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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5429454" data-attributes="member: 64209">Good points, but I'll also agree with Shadzar below you.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don't mean to be obtuse about this, but I guess I can't really get my head around it.&nbsp;My response to the highlighed section of your post is: Why doesn't WotC&nbsp; just have the product ready a month in advance? Use foresight, have a general plan on how your magazine will be produced, perhaps you could interlock it with other gaming releases thematically?&nbsp;I don't see why everything you said couldn't be true with some foresight and some preparation. Writer needs an extra day? Ok! We have a month before this article is due out. You can miss our internal &quot;soft&quot; deadline! But we have hard deadlines too, and when we release the Table of Contents at the beginning of the month, the article darn well better have been in and proofed already, or you're not getting it published (or getting paid for it).&nbsp;In addition to my other concerns this seems to indicate to me a lack of vision for the magazines as a whole (a whole magazine rather than a hodgepodge/collection of individual articles). Add the lack of hard deadlines to the lack of compilation, and this fear seems a bit more justified (not 100% or anything, but moreso).&nbsp;&nbsp;I suppose, though, that some may say &quot;it's inevitable&quot; like how albums are not cohesive melodically thematic journeys...but collections of songs that you buy individually for 99 cents.&nbsp;I'm not sure I agree with this though, due to the subscription format. Eventually, the producers of the product KNOW you get the full &quot;album&quot; or, in this case, magazine. If they wanted to put the artistry of theme and interrelatedness between articles, they could do so, and in the end people who wanted to read a whole mag could see such things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 5429454, member: 64209"] Good points, but I'll also agree with Shadzar below you. I don't mean to be obtuse about this, but I guess I can't really get my head around it. My response to the highlighed section of your post is: Why doesn't WotC just have the product ready a month in advance? Use foresight, have a general plan on how your magazine will be produced, perhaps you could interlock it with other gaming releases thematically? I don't see why everything you said couldn't be true with some foresight and some preparation. Writer needs an extra day? Ok! We have a month before this article is due out. You can miss our internal "soft" deadline! But we have hard deadlines too, and when we release the Table of Contents at the beginning of the month, the article darn well better have been in and proofed already, or you're not getting it published (or getting paid for it). In addition to my other concerns this seems to indicate to me a lack of vision for the magazines as a whole (a whole magazine rather than a hodgepodge/collection of individual articles). Add the lack of hard deadlines to the lack of compilation, and this fear seems a bit more justified (not 100% or anything, but moreso). I suppose, though, that some may say "it's inevitable" like how albums are not cohesive melodically thematic journeys...but collections of songs that you buy individually for 99 cents. I'm not sure I agree with this though, due to the subscription format. Eventually, the producers of the product KNOW you get the full "album" or, in this case, magazine. If they wanted to put the artistry of theme and interrelatedness between articles, they could do so, and in the end people who wanted to read a whole mag could see such things. [/QUOTE]

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