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<blockquote data-quote="Dacileva" data-source="post: 4280073" data-attributes="member: 12957">So...It makes business sense to let a third party, who might have chosen not to go to the new version of your game at all, continue to publish the magazine intended as direct support of your game's current version?I loved the Paizo Dragon and Dungeon.&nbsp; I was sad to see them go.I'd have been sadder to have seen any of these events:
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">the magazines devolving into blandness due to anticipation for 4e</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">conflict between the PTB at Wizards and Paizo resulting in a bitter and hostile breach harming both parties, and likely permanently closing Paizo's doors</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">either company slavishly hanging onto magazines with dwindling readership due to supporting content for what some would see as a lame-duck edition</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">subtle hostility for the new edition in the magazines' editorials, reviews, and other content, resulting in published versions of some of the vitriol we've been subjected to on these boards and the far, far worse realms of other online boards</li>
</ul>You don't keep publishing ad copy for a product you intend to replace.People would have been MORE hostile, and more accusations of deception would have been thrown.&nbsp; Wizards made what I feel was probably the best call, all things considered.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dacileva, post: 4280073, member: 12957"] So... It makes business sense to let a third party, who [b]might[/b] have chosen not to go to the new version of your game at all, continue to publish the magazine intended as direct support of your game's current version? I [b]loved[/b] the Paizo [i]Dragon[/i] and [i]Dungeon[/i]. I was sad to see them go. I'd have been sadder to have seen any of these events:[list][*]the magazines devolving into blandness due to anticipation for 4e[*]conflict between the PTB at Wizards and Paizo resulting in a bitter and hostile breach harming both parties, and likely permanently closing Paizo's doors[*]either company slavishly hanging onto magazines with dwindling readership due to supporting content for what some would see as a lame-duck edition[*]subtle hostility for the new edition in the magazines' editorials, reviews, and other content, resulting in published versions of some of the vitriol we've been subjected to on these boards and the far, far worse realms of other online boards[/list] You don't keep publishing ad copy for a product you intend to replace. People would have been [b]MORE[/b] hostile, and more accusations of deception would have been thrown. Wizards made what I feel was probably the best call, all things considered. [/QUOTE]

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