3484131" data-attributes="member: 22162">Why should WotC offer an apology? They've done nothing yet to apologize for.Sure, I'll miss Dragon and Dungeon as much as the rest of you. I've been subscribing for years and have tons of back issues. I look forward to getting both mags in the mail each week. Even my wife knows when to expect them because I can't shut up about them; she's happy for me when they do arrive. I'm really going to miss that.But WotC is planning to offer something cool in their place. Only time will tell now if that cool new product will live up to the hype as well as the function, utility and tradition they are leaving behind by putting Dragon and Dungeon to rest.I'm seriously surprised that so many choose to decry their new digital initiative before we even know what the heck it's going to look like. Or cost. I doubt I'll subscribe to their new service myself (I don't want to spend any more time sitting in front of a computer than I already do, though I might buy print collections if they are made available for a reasonable price), but I can see how it will have value for many peopleLike so many others, I was shocked and outraged last week when I heard the news. Now? Not so much. I'm moving past it, and looking forward to new things. Things like Pathfinder. Like spending more money on Dungeon Crawl Classics and D&D minis. The more I think about it, the more I see this as Wizards' way of saying, "Hey, atom, we love you but you're just not in our target demographic anymore." I guess I can deal with that.[In my head I see this funny conversation at the WotC office between two staffers at the water cooler:First Wizard: "We're killing Dragon and Dungeon? Are you crazy?"Second Wizard: "No, we're just moving the content into a brave new format, online no less, where more and more people expect to find this kind of content."First: "Man, those guys on the internet are going to be ticked off. They'll call for our heads to roll!"Second: "But we're offering something really cool in its place. Dragon and Dungeon won't be going away. They're just changing, evolving. Who can hate that?"First: "Yeah, but those grognards are gonna be steamed! They'll roast us alive"Second: "Well, we can't please everyone all the time. And it seems like no matter what we do, we can't ever please the grognards. They're always upset about something. But you know what, this digital initiative is going to be good for us and good for the industry. The younger kids who spend more money on our products are gonna think the new stuff is really neat. The grognards will either buy into it or they won't. Nothing we can say or do is gonna change that." First: "You're probably right."]</blockquote>

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